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BRAID, JAMES. Neurypnology; or, The Rationale of Nervous Sleep, considered in Relation to Animal Magnetism. Half-title. Small 8vo, original cloth, rebacked retaining original backstrip; dampstaining in inner corners throughout, most conspicuously at beginning, scattered early pencil marginalia, dedication leaf misbound at end. London, 1843
first edition of the first full-length scientific account of hypnotism, a term coined by Braid the year before to replace the unscientific "mesmerism" and "animal magnetism." Crabtree 465; Garrison-Morton 4993; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 906-910; Norman 324; Rieber & Gach 60.
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