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Robison, Robert (medicine) and mesmerism (iou)


Robison, Robert (medicine)


Robison, Robert
<person> English chemist, 1884-1941.

See: Robison ester, Robison ester dehydrogenase, Robison-Embden ester.


mesmerism (iou)



mesmerism noun. L18.
[from F. A. Mesmer, Austrian physician (1734-1815), who popularized the practice + -ISM.]
The process or practice of inducing a hypnotic state, usu. accompanied by insensibility to pain and muscular rigidity, by the influence of an operator over the will of a patient; the state so induced; fig. fascination. Also, belief in this process; an influence producing such a state. Formerly also called animal magnetism, magnetism.
mesmerist noun a person who practises mesmerism; (occas.) a believer in mesmerism: M19.