ELD4847776 Mesmer\'s bucket session in a salon of the French nobility in the 18th century Demonstration by Frederic Antoine Mesmer. 19th century (chromolithograph); Private Collection; (add.info.: Franz Anton Mesmer, 1733-1815), German doctor, founder of the theory of animal magnetism known as mesmerism - (view of a session of Mesmer tub in a salon of the French nobility in the 18th century??Demonstration by Frederic Antoine Mesmer (Franz Anton Mesmer, 1733-1815), a German physician, founder of the theory of animal magnetism known of mesmerism.); Photo by The Holbarn Archive.