The notion that passing magnets over people’s heads could make them happier has been around for a very, very long time, at least since the 1770s. The Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer used the technique in front of large 18th century audiences, and was so successful that Louis XVI funded the establishment of a “Magnetic Institute” in France to work on the technique further.

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