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- Title
L'acupuncture et le magnétisme animal face à l'orthodoxie médicale française (1780-1830).
- Authors
Guilloux, Ronald
- Abstract
The article analyzes why medical acupuncture was only practiced in France from the 1810s to the 1820s and argues that French medical orthodoxy played a role. The reception, success, and decline of acupuncture in France during that time and how obstacles to animal magnetism at the end of the 18th century contributed to this decline are discussed. Topics addressed include the involvement of Jules Cloquet, a member of the newly founded Académie royale de médicine (royal medical academy) in 1821, acupuncturists and hypnotists portrayed as charlatans, and the economic, political, and morale aspects of acupuncture.
- Subjects
FRANCE; ANIMAL magnetism; MEDICINE; CLOQUET, Jules; ACUPUNCTURISTS; HYPNOTISTS; QUACKS &; quackery; 18TH century medical history; ACUPUNCTURE; 19TH century medical history; ETHICS; HISTORY
- Publication
Gesnerus, 2013, Vol 70, Issue 2, p211
- ISSN
0016-9161
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/22977953-07002002