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| Picture No | 10007530 |
| Date | 17 September 1894 |
| Description | Woman dies under hypnosis, Tuzer, Upper Hungary |
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In Tuzer, Upper Hungary, Ella Salamon, hypnotised by the Austrian hypnotist-healer Franz Neukomm in an attempt to cure her nervous ailment, goes into convulsions and dies when Neukomm asks her to give clairvoyant information about the health of a distant patient (his brother). The post mortem found that she had died of heart failure, and Neukomm was convicted of manslaughter. This was the first recorded death to take place under hypnosis.
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| Source | Le petit Parisien, 7 October 1894 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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