Franz Mesmer
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Franz Anton Mesmer was a German physician with an interest in astronomy. He theorized the existence of a process of natural energy transference occurring between all animate and inanimate objects; thi
Print of Franz Anton Mesmer (Musée de la Révolution française)
De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum
Mesmer's grave in the cemetery in Meersburg, Germany.
Maria Theresia von Paradis
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Maria Theresia Paradis was an Austrian musician and composer who lost her sight at an early age, and for whom her close friend Mozart may have written his Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat major. She wa
Franz Mesmer
…the emergence of dynamic psychiatry. The scandal that followed Mesmer's only partial success in curing the blindness of an 18-year-old musician, Maria Theresia Paradis, led him to leave Vienna in 1777. In February 1778, Mesmer moved to Paris, rented an apartment in a part of the city preferred by the wealthy and…
Portrait drawing of Paradis