The illustrated practical mesmerist : curative and scientific / by William Davey.
An 1889 London manual by William Davey, published by J. Burns, teaching the practice of mesmerism for curative and scientific purposes. Its engravings show seated subjects being treated by a practitioner through hand passes and touch to the head, one captioned 'Dumbness', with simple line-drawn figures in period dress against a tan ground; a designer might take its plain diagrammatic staging of gesture and posture as a model for instructional illustration.
