translate English to German: In 1774 to produce an "artificial tide" in a patient, Mesmer had her swallow a preparation containing iron, and then attached magnets to various parts of her body. She reported feeling streams of a mysterious fluid running through her body and was relieved of her symptoms for several hours.
Stefan Zweig hat ihm zusammen mit Mary Baker Eddy , der Gründerin und Entdeckerin der Christian Science und Sigmund Freud , dem Vater der Psychoanalyse eine literarische Darstellung gewidmet.