The Wombat File Is Yours to Keep

Our regular excursion into the pointless returns. Thanks to all who patiently suffered through the hiatus with know outlet for your overactive factoidal lobes. Today's noodle-frier:

He was born in 1734, in Swabia, and studied medicine at the University of Vienna. In his dissertation, he discoursed on the influence of planetary bodies on various human maladies, focusing on what he saw as the cycle of "intention" and "remission."
Under the guidance of a Jesuit known as "Father Hell," he extended his theories and began promulgating them, culminating in a popular practice in Paris. He appeared, in group treatment sessions, "in a long robe of lilac-coloured silk richly embroidered with gold flowers," carrying a white wand, with which he stroked the breasts and abdomens of those who came for treatment, calming or reviving them after they had been reduced to hysteria by the treatment's earlier stages. They often reported a feeling of cold or burning passing through them as he touched them.

His first name was Anthony -- his surname name lives on in a modern English word. What was it?

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