About Hypnotherapy (continued)

18th Century Hypnosis

Hypnosis in the 18th Century - Franz Mesmer.

Now, if we shoot forward, to the 18th century, Franz Mesmer is born - a man that most people will have heard of, and if not, then surely of the terms 'Mesmerism', or 'Mesmerised'. 

These were terms coined to describe the influence of his famously penetrating stares.

Originally a medical doctor, he came to believe in the use of devices such as magnets, to cure people, although he did stress that magnets didn't have to be used, and that other substances would do, such as - wood, glass, or even water. 

Indeed, people today still subscribe to the theory that magnets hold extra-special curative properties. He was a very charismatic man, and even by modern standards, a bit of an eccentric, but, there's no doubt, that using whatever method he chose to practice with, he was really indulging in what would be a hypnotherapist's use of suggestion, only he combined it with an early form of group therapy.

Now, the person that first coined the word hypnotism, was James Braid, a Scottish surgeon of very high repute. When he first witnessed hypnotism, way back in 1841, he was not very impressed, and believed some kind of trickery to be involved. He went to see a second demonstration, only this time, he went up to the rostrum to investigate the subject, which was a 'Mesmerised' girl. 

He tested her by forcing a pin beneath a finger-nail, and was most impressed when she showed no pain, and afterwards conducted his own experiments, whereupon he finally became an ardent supporter of hypnotism.

Another famous person from the history of hypnosis, was James Esdaile. He successfully used hypnosis in numerous operations in two hospitals in India, around the 1840's. By the time he left India, he had carried out thousands of painless operations and 300 of these were major ones, 19 were amputations.

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