James Braid (surgeon)

James Braid (* 1795 in Fife (Scotland ), † March 25, 1860 ) was a Scottish physician who practiced in Manchester.

Braid studied at Edinburgh University and in 1841 was a demonstration by the French - other sources of Swiss say - magnetist Charles Lafontaine attention to the magnetism.

He coined the term Neurypnology ( Neurohypnotismus ) - later shortened to hypnosis based on the Greek word for sleep hypnos. Is in the original of the book of 1843, contrary to other information not talk about the god of sleep, Hypnos.

At one time, as in medical anesthesia just the very first successful experiments were conducted that hypnosis was one of the few methods for pain relief during surgery. In Britain, it was hardly observed after his death in 1860. In France, however his ideas were taken up.

Works

• Braid, J. (1843 ) Neurypnology; or the rational of nervous sleep, Considered in relation with animal magnetism. Illustrated by Numerous cases of its successful applications in the relief and cure of disease, London, John Churchill.
• Braid, J. (1853 ) Hypnotic Therapeutics, illustrated by cases. With an appendix on table -moving and spirit - rapping, reprinted from The Monthly Journal of Medical Science, July (1853 ), p.20.
• Preyer, W., The discovery of hypnotism. Portrayed by W. Preyer ... Besides an unpublished original paper by Braid in German translation, publishing of Brothers Paetel, (Berlin), 1881.

• Briton
• Scotsman
• Physician (19th century)
• Born in 1795
• Died in 1860
• Man