Famous Impostors

Bram Stoker spent his last years collecting history's great frauds: pretenders to thrones, alchemists and witch-finders, the Tichborne Claimant — and the strange Cotswold legend that Queen Elizabeth was really a boy.

Mesmer

3 cases in this part of Famous Impostors.

Mesmer

ALTHOUGH Frederic-Antoine Mesmer made an astonishing discovery which, having been tested and employed in therapeutics for a century, is…

Mesmer: Faculty

It was distinctly to his disadvantage that Mesmer always kept at a distance the whole corps of savants such as the Faculty of Medicine and…

Mesmer: Government

The Again, when in answer to a request on his part that the French Government for the good of the community should subsidise him, a…

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