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Manuscript copy of Mesmer’s dissertation presented to the University of Vienna for the degree of doctor of medicine. Mesmer's purpose was "to demonstrate that the celestial bodies act on our earth. Furthermore, that all things which are here act upon these celestial bodies in turn." He called the force acting upon living bodies “animal gravity”; later, based on his work with magnets, he modified this to "animal magnetism". In his dissertation, Mesmer writes "One must not think that the influence of the stars on us only has to do with diseases. The harmony established between the astral plane and the human plane ought to be admired as much as the ineffable effect of universal gravitation by which our bodies are harmonized, not in a uniform and monotonous manner, but as a musical instrument furnished with several strings, the exact tone resonates which is in unison with a given tone. Likewise, human bodies react to stellar configurations with which they are joined by a given harmony." (Translation from Bloch, 1980.)
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