Du Potet was a highly successful mesmerist. from 1837 to 1845 practiced
as a homeopathic physician in London,[1] where
he successfully treated epileptic girls at the North London Hospital[2] and
according to a letter to the editor of The Lancet his experiments became the
talk of the town.[7]
For du Potet, who was in correspondence with mesmerists worldwide,
mesmerism was, not unlike Utopian socialism, an aid in bringing about social
transformation, even a revolution.[8]
Du Potet also pursued occult applications of mesmerism. He was a
member of the Theosophical Society; his writings were
quoted extensively by Helena Blavatsky.
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