braidismn.
/ˈbreɪdɪz(ə)m/ Medicine.
The process of producing sleep or trance by causing the patient's attention to be intensely concentrated on some visual object; this process, which had long been practised under the name of mesmerism n., was first scientifically applied, and its effects accounted for, by Dr. James Braid in 1842. Braid's own name for the process was hypnotism n., which is still the one most frequent in scientific use; the popular term mesmerism n. is not employed by medical writers, as it is understood to imply an explanation of the phenomena differing from that of Braid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the paranormal > [noun] > mesmerism
animal magnetism1784
magnetism1784
mesmerism1784
magnetizing1787
magnetization1801
zoomagnetism1824
tellurism1832
hypnotism1842
pathetism1843
zoistic magnetism1849
electrobiology1850
electropsychology1850
biologism1852
statuvolism1871
statuvolence1873
braidism1882
hypnosis1882
biomagnetism1887
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > hypnotic state > [noun] > forms of hypnotism
mesmerism1784
biology1850
electrobiology1850
braidism1882
1882 Bastian in Quain Dict. Med. 132 Braidism certainly deserves more attention than it has received.
1882 Bastian in Quain Dict. Med. 973 The too ready adoption of hypnosis or Braidism may do harm rather than good.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
<
n.1882