Baquet

A baquet is a big container filled with iron rods, bottles, magnetized metal filings, crushed glass, and water. It was created by Anton Mesmer, an Austrian physician, in 1780. The metal rods that were protruding from the container were placed over areas that were bothering the patient in order to treat hysteria. Mesmer believed that this movement of magnetic energy would aid in the healing.

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