Ahvaz
Ahvaz or Ahwaz , city (1991 pop. 724,653), SW Iran, on the Karun River. It is an oil center, a transportation hub, and an industrial city that has petrochemical, textile, and food-processing industries. An ancient city, Ahvaz was rebuilt (3d cent. AD) by Ardashir I, who named it Hormuzd-Ardashir. In the 4th cent. Ahvaz became the seat of a bishopric, and a large church was built there. It was an important Arab trading center in the 12th and 13th cent. but later declined. The discovery of oil nearby in the early 20th cent. restored the city to its former importance. The new part of Ahvaz, the administrative and industrial center, is on the right bank of the Karun, but the population still is concentrated in the old section on the left bank. Ahvaz is linked by road, rail, and oil pipeline to ports on the Persian Gulf.
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Friedrich Anton Mesmer
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Friedrich Anton Mesmer , or Franz Anton Mesmer , 1734-1815, German physician. He studied in Vienna. His interest in "animal magnetism" developed into a system of treatment through hypnotism that was called mesmerism. It seems now that Mesmer...
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Mesmer, Franz
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Mesmer, Franz Friedrich Anton ) (1734–1815) Austrian physician. Mesmer's interest in ‘animal magnetism’ led to his development of mesmerism ( hypnosis ) as a therapeutic treatment. Ridiculed by fellow scientists, Mesmer died in obscurity.
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Hypnotherapy
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders
...development of what has become modern hypnosis is Friedrich Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician. One day, Mesmer watched a magician on a street in Paris...magnets. Fascinated by the demonstration, Mesmer believed the magnets had power of their...
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mesmerism
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
mesmerism (production of) a hypnotic state in a person by exercise of another's will-power. XIX. f. name of Friedrich Anton Mesmer (1733–1815), Austrian physician + -ISM . Hence mesmerize XIX.
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hypnotism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...coined by James Braid in 1842 to describe a phenomenon previously known as animal magnetism or mesmerism (see Mesmer , Friedrich Anton). Superficially resembling sleep, it is generally induced by the monotonous repetition of words and gestures...
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