Word: mesmeromania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...told the king "for the purposes I have in mind, the sum of four or five hundred thousand francs is neither here nor there. My discoveries and myself must be endowed with a generous hand. . . ." Parsimonious Louis declined, whereupon the money was raised for Mesmer by private subscription. Mesmeromania became the rage. He continued practicing, though without official recognition, until the French Revolution drove him, discredited and poor, out of France into obscurity. On the shores of Lake Constance he still worked on, mesmerized his own declining years with music from his glass harmonica. Though not fully understanding...
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