英语词汇mesmerize的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

mesmerize. Franz Anton Mesmer doesn’t entirely deserve his centuries-old reputation as a charlatan. Though he wasn’t aware of the fact, Dr. Mesmer was one of the first to treat patients by hypnosis, and his motives generally seem to have been beyond reproach. The Austrian physician, garbed in the flowing, brightly colored robes of an astrologer and waving a magic wand, would arrange his patients in a circle, have them join hands in the dimly lit room and then pass from one to an- other, fixing his eyes upon, touching, and speaking to each in turn while soft music played in the background. Apparently he never did understand that the supernatural had nothing to do with his success, that his hypnotic powers accomplished this. Many physicians supported his claims but when Louis XVI ap- pointed a scientific commission—which included Benjamin Franklin—to investigate his practice, they labeled him an im- postor. A man born before his time, the hypnotist died in ob- scurity in Switzerland in 1815, aged 82. Freud and others would profit from his work, but he would mainly be remembered as a quack occult healer. Mesmerism was used for hypnotism be- fore the latter word was coined, but today is employed mostly in the sense of spellbinding, enthralling by some mysterious power, in fact, swaying a group or an individual by some strange personal magnetism.

词汇	mesmerize
词源	mesmerize. Franz Anton Mesmer doesn’t entirely deserve his centuries-old reputation as a charlatan. Though he wasn’t aware of the fact, Dr. Mesmer was one of the first to treat patients by hypnosis, and his motives generally seem to have been beyond reproach. The Austrian physician, garbed in the flowing, brightly colored robes of an astrologer and waving a magic wand, would arrange his patients in a circle, have them join hands in the dimly lit room and then pass from one to an- other, fixing his eyes upon, touching, and speaking to each in turn while soft music played in the background. Apparently he never did understand that the supernatural had nothing to do with his success, that his hypnotic powers accomplished this. Many physicians supported his claims but when Louis XVI ap- pointed a scientific commission—which included Benjamin Franklin—to investigate his practice, they labeled him an im- postor. A man born before his time, the hypnotist died in ob- scurity in Switzerland in 1815, aged 82. Freud and others would profit from his work, but he would mainly be remembered as a quack occult healer. Mesmerism was used for hypnotism be- fore the latter word was coined, but today is employed mostly in the sense of spellbinding, enthralling by some mysterious power, in fact, swaying a group or an individual by some strange personal magnetism.
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