ABSTRACT
El objetivo de este artículo es analizar una fuente poco estudiada hasta el presente, la Revista Magnetológica publicada por una sociedad conformada principalmente por adherentes al espiritismo y la teosofía en Buenos Aires. El contenido de la revista ofrece evidencias muy valiosas sobre la manera en que actores sociales ajenos al campo médico tradicional abordaron teórica y prácticamente la hipnosis y el magnetismo en el cambio de siglo. En efecto, los magnetólogos de Buenos Aires no sólo elaboraron complejas conceptualizaciones sobre esos fenómenos, sino que también pusieron en práctica curaciones magnéticas cuyos detalles fueron difundidos des-de las páginas de la revista. Nuestro cometido es analizar algunos aspectos puntuales de esa publicación: de un lado, el modo en que los magnetólogos se posicionaron en relación a los médicos de la ciudad, y de otro, sus estrategias de autolegitimación.
The aim of this article is to analyze a source that has not been deeply studied yet: the Magnetologic Magazine (Revista Magnetológica)published by a society mainly composed of adherents of spiritualism and theosophy in Buenos Aires. The content of the magazine offers valuable evidence about the way in which social actors -who were foreign to the medical traditional field- theoretically and practically approached hypnosis and magnetism at the end of the century. In fact, magnetists from Buenos Aires not only developed complex conceptualizations of these phenomena, but also implemented magnetic cures which details were spread throughout the pages of the magazine. Our task is to analyze some specific aspects of this publication: on the one hand, how the magnetists were placed in relation to the doctors of the city, and on the other, their strategies of self-legitimation.
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Humans , Hypnosis , Magnetics , Complementary TherapiesABSTRACT
En 1886 se imprimió en Buenos Aires un libro titulado Las maravillas del hipnotismo. Escrito por un francés llamado Georges Borda, el texto constituye la más temprana obra sobre hipnosis publicada en la ciudad. A medio camino entre el lenguaje de la medicina y el afán divulgador, esas páginas propiciaban una difusión de los hechos del hipnotismo entre el público letrado de la capital argentina. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar los rasgos centrales de aquel libro, que hasta el presente no había retenido la atención de los historiadores. Además de rastrear sus planteos nucleares, el cometido es localizar la intervención de Borda en el contexto de la cultura científica de fines de siglo, poniendo especial énfasis en las tensiones y negociaciones que eran mantenidas entre la medicina porteña y otros actores profanos del escenario social.
In 1886, a book entitled "The wonders of hypnotism" was printed in Buenos Aires. Written by a french author called Georges Borda, the text constitutes the earliest piece about hypnosis published in the city. Halfway between the language of medicine and the spreader eagerness, those pages propitiated a diffusion of the hypnotism's facts among the qualified audience of Argentine's capital. The aim of this paper is to analyze the central features of this book, which up to the present had not caught the attention of historians. Besides tracking its nuclear statements, the task is to locate Borda's intervention in the context of the scientific culture of the end of the century, with particular emphasis on the tensions and negotiations held between the Buenos Aires' medicine and other lay actors of the social scene.
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History, 19th Century , Hypnosis , History , Medicine, TraditionalABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the sedative and hypnotic effects of Ganoderma lucidum brewage(GLB).Methods The NIH mice were given with gavage of GLB 0.06,0.12,and 0.24g/kg per day respectively for 15 days.The spontaneous motion,the sleeping time induced by pentobarbital sodium in subthreshold dosage and threshold dosage,and the number of mice subjected to pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsion were observed.Results GLB can reduce the spontaneous motion,significantly longthen the mice sleeping time of pentobarbital sodium in threshold dosage and increase the number of sleeping mice under subthreshold dosage of pentobarbital sodium.GLB was synergic with pentobarbital sodium,and antagonized pentylenetetrazol-induced convulsion in a dose-dependent manner.Conclusion GLB possesses obvious sedative,hypnotic and anticonvulsive effects.