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The franklin commission investigated mesmer and concluded that

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They concluded that animal magnetism was fake and that Mesmer was a fraud and his practice had no scientific value. They also found out that although there was belief that he discovered a new fluid, there was no evidence of this and was mostly a part of his imagination. Mesmer was exiled because of this and spent the remainder of his life in Switzerland.
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