The franklin commission investigated mesmer and concluded that

They concluded that animal magnetism was fake and that Mesmer was a fraud and his practice had no scientific value. They also found out that although there was belief that he discovered a new fluid, there was no evidence of this and was mostly a part of his imagination. Mesmer was exiled because of this and spent the remainder of his life in Switzerland.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.