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ODYLIC FORCE

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 11 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ODYLIC FORCE , a See also:

term once in See also:vogue to explain the phenomenon of See also:hypnotism (q.v.). In 1845 considerable See also:attention was See also:drawn to the announcement by See also:Baron von See also:Reichenbach of a so-called new " imponderable " or " See also:influence " See also:developed by certain crystals, magnets, the human See also:body, associated with See also:heat, chemical See also:action, or See also:electricity, and existing throughout the universe, to which he gave the name of odyl. Persons sensitive to odyl saw luminous phenomena near the poles of magnets, or even around the hands or heads of certain persons in whose bodies the force was supposed to he concentrated. In See also:Britain an impetus was given to this view of the subject by the See also:translation in 1850 of Reichenbach's Researches on See also:Magnetism, &c., in relation to Vital Force, by Dr See also:Gregory, See also:professor of See also:chemistry in the university of See also:Edinburgh. These Researches show many of the phenomena to be of the same nature as those described previously by F. A. See also:Mesmer, and even See also:long before Mesmer's See also:time by See also:Swedenborg.

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