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MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 179 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

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

MIDDLE

middle, roraubs, See also:

RIVER

river), one of the See also:

Greek renderings of the earlier Semitic names for the river-See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country that stretches hands, or joined by cords, the patients sat in expectancy, and then See also:

MESMER, FRIEDRICH (or FRANZ) ANTON (1733–1815)

Mesmer, clothed in the See also:

DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress of a magician, glided amongst them, affecting this one by a See also:

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

touch, another by a look, and making " passes " with his See also:

hand towards a third. See also:

NERVOUS

Nervous ladies became hysterical or fainted; some men became convulsed, or were seized with palpitations of the See also:

heart or other bodily disturbances. The See also:

government appointed a See also:

COMMISSION (from Lat. commissio, committere)

commission of physicians and members of the See also:

Academy of Sciences to investigate these phenomena; See also:

Franklin and See also:

Baillie were members of this commission, and See also:

drew up an elaborate See also:

REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report admitting many of the facts, but contesting Mesmer's theory that there was an See also:

AGENT (from Lat. agere, to act)

agent called See also:

animal See also:

magnetism, and attributing the effects to physiological causes. Mesmer himself was undoubtedly a mystic; and, although the excitement of the See also:

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 See also:

fell into disrepute; it became a See also:

SYSTEM

system of downright jugglery, and Mesmer himself was denounced as a shallow empiric and impostor. He withdrew from See also:

Paris, and died at Meersburg in See also:

SWITZERLAND

Switzerland on the 5th of See also:

March 1815. He See also:

LEFT

left many disciples, the most distinguished of whom was the See also:

MARQUIS

marquis de Puysegur.

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