<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Braid_(surgeon)" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Braid (surgeon)">James Braid</a> first sees a demonstration of <i id="mwSg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_magnetism" id="mwSw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Animal magnetism">animal magnetism</a></i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lafontaine" id="mwTA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Charles Lafontaine">Charles Lafontaine</a>, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls <i id="mwTQ"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnotism" id="mwTg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hypnotism">hypnotism</a></i>.<sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./November_13#cite_note-7" id="mwTw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwUA">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt45" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFBraid1843"><a href="./James_Braid_(surgeon)" id="mwBt4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Braid (surgeon)">Braid, James</a> (1843). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=DMgDAAAAQAAJ&amp;pg=PA16" id="mwBt8" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBuA">Neurypnology; or, The rationale of nervous sleep, considered in relation with animal magnetism</i></a>. J. Churchill. p.<span id="mwBuE" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>16.</cite><span about="#mwt45" class="Z3988" id="mwBuI" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Neurypnology%3B+or%2C+The+rationale+of+nervous+sleep%2C+considered+in+relation+with+animal+magnetism&amp;rft.pages=16&amp;rft.pub=J.+Churchill&amp;rft.date=1843&amp;rft.aulast=Braid&amp;rft.aufirst=James&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DDMgDAAAAQAAJ%26pg%3DPA16&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANovember+13"></span></span>