SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Near-Death Experience, Allopathic Medicine, Anesthetic

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovitch

Document Summary

He was one of the allopath (medical doctor). He is interested in any kind of technique that could further explain medicine. Attends medical thing for a new practice that seems to control the patients. It is a medical technique with two metal magnets --> animal magnetism. The first woman to use it was queen victoria. Animal magnetism treats someone without cutting him or her out. He notices that some of his patients seem to be relaxed while doing the animal magnetism. He comes up with the idea that we have more than one state of consciousness (first person to recognize this in a medical field in. He realizes that his patient does this: andr was laying down and de puysegeur starts talking o him and says to put his hand up, but andr forgot that his hand was up. Says people that are easily mezmories and does anything mean they are hypnotized.