•He consequently began a series of experiments upon his relatives and friends, and found that he could soon produce a similar trance state quite easily by inducing them to fix their eyes upon a bright object, such as his lancet case. Needless to say his offer was rejected and his paper branded as ridiculous, together with his reports of cures of contractures and disorders of sensibility such as deafness through the use of mesmerism.
•He also discovered that he obtained excellent results when he used the trance for medical and surgical purposes, and in 1842 he offered to read a paper on the subject for the British association which was meeting in Manchester.
•Needless to say his offer was rejected and his paper branded as ridiculous, together with his reports of cures of contractures and disorders of sensibility such as deafness through the use of mesmerism.
•He maintained that animal ,magnetism was a form of sleep brought on by the total concentration of the subject and so he called the condition Hypnos, after the name of the Greek God.
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