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    James Braid (19 June 1795 – 25 March 1860) was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the...
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  • France, some twenty years after the death of James Braid, who had adopted the term hypnotism in 1841. Braid adopted the term hypnotism (which specifically...
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    in English by the Scottish surgeon James Braid (to whom they are sometimes wrongly attributed) around 1841. Braid based his practice on that developed...
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    secretory response. The notion of an ideo-dynamic response contributed to James Braid's first neuropsychological explanation of the principle through which...
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  • James Braid, originates in Braid's response to an 1841 exhibition of "animal magnetism", by Charles Lafontaine, in Manchester. Writing in 1851, Braid...
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  • James Braid. Student Record for James Esdaile -- University of Edinburgh, Centre for Research Collections, Individual Records, Students of Medicine....
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    459-568. Suggestion: Its Place in Medicine and Scientific Research (1897). "James Braid: son œuvre et ses écrits [James Braid: His Work and Writings]", Revue...
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  • was introduced in 1841 by the Scottish physician and surgeon James Braid. According to Braid, he first employed "self-hypnotism" (as he elsewhere refers...
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  • Braid-style hypnotic inductions — the solution for which had, up to that time, eluded Coué:      "Coué immediately recognised that the course’s Braid-style...
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    influence until the end of the 19th century. In 1843, the Scottish doctor James Braid proposed the term "hypnotism" for a technique derived from animal magnetism;...
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