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BRAID, James (1795?-1860). Satanic Agency and Mesmerism Reviewed, in a Letter to the Rev. H. McNeile...of Liverpool...Manchester: Simms and Dinham, Galt and Anderson; Liverpool: Willmer and Smith, 1842.
12o in half-sheets, 6 leaves (171 x 109 mm). Modern blue wrappers; half morocco slipcase. Provenance: Adam Crabtree, author of Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism and Psychical Research 1766-1925 (1988).
FIRST EDITION of Braid's rare first exposition of his theory of hypnotism, written in response to a sermon delivered against him by the Rev. Hugh McNeile; with a holograph revision (partially cropped) by the author on p. 3. "Braid, a Manchester surgeon, began a scientific investigation of mesmerism in the early 1840s, and soon became convinced that the effects produced did not depend on a physical 'magnetic influence' passing from practitioner to subject, but instead were subjective phenomena caused by physiological changes in the person mesmerized. (He would later reject his early physiological theory for others that gave greater recognition to suggestibility and psychic state.)...This pamphlet contains one of the first uses of Braid's new terms '[neuro]hypnotism,' 'hypnotic sleep,' and 'hypnotise,' which Braid coined to replace the unscientific terms used by believers in animal magnetism..." (Norman). VERY RARE. Crabtree 450 (noting that only two copies - including this Norman copy - are known); Garrison-Morton 4992.3; Zilboorg-Henry, pp. 356-357; Norman 323.
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FIRST EDITION of Braid's rare first exposition of his theory of hypnotism, written in response to a sermon delivered against him by the Rev. Hugh McNeile; with a holograph revision (partially cropped) by the author on p. 3. "Braid, a Manchester surgeon, began a scientific investigation of mesmerism in the early 1840s, and soon became convinced that the effects produced did not depend on a physical 'magnetic influence' passing from practitioner to subject, but instead were subjective phenomena caused by physiological changes in the person mesmerized. (He would later reject his early physiological theory for others that gave greater recognition to suggestibility and psychic state.)...This pamphlet contains one of the first uses of Braid's new terms '[neuro]hypnotism,' 'hypnotic sleep,' and 'hypnotise,' which Braid coined to replace the unscientific terms used by believers in animal magnetism..." (Norman). VERY RARE. Crabtree 450 (noting that only two copies - including this Norman copy - are known); Garrison-Morton 4992.3; Zilboorg-Henry, pp. 356-357; Norman 323.