biography
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| lived:
| (?1795–1860)
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| biography:
| Surgeon and hypnotist, born in Rylawhouse, Fife, E Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University, and spent most of his life practising surgery in Manchester. In 1841 he attended a popular demonstration of ‘Mesmerism’ and devoted much of the rest of his working life to investigating the phenomena associated with what he himself first called neurohypnotism, later shortened to hypnotism. |
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