[PW] Hypnotist Feldmann?

[Dennis Lien]

At 02:38 PM 8/5/2007, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>   No luck yet on the exact date of J. H. Block's death (only 1934) and the
>email for the Swiss site doesn't seem to be working.
>        http://www.unige.ch/biblio/ses/jla/gen/bib00.html
>
>   Block claimed that he was able, on at least one occasion (1892), to make
>wax recordings of a "well-known" Russian hypnotist, a 'Mr Feldmann' (in 
>Moscow)
>- perhaps the first recorded trance (one convincing the subject that she saw
>and chased a bird that did not exist). None of the references however mention
>his first name.
>
>   So how "well-known" was this fellow?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Allen


This book might have a lead, but our copy is in another collection several
blocks away.  Maybe another Wombat has a copy to hand and could check:

Title            Abnormal hypnotic phenomena, a survey of 
nineteenth-century cases; edited by Eric J. Dingwall.
Published       London, Churchill, 1967-68.
Description     4v. plates, illus., ports. 23 cm.
Availability    TC Bio-Medical Library BF1125 A153 1967 Regular Loan

Contents        <snip>--v. 3. Russia and Poland, by L. Zielinski. <snip>
Note    Includes bibliographies.


Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu