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Lettre d'un médecin de la Faculté de Paris a un médecin du College de Londres : ouvrage dans lequel on prouve contre M. Mesmer que le magnétisme animal n'existe pas / [Anon].

Nicolas Bergasse, Franz Anton Mesmer, Faculté de Paris., College de Londres. · 1781 · A La Haye : [publisher not identified], [1781] · 2 pictures

An 1781 French pamphlet, published at The Hague and anonymously attributed, that argues against Franz Anton Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism and is aimed at a medical readership in Paris and London. Its two pictures are small printed ornaments, and a designer could take from them the dense, symmetrical scrollwork of eighteenth-century French rococo decoration, with foliage, cartouches, and pendant forms that work as headpieces or tailpieces.

Mesmerism · Animal magnetism

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