Statuvolism
https://archive.org/details/statuvolismorart00fahn
Self-hypnosis.
or, Artificial somnambulism, hitherto called mesmerism or animal magnetism :
containing a brief historical survey of Mesmer's operations and the examination of the same by the French commissioners :
phreno-somnambulism, or, the exposition of phreno-magnetism and neurology :
a new view and division of the phrenological organs into functions, with descriptions of their nature and qualities, etc., in the senses and faculties, and a full and accurate description of the various phenomena belonging to this state :
including its division into two distinct conditions, viz., the waking and sleeping, with practical instructions how to enter and awake from either :
the identity of these conditions with other states and mysteries, together with an account of several obstetrical cases delivered while in this state :
the proper method of preparing subjects for surgical operations, their management during and after the same, and the latest and best method of curing diseases, etc., in those persons who are in that condition
Animal magnetism
Magnétisme animal
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magn%C3%A9tisme_animal
§4 Influence et postérité du magnétisme animal
4.1 Du magnétisme animal à l'hypnose
4.2 Somnambules et voyants
4.3 Le magnétisme animal et la politique
4.4 Le magnétisme animal et la philosophie
