Braid, JAMES, born in 1795 in Fife, studied medicine at Edinburgh, and settled as a surgeon in Manchester, where he died, 25th March 1850. He is noted for his researches on Animal Magnetism (q.v.), which he called Hypnotism.
Braid, JAMES
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