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The fashionable study in Paris at this time, and that which engrossed most of those who had no business to attend to, was Mesmerism-a mysterious science, badly defined by its discoverers, who did not wish to render it too plain to the eyes of the people. Dr. Mesmer, who had given to it his own name, was then in Paris, as we have already heard from Marie Antoinette.
This Doctor Mesmer deserves a few words from us, as his name was then in all mouths.