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James Braid was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, bandy legs, and squint; a significant pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy, and an important and influential pioneer in the adoption of both hypnotic anaesthesia and chemical anaesthesia.
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science · Scottish surgeon (1795–1860), pioneer of hypnotism · hypnotist · physician · hypnotherapist · surgeon · also James Braid, James Braid (surgeon), Braid
Born 19 June 1795 · Died 25 March 1860 · Q675789
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It is strange that Braid did not think of applying suggestion in its most natural form – suggestion by speech – to bring about hypnosis and its therapeutic effects. He did not dream of explaining the curative effects of hypnotism by means of the psychical influence of suggestion, but made use of suggestion without knowing it.
“It is strange that Braid did not think of applying suggestion in its most natural form – suggestion by speech – to bring about hypnosis and its therapeutic effects. He did not dream of explaining the curative effects of hypnotism by means of the psychical influence of suggestion, but made use of suggestion without knowing it.”
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Bramwell published a list of eight "sources of fallacy" attributed to Braid; the final two having been directly paraphrased, by Bramwell, from other aspects of Braid's later works (see text at right)
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Bramwell wrote on Braid's work for an important French hypnotism journal ("James Braid: son œuvre et ses écrits")
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Bramwell noted that, "[Braid's name] is familiar to all students of hypnotism and is rarely mentioned by them without due credit being given to the important part he played in rescuing that science from ignorance and sup
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Died 1860-03-25.
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Braid investigated the phenomenon of "table-turning" and clearly confirmed Michael Faraday's conclusion that the phenomenon was entirely due to the ideo-motor influences of the participants, rather than to the agency of
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Garth Wilkinson published a description of Braid's "hypnotism", which Braid described, two years later, as "a beautiful description of [my system of] hypnotism"
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Braid emphatically states that:
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Published Neurypnology; or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep Considered in Relation with Animal Magnetism
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Continuing to practise from there until his death in 1860
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Set up in private practice at Dumfries, where he also "encountered the exceptional surgeon, William Maxwell, MD (1760–1834)"
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Which entitled him to refer to himself as a member of the college, rather than a fellow
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Born 1795-06-19.
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