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The alarm of the French government and the medical profession at the wide-spread popularity of animal magnetism led the King, Louis XVI, to appoint two commissions to investigate its claims in March, 1784. One consisted of four doctors from the Faculty of Medicine and five members of the Academy of Sciences, which included Benjamin Franklin, then living in Paris as a representative of the fledgling United States government. The commission investigated animal magnetism as practiced by one of Mesmer’s early adherents, Charles d’Eslon, who welcomed the investigation, which Mesmer opposed. This disagreement brought about a rupture between the two. Shown here is the title page of the Faculty/Academy report, published in August, 1784.
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