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On August 11, 1784, a report was delivered to Louis XVI, King of France, by the so-called Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism, consisting of two independent committees of physicians and scientists (including Benjamin Franklin), tasked with clarifying the existence or non-existence of an invisible magnetic fluid that surrounded living beings and whose alterations were thought to cause diseases. This fluid was the basis of a therapeutic doctrine centered on its manipulation and treatment, known as mesmerism, a name derived from the German physician who formulated it, Franz Anton Mesmer. The commission concluded that there was no evidence for it and discredited the theory.
Mesmer was born in 1734 in Iznang, a town in Swabia, a region then part of the Holy Roman Empire. He studied at the Jesuit universities of Dillingen and Ingolstadt before pursuing medicine at the University of Vienna, where he graduated in 1759. He settled in Vienna and practiced medicine, publishing in 1766 a thesis that, at least in part, plagiarized an English physician and friend of Newton, Richard Mead. Titled De planetarum influxu in corpus humanum, it theorized about medical astrology, that is, the influence of the Moon and planets on the human body and its diseases, already showing an in
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Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
1784 French scientific bodies
The Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism involved two entirely separate and independent French Royal Commissions, each appointed by Louis XVI in 1784, that were conducted simultaneously by a committee composed of four physicians from the Paris Faculty of Medicine (Faculté de médecine de Paris) and five scientists from the Royal Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences) (i.e., the "Franklin Commission", named for Benjamin Franklin), and a second committee composed of five physicians from the Royal Society of Medicine (Société Royale de Médecine) (i.e., the "Society Commission").
Each Commission took five months to complete its investigations. The "Franklin" Report was presented to the King on 11 August 1784 – and was immediately published and very widely circulated throughout France and neighbouring countries – and the "Society" Report was presented to the King five days later on 16 August 1784.
The "Franklin Commission's" investigations are notable as a very early "classic" example of a systematic controlled trial, which not only applied "sham" and "genuine" procedures to patients with "sham" and "genuine" disorders, but, significantly, was the first to use the "blindfolding" of both the inve
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Animal magnetism
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