And now a page from our “Sunday Morning” Almanac: March 5th, 1815, 202 years ago today … the day German-born Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer died at the age of 80. Mesmer believed he could harness a force he ...
Wearing gold slippers and a lavender silk robe, physician Franz Anton Mesmer moved slowly around the silent, dimly lit room while waving a metal wand. A baquet, a large oak tub of magnetized water, ...