One of this thinker's most notable patients was Leopold Mozart, which led Wolfgang Mozart to pay homage to him with his opera Cosi Fan Tutti.
According to primary sources, this man was fond of performing his most notable feat while dressed in a purple robe with a wand while a grand song was playing on a glass harmonica. One of this thinker's most notable patients was Leopold Mozart, which led Wolfgang Mozart to pay homage to him with his opera Cosi Fan Tutti. In his doctoral dissertation titled De Planetarium Influxu, this man proposed that human beings were endowed with a cosmic fluid that regularly interacted with the planets and the rest of the universe. King Louis XVI appointed a commission including Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier to investigate the claims of this man, who pioneered a form of hypnotic therapy that involves the patient swallowing iron filings. For 10 points, identify this German charlatan who proposed the theory of animal magnetism, whose name is now attached to a verb that is synonymous with "enthrall."
According to primary sources, this man was fond of performing his most notable feat while dressed in a purple robe with a wand while a grand song was playing on a glass harmonica.
Franz Anton Mesmer