MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

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MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora) .la, sc. xthpa or Eupta, from , duos,

middle

MIDDLE

, roraubs, river), one of the

Greek

GREEK
GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

renderings of the earlier Semitic names for the river-country that stretches
hands, or joined by cords, the patients sat in expectancy, and then Mesmer, clothed in the dress of a magician, glided amongst them, affecting this one by a

touch

TOUCH (derived through Fr. toucher from a common Teutonic and Indo-Germanic root, cf. " tug," " tuck," O. H. Ger. zucchen, to twitch or draw)

, another by a look, and making " passes " with his hand towards a third.

Nervous

NERVOUS

ladies became hysterical or fainted; some men became convulsed, or were seized with palpitations of the heart or other bodily disturbances. The government appointed a commission of physicians and members of the

Academy

ACADEMY,
GREEK
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
ACADEMY, ROYAL

of Sciences to investigate these phenomena; Franklin and Baillie were members of this commission, and drew up an elaborate report admitting many of the facts, but contesting Mesmer's theory that there was an agent called animal magnetism, and attributing the effects to physiological causes. Mesmer himself was undoubtedly a mystic; and, although the excitement of the time led him to indulge in mummery and sensational effects, he was honest in the belief that the phenomena produced were real, and called for further investigation. For a time, however, animal magnetism

fell

FELL
FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

into disrepute; it became a

system

SYSTEM

of downright jugglery, and Mesmer himself was denounced as a shallow empiric and impostor. He withdrew from Paris, and died at Meersburg in Switzerland on the 5th of

March

MARCH
MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in
French
appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the
regular
- REGULAR
tread of a soldier: cf.
MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
MARCH, EARLS OF
MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

1815. He left many disciples, the most distinguished of whom was the marquis de Puysegur.

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