Satirization of Animal Magnetism, 1815
A goat-headed man caresses a sleeping ewe-headed woman; satirizing the notion of animal magnetism and its application by physicians. Animal magnetism was the name given by the German doctor Franz Mesmer in the 18th century to what he believed to be an invisible natural force exerted by animals. De arts in Caricatuur, 1925
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