This Month in Anesthesia History: May 1734 May 23: Franz Anton Mesmer was born. "Under the protection of Marie Antoinette, this Viennese physician received a grant of 30,000 francs from Louis XVI to study the magnetic influence of the stars on human beings. His Memoire sur la decouverte du magnetisme animal[1779] described cures with magnets and hypnosis." [Accardo, The Medical Almanac] Mesmer died in March, 1815. In the years before ether's anesthetic properties were demonstrated by Morton in 1846, such British surgeons as James Esaile, John Elliotson and James Braid experimented extensively with "mesmerism" as a method of surgical pain relief and published various accounts of their successes. http://ahahq.org/Calendar/May.php
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