METHUSELAH ARCHIVE LINEAGE / INVISIBLE-VITAL-FORCE
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Invisible vital force

A historical comparison of systems built around an unseen force or fluid said to organize health, vitality, and disease.
span:1778–present
cases:5
status:open · continuing branches
THE THREAD
1778–1784 Animal magnetism (mesmerism) mesmer-animal-magnetism-1778-1784 1780–1794 Celestial Bed and Temple of Health graham-celestial-bed-1780-1794 1784–1820 Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism) mesmer-puysegur-magnetism-1784-1820 1796–1843 Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine) CONTINUING hahnemann-homeopathy-1796-1843 1940–1957 Orgone Energy Accumulator reich-orgone-accumulator-1940-1957
THROUGH-LINE

Historical members gave different names to an organizing agency and supported it through practitioner authority and testimony. Any present member's operation and evidence status remain confined to that member's Case and sources.

The historical record includes systems built around unseen forces or fluids said to organize health, vitality, and disease. This page groups source-backed comparison edges for navigation. Any present member’s operation and evidence status are stated only in that member’s Case and attached sources; historical outcomes do not transfer.

At least one member intervention continues, but this thread does not assert a representative present endpoint.

CASES IN THIS LINEAGE
  1. Animal magnetism (mesmerism) (1778–1784)
  2. Celestial Bed and Temple of Health (1780–1794)
  3. Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism) (1784–1820)
  4. Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine) (1796–1843) · CONTINUING
  5. Orgone Energy Accumulator (1940–1957)
EDGE EVIDENCE

Animal magnetism (mesmerism)

  1. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968)

Celestial Bed and Temple of Health

  1. Doctor of love: James Graham and his celestial bed [book review] (2010)

Magnetic somnambulism (artificial somnambulism)

  1. The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind (2024)

Homeopathy (Hahnemann's system of medicine)

  1. A brief history of homeopathy (2006)
current continuity: Homeopathy, Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? Comparative study of placebo-controlled trials of homoeopathy and allopathy

Orgone Energy Accumulator

  1. Dr. Wilhelm Reich - Orgone But Not Forgotten (2018)
  2. Orgone Energy Accumulators (FDA Notices of Judgment, Case No. 5391) (1954)
FRAMING SOURCES
  1. Mesmerism and the End of the Enlightenment in France (1968)
  2. The Marquis de Puységur, Artificial Somnambulism, and the Discovery of the Unconscious Mind (2024)
  3. A brief history of homeopathy (2006)
  4. Dr. Wilhelm Reich - Orgone But Not Forgotten (2018)