Mesmerized : powers of mind in Victorian Britain / Alison Winter.
Across Victorian Britain, in castles and cottages, rectories and pubs, and even hospitals and churches, thousands of women and hundreds of men were put into mesmeric trances. Apparently reasonable human beings twisted into bizarre postures, called out in unknown languages, and placidly bore assaults...
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Chicago :
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©1998.
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BF1125 .W56 1998
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