Such results are moderate evidence that forces pertaining to departed spirits were then operating upon the disturbed ones; for emanations from such source are frequently more agitating and agonizing, or more calming and pleasurable, than any that come forth from the simple Mesmerizer.
"Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism"
Allen Putnam
The Mesmerizer, who also has a dinner-plate, faces them, and impresses on them very seriously the importance, if they really want to be mesmerized, of doing exactly what he does and not moving their eyes from him in any direction.
"What Shall We Do Now?: Five Hundred Games and Pastimes"
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When even the silence and seclusion of this retreat failed to bring slumber, he sometimes called in a professional Mesmerizer to put him into a hypnotic sleep, from which Sawyer knew how to arouse him at a fixed time.
"Equality"
Edward Bellamy