A man hypnotizing four people for the camera back when hypnosis was extensively practiced by reputable physicians for therapeutic use both as a form of anesthesia and as a cure for disease, c. 1845.

A man hypnotizing four people for the camera back when hypnosis was extensively practiced by reputable physicians for therapeutic use both as a form of anesthesia and as a cure for disease, c. 1845.

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