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Sketching Alan Rickman's lovely eyes during my free time~

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“Animal Magnetism”, illustration from A Key to Physic, and the Occult Sciences (1794) by Ebenezer Sibley.⠀ ⠀ Featured in our essay on Benjamin Franklin and Franz Mesmer exploring how a craze for sessions of “animal magnetism” in late 18th-century Paris led to the randomised placebo-controlled and double-blind clinical trials we know and love today.⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ .⠀ #animalmagnetism #science #pseudoscience #benjaminfranklin #placebo #mesmer #Franzmesmer https://www.instagram.com/p/B1zR4E_nMx6/?igshid=1vxd8p01uwopm

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He believed the universe had invisible currents. He believed humans could control them.

In candlelit Paris salons, Franz Mesmer created what would later become hypnosis — but first, it was scandal.

Was animal magnetism real… or the birth of psychological suggestion?