Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see?
Sometimes your words just mesmerize me. —Notorious B.I.G.
(Okay, those are not the real lyrics—but they should be. Alliteration.)

An Untold Story

Franz Anton Mesmer, a Viennese physician who practiced medicine shortly after Sir Isaac Newton, was fascinated by the corollary between the psychological ‘m…