n Franzl, putting different shaped magnets on different parts of her body, after giving her medicine that was high in iron (Forrest, 1999; Goodwin, 1999). When the magnet treatments began, his patient had a strong reaction described by Mesmer as a "burning tearing pain, which spread up her legs as far as her hips where it was joined by a similar pain which descended from the magnet on her breast down one side and up the other to the crown of her head" (Forrest, 1999, p. 5). As Mesmer continued with these magnet treatments, he realized that by placing them in different locations, he could control the flow of the pain experienced by his patient, which would later influence the work of another clinician, John Elliotson. Mesmer then moved on from Fraulein Franzl and found three new patients on whom he could practice (Forrest, 1999). Despite the fact that Mesmer was failing to receive support for his theory from others in the medical community, and was even unwelcome in Vienna due to the opposition and some scandal (he moved to Paris instead), he was att
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