From Mesmer to Christian Science; a short history of mental healing
by Frank Podmore
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For most of his life a clerk in the post office, Frank Podmore (1856-1910) was a prolific author on psychical research. As an undergraduate Podmore became interested in spiritualism, and he joined the British National Association of Spiritualists. Eventually disillusioned by that society, Podmore co-founded several organisations: the Progressive Association (in 1882); the Fellowship of the New Life (1883); and, spurred by his desire to see political change, the Fabian Society (1884). show more Podmore's membership in the Society for Psychical Research influenced his activities and interests, and he spent the next twenty years investigating and writing on psychical phenomena. Podmore's two-volume Modern Spiritualism (also reissued in this series) is a source for this 1909 work, which 'constituted the most scholarly history of mesmerism and its offshoots to that date', according to one reviewer. This work will interest historians of science and medicine, and scholars of Victorian religious movements. show lessTags
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- Original title
- Mesmerism and Christian Science
- Alternate titles
- From Mesmer to Christian Science
- Original publication date
- 1909
- Disambiguation notice
- first published as Mesmerism and Christian Science (1909), later as From Mesmer to Christian Science (1965)
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