Left hand discharge point
Anatomical left — terminal extremity
The hand marks one bilateral extremity discharge point in the magnetic-pass vocabulary, where magnetizer contact and directional passes were performed. Anatomical left is x > 0.5 under the corpus convention; exact terminal polarity varies by account and school.
Point 4 of 7 in Animal Magnetism — Poles, Pivot and Crises
Cross-tradition overlaps
- Left hand discharge point ↔ Axé — left hand (distance 0.010)
Sources
Franz Anton Mesmer, Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal (primary_canonical)
Mesmer's propositions describe animal magnetism as a universal physical fluid, bodily poles, therapeutic passes, and crises; this is the canonical source for the vocabulary represented here.
Adam Crabtree, From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing (scholarly_modern)
Modern scholarly history of Mesmerism, including crisis and somnambulism and the transition from fluidic explanations to psychological accounts.