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Nov 13, 2021
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It’s November 13, and you are feeling sleeeepy… how do I know that? Simple — today’s the anniversary of the day in 1841 that James Braid, a reasonable and respected medical man from the UK, attended a demonstration of “animal magnetism” by Charles Lafontaine. “Animal magnetism” was supposedly an invisible force that was common to everything living, from…

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