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BRAID, JAMES. Neurypnology; or, The Rationale of Nervous Sleep, considered in Relation to Animal Magnetism. [2], xxii, 265, [1] pages, including half-title. 8vo, 169x106 mm, original green cloth, minor blistering and few stains on covers; endpapers darkened with contemporary owner's inscription on front free endpaper, otherwise a crisp, clean copy; cloth folding case. London & Edinburgh: John Churchill et al., 1843
first edition of the first full-length scientific account of hypnotism, a term coined by Braid the year before to replace "mesmerism" and "animal magnetism." Garrison-Morton 4993; Hunter & Macalpine, pages 906-910; Norman 324.
