Le "magnétisme animal" : étude critique et expérimentale sur l'hypnotisme ou sommeil nerveaux provoqué chez les sujets sains léthargie, catalepsie, somnambulisme, suggestions, etc.
A French medical study of hypnotism and animal magnetism by physician Fernand Bottey, published in Paris in 1884 for doctors and scientific readers interested in trance, catalepsy and somnambulism. Its four plates are photographic portraits of a woman in staged poses and a bookplate bearing the motto Labor Omnia Vincit Improbus, so a designer could take from them the stark dark-ground studio photography of the period and the Victorian dress and posing.
