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Tracts in Medicine. viz.................................................................
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Rapport des Commissaires sur la Magnetisme animal.
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Rapport des Commissaires de la societé de la medecine
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sur la magnetisme animale.
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8
vo.
Rob Anti-Syphilitique.
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Sur l’usage des vegetaux exotiques dans les maladies
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veneriennes par Dupau.
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1815 Catalogue, page 42. no. 65, and no. 81, Tracts in Medicine, 8vo animal magnetism, Syphilis.
The two entries in the 1815 catalogue may indicate that Jefferson had the tracts bound in two volumes, though his own entry implies that they were bound together in one volume. A book lettered
Tracts in Medicine was bound by John March in August, 1805, price 62 ½ cents.
These tracts are entered without price on the undated manuscript catalogue.
Rapport des Commissaires sur la Magnetisme animal.
i.
Rapport des Commissaires chargés par le Roi, de l’examen du Magnétisme Animal. Imprimé par ordre du Roi. A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1784.
First Edition. Sm. folio. 34 leaves.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, viii, 516.
Ford 357.
In a letter dated February 19, 1791, to William Smith, the author of the
Eulogium on the death of Benjamin Franklin
, written shortly after the death of the latter, Jefferson, in describing Franklin’s activities in France mentioned: “
. . . The animal magnetism too, of the maniac Mesmer, had just recieved it’s death’s wound from his hand in conjunction with
his brethren of the learned committee, appointed to unveil that compound of fraud & folly . . .
”
This
Rapport was signed by Benjamin Franklin, Bailly, le Roy, Lavoisier and several others. The commission, headed by Franklin, was appointed
by the King to investigate the theory of Mesmer, who had established himself in Paris in 1778. A heated pamphlet discussion
followed.
Friedrich Anton Mesmer, 1733-1815, Austrian doctor and inventor of mesmerism.
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Rapport des Commissaires de la societé de la medecine sur la magnetisme animale.
ii.
Rapport des commissaires de la Société royale de médicine, nommés par le roi pour faire l’examen du magnétisme animal. Imprimé
par ordre du roi.
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie Royale,
1784.
Surgeon General’s Library Catalogue I, viii, 519.
This Rapport was signed by Poissonnier, Caille, Mauduyr and Andry.
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Rob Anti-Syphilitique.
iii. BOYVEAU-LAFFECTEUR,
Denys.
Observations sur l’histoire et les effets du Rob Anti-Syphilitique du sieur Boyveau Laffecteur . . . A
Paris:
P. D. Pierres,
1781.
