In 1779, Franz Anton Mesmer wrote an 88-page book, Memoire sur la Decouverte du Magnetisme animal, to which he appended his famous 27 Propositions.
Realising its medico-historical importance and tempted by a layman\'s vanity to undertake the Translation himself, he eventually decided that the task could only be accomplished by an expe.
Frankau obtained, on loan from a private library, an original edition of Mesmer\'s Memoire sur la Decouverte de MagnEtism Animal.
While undertaking research, G.
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In 1779, Franz Anton Mesmer wrote an 88-page book, Memoire sur la Decouverte du Magnetisme animal, to which he appended his famous 27 Propositions