James Braid (surgeon)
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James Braid (June 19, 1795 – March 25, 1860), was born in Fife, and was the son of James Braid and Anne Suttie. He married Margaret Mason (or Meason) on 17 November 1813. They had two children, James (b. 1822), and a daughter.
An eminent Scottish neurosurgeon, Braid was an important and influential pioneer of what we now term hypnotism.
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