Ocupation: Journalist
Life: June 24, 1842 - 1914
Birthday: June 24
Death: 1914
MESMERISM, n. Hypnotism before it wore good clothes, kept a carriage and asked Incredulity to dinner.
source: Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.164, University of Georgia Press
topic: Science, Clothes, Dinner, Incredulity