animal magnetism
purported force in living things
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- Discoverer or inventor: Franz Anton Mesmer[1]
- Instance of: alternative medicine[2], branch of pseudoscience[3]
- Subclass of: non-verbal hypnosis[4]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[5], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[6], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[7], The American Cyclopædia[8], The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[9]
- Different from: hypnosis[10]