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BIRNSTIEL, Franz Heinrich Gesammelte Akten-Stücke zu Aufdeckung des Geheimnisses des sogenannten Thierischen Magnetismus.Marburg, Academischen Buchhandlung, 1787 Small 8vo, mm. 170x100; Contemporary binding in boards; pp. 96. slight uniform browning.
Original edition. The author exposes, in an epistle, to Ernst Gottfried Baldinger, the theories of animal magnetism from the point of view of their therapeutic efficacy. Crabtree: “Birnstiel was a well-known professor of medicine at Marburg; Baldinger was a physician. This collection of letters is one of the earliest German works that critically examines the nature of animal magnetism.” Murhard, n. 555; Adam Crabtree, Animal Magnetism, Early Hypnotism, and Psychical Research, 1766 – 1925 An Annotated Bibliography, 1988, n. 163.