Braidism

The dictionary states the derivation of the word from the Greek word meaning sleep, and gives as synonym "Braidism".

Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use A. Alpheus

Thus the year 1860 saw the rise and fall of Braidism as

Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use A. Alpheus

At first he thought hypnotism (Braidism) was identical with animal magnetism, but later made the mistake of considering it analogous, and the two flourished side by side and independently.

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

Darling went to England and introduced electro-biology, but it was soon identified with Braidism, and in 1853 Durand de Gros, who wrote under the pseudonym of Philips, exhibited the phenomena of electro-biology in several countries, but aroused little attention.

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

It does not differ, however, essentially from the "animal magnetism" which for a hundred years achieved such remarkable success in drawing-rooms without reaching the point of forcing the doors of the scientific academies, nor from the "Mesmerism" or the "Braidism" which will have to be explained in the course of the historical exposition of the subject.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

He examined especially the influence of staring at a shining object, a method which not seldom was called Braidism.

Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

I venture to remark that the medical treatment by Mesmerism, Braidism and hypnotics, which was violently denounced and derided in 1850, is in 1887 becoming a part of the regular professional practice and forms another item in the long list of the Fallacies of the

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855