☞ Rapport des commissaires charges par le roi, de l'examen du magnetisme animal, imprime par ordre du roi.


Creator(s): Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Author)
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Publication: Paris: Chez Moutard, imprimeur-libraire de la reine, & de l'Academie royale des sciences, 1784.
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Sabin 25579 | Ford 357–363
Editions: 2x 1784 (Paris), 1x 1785 (London), 1x 1790 (Paris), 1x 1837 (Philadelphia)
Editions Note: Five editions: two in Paris in 1784, one in London in 1785, one in Paris in 1790, and one in Philadelphia in 1837. As Ford notes, "Mesmer came to Paris in 1778 and began the practice of his pretended cure-all with so much success that by 1784 the delusion had reached a point which required official interference, and the king appointed a Commission to investigate his theory, of which Franklin was made a member, and though prevented by illness from witnessing the tests made by his fellow commissioners, yet he had a series of experiments made at Passy, and signed the adverse report they made to the king."
Holding Note:

APS holds at least fourteen editions. APS holds six 1784 editions, including one Signé B. Franklin, Majault, Le Roy, Sallin, Bailly, d'Aroet, de Bory, Guillotin, Lavoisier and presented by the Marquis de Barbé-Marbois, December 1784. (Cf. early minutes of Dec. 9, 1784.), a second copy where pages 1-11 include lettre de M. Mesmer a M. le comte de C***, Copie de la requete a nosseigneurs de parlement en la grand' chambre. Signé Mesmer. and repport signé Poissonnier, Caille, Mauduyt, Andry, which is and is bound with the author's Rapport des commissaires chargés par le Roi ... 1784, and Signé B. Franklin, Majault, Le Roy, Sallin, Bailly, d'Aroet, de Bory, Guillotin, Lavoisier, and another with the same signatures, as well as another of the same presented by M. de Marbois, and lastly a copy where the publisher, Gastelier, has been pasted over original publisher, Moutard. APS also holds a 1790 edition. APS holds three copies of the the 1785 English translation with the "Report of a committee of the Royal society of medicine, appointed to examine a work, entitled, Enquiries and doubts respecting the animal magnetism, by M. Thouret": p. 1-17 copy one contains the book-plate of Henry Stevens of Vermont, as does copy two, while the third was presented by William S. Mason. APS also holds four copies of the 1837 Philadelphia edition: one which contains also "Rapport of a committee of the Royal society of medicine, appointed to examine a work, entitled 'Enquiries and doubts respecting the animal magnetism' by M. Thouret ... To which are subjoined by the translator, notes, chiefly extracted from M. Thouret's performance": p.1-8 and a second copy, third copy, and a fourth copy.

BibNumber: 3.035