In New Orleans - Mesmerism - The Franco-Louisiana Connection: A Guide

Selected articles: The Daily Picayune (1840-1865)

Animal Magnetism
The Daily Picayune (1840-1865). New Orleans:Oct 3, 1841. p. 2 (1 pp.)
That the professors of Mesmerism have no power (unless the pin-sticking is allowed!)
The Daily Picayune (1840-1865). New Orleans, La.:Oct 22, 1841. p. 1 (1 pp.)

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ANIMAL MAGNETISM.--That the professors of Mesmerism have no power (unless the pin-sticking is allowed!) of ascertaining the truth or deception of a subject who is apparently entranced, is proved by the following adventure--a fact, and we must promise to our readers, thoroughly French in its idea and execution:--
More of Mesmerism
The Daily Picayune (1840-1865). New Orleans, La.:Nov 26, 1841. p. 2 (1 pp.)
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There are sensible people, of refined attainments and classical proficiency, who venture to express a belief that one man can he turned into a stone by another, and that said stone shall be able to see through a stone wall. We know something about the manner in which some of these professors of Mesmerism manage their business, but we shall very frankly confess...
Peter Prose's Pilgrimage:Extraordinary Achievement in MAGNETIC CLAIRVOYANCE!! MESMERISM TRIUMPHANT!
The Daily Picayune (1840-1865). New Orleans, La.:Oct 5, 1841. p. 2 (1 pp.)
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Once upon a time, which time was a very recent evening in St. Louis, two droll youngsters, not long escaped from their teens, might have been observed in close and mysterious confab, issuing from the Lilliputian door-way of the Planters' House, on Fourth street.
Extraordinary Experiments in Mesmerism
The Daily Picayune (1840-1865). New Orleans, La.:Jul 21, 1842. p. 2 (1 pp.)
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The singular scepticism that, strange to say, is still in existence regarding Animal Magnetism, we think must give way at length before the extraordinary effects produced by Mesmeric means, of which we are now about to give a strict and faithful relation.

Electro-Biology, on which lectures are nightily delivered at Armory Hall, by Theophilus Fiske.

Electro-biology - This new science invented by Mr. Theophilus Fiske, of Philadelphia, appears to cast in the shade all the wonders of mesmerism and to supersede in many cases the employment of ether and chloroform for deadening sensibility. We have seen a certificate from a respectable practitioner in this city, wherein he states that he extracted three roots and a caried tooth from a lady, after the latter had been operated on by a pupil of Mr. Fiske's for the purpose of paralyzing the gum. The lady barely felt the operation, and was sensible to no pain at all. Such, it seems, are some of the well authenticated experiments of Electro-Biology, on which lectures are nightily delivered at Armory Hall, by Theophilus Fiske.

Article 11 -- Electro-biology
The Daily Picayune (1840-1865). New Orleans, La.:Mar 14, 1850. p. 6 (1 pp.)
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- This new science invented by Mr. Theophilus Fiske, of Philadelphia, appears to cast in the shade all the wonders of mesmerism and to supersede in many cases the employment of ether and chloroform for deadening sensibility. We have seen a certificate from a respectable practioner in this city, wherein he states that he extracted three roots and a caried tooth from a lady, after the latter had been operated on by a pupil of Mr. Fiske's for the purpose of paralyzing the gum. The lady barely felt the operation, and was esnsible to no pain at all. Such, it seems, are some of the well authenticated experiments of Electro-Biology, on which lectures are mightly delivered at Armory Hall, by Theophilus Fiske.
Electro-Biology Not Mesmerism / THEOPHILUS FISKE
The Daily Picayune (1840-1865). New Orleans, La.:Mar 29, 1850. p. 6 (1 pp.)
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Messrs. Editers--In the kind notices which you have taken of my public lectures and experiments, you have sometimes spoken of the science I am now advocating as if you supposed at to be mesmerism. I find that several other enlightened and intelligent minds have been similarly impressed; the reason of this is ... they see that similar effect are produced by both sciences, and looking only at the results, and not at the cause (or causes) that is active in their production, the very... Source type: Historical Newspaper

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Chapter 6. Spiritualism's Dissident Visionaries

Page 198 ... mesmerist society in New Orleans, the Société du Magnétisme de la

Page 199 ... leading proponents in France and editor of the Journal du magnetisme. In relationship between God and the believer, ...

Page 200 ... In 1853, du Potet published Robert Owen's mesmerist experiences in the Journal du magnetisme and offered an account of his changeover. ...

Page 319... ... 31, 2oo Jim Crow laws, 281-82 Johnson, Andrew, 255, 263 Joubert, Blanc F., 227, 268 Journal du magnetisme, 199-201 Juen, Andres, 76 Kansas-Nebraska Act, ...

Page 324 ... ... 124-26, i33 La Societe des Artisans, 90, 94 Societ£ du Magnetisme de la Nouvelle- Orleans, 198, 2oo Societe Frangaise pour 1'Abolition de 1'Esclavage, ...

Revolution, romanticism, and the Afro-Creole protest tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868
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Selected articles: The Daily Picayune (1840-1865)

Electro-Biology, on which lectures are nightily delivered at Armory Hall, by Theophilus Fiske.

Revolution, romanticism, and the Afro-Creole protest tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868

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