Those Patients Who Responded Most Strongly to Mesmer's Magnetic Inductions

question 26

Multiple Choice

Those patients who responded most strongly to Mesmer's magnetic inductions:

• A) passed quietly into a sleeplike trance.
• B) demonstrated heightened physical powers and clairvoyance.
• C) continued to behave in apparently normal ways.
• D) often experienced violent and painful "crisis states."

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