Gantet, Claire 2023 Mesmerism was built in newspapers and in response to newspapers. Never before probably had an issue of public health been discussed with so much verbal violence. Whom henceforth was recognized medical authority? Th e Archiv für Magnetismus und Somnambulismus [Archives of Magnetism and Somnambulism] was published in Strasbourg by the physics professor Johann Lorenz Böckmann in 1788-1789, in 8 volumes of over 100 pages. It was the only scientifi c journal on animal magnetism that really operated as a forum on the new therapy. It attempted to correct the disastrous eff ect of the Parisian condemnation of the notion of a universal fl uid (that was put forward by Franz Anton Mesmer) in August 1784 and to promote a scientifi c discourse by denouncing anonymous articles. application/pdf https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/327927 https://folia.unifr.ch/documents/327927/files/archmagn_diciottesimo.pdf fre info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.36253/ds-14150 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/issn/2531-4165 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess CC BY Diciottesimo Secolo. - Firenze University Press. - 2023, vol. 8, p. 67-78 history of medicine animal magnetism Franz Anton Mesmer journals La médecine au risque de ses publics: les Archives du magnétisme et du somnambulisme (Strasbourg, 1787-1788) http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501