Right hand discharge point

Anatomical right — terminal extremity

The hand marks one bilateral extremity discharge point in the magnetic-pass vocabulary, where magnetizer contact and directional passes were performed. Anatomical right is x < 0.5 under the corpus convention; exact terminal polarity varies by account and school.

Head crisis poleÉpigastre — solar pivotRight hand discharge pointRight hand discharge pointLeft hand discharge pointRight foot discharge pointLeft foot discharge pointBaquet-era crisis locus

Point 3 of 7 in Animal Magnetism — Poles, Pivot and Crises

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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.

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