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Such everyday instances are familiar to most of us and could be multiplied without end. The trained nurses know that a patient, after several weeks of periodica l morphine injections, will feel genuine relief from his pains when simple water is injected hypodermically, provided he does not suspect the substitution of the drug. Rashes have been known to break out, only as a result of apprehension that one had contracted some contagious disease or had handled poison ivy. People commonly develop sea-sickness before the boat has actually left the harbor. Fear of the dark is likely to accelerate the heart beat, even though the terrors of night are purely imaginary. He says:"And the Concrete Man is gone also. The Gray Wagon made another trip. Death ended his delusion that he was doomed to live for a thousand years. I wonder if he is glad at the release. He had sought death by physical means; he achieved it through a state of mind. His hallucination that he was solid concrete from the neck down prevented his body from assimilating the food which the attendants forcibly fed him. His mind finally starved him to death.

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Freud, we may recall, was originally a student of Charcot. He studied and practiced hypnotism, and his patients were often hysterics. But he did not quite fit into the shoes of his teacher and found waking suggestion much more to his taste. Taking up Breuer's hint, he devised the rules of psychoanalysis as a better substitute (so he believed) for other methods of suggestion treatment. His approach was thoroughly practical and, coupled with the vast imagination he possessed, led him away from, rather than toward, the study of causes, which underlies all science. Now, suggestion does not operate in vacuo, but in a human body; and its effects arise not as a result of "telepathy," but through the mediation of a bodily mechanism. This mechanism, we must remind ourselves, is active in every sort of prestige-and-faith situation and is nothing other than the autonomic nervous system, connected in both directions with the central nervous system and, through it, with conscious experience.

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Drama and suggestion are the two vitalizing powers underlying all effective learning. To make education fruitful, the students must be made aware of the significance of their work. Otherwise they will direct their attention elsewhere and study to get grades, credits, degrees, or pursue other objectives, relevant or irrelevant to education, that they will discover in their academic work. Drama and suggestion, I repeat, are the two vitalizing powers underlying all effective learning. There can be no drama about subjects dead to the student, and suggestion is bound to be sterile unless problems presented to the class are exciting. The process of learning is fruitful only in so far as it is akin to life itself and draws constantly from life's changing issues and stresses. And who but the teacher is qualified to reveal and explain to the student the meaning of his environment and his relationship between the individual and society?

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I do not mean, of course, that hypnotic suggestion should be used in all instruction in the above activities. Quite the contrary, it should be resorted to only in exceptional cases, when a particular inability is clearly caused by a psychological attitude of fear or uncertainty and, consequently, by an inhibition. In fact, I do not recommend the application of hypnosis on a large scale. It should remain a powerful tool used with caution and discrimination. Men lived by feeling and faith long before they began to reason. In those early days, there was no knowledge, in the modern sense of the word, no inquiries into the nature and causes of things. People simply had beliefs and asked no questions. When they believed strongly, they felt strongly; they felt with every muscle and every tissue within them. Faith may not move mountains literally, but since ancient days it has moved every important organ in the body. And suggestion is the vehicle of faith, passing it from man to man, arousing crowds, spreading from chiefs down to their followers, rising from people up to their chosen leaders. Rooted in primitive tendencies, suggestion reaches deeper than most of us know. It is a power hard to measure and hard to control.

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Every physician knows, or should know, from experience that the prestige he commands serves not only as a means of building up his practice, but also as a valuable tool for overcoming his patients' ailments. Ridiculous as the assumption may seem at a first glance, the way he speaks, his manners, his clothes, even his automobile are often influential in restoring people to health. A patient's faith in his doctor is frequently no less useful than the drug he prescribes. Most physicians do not quite comprehend the theoretical foundations of human prestige. Yet, in the last analysis, what is prestige but popular faith and respect? Is it not a form of auto-suggestion on a large scale, with the autonomic nervous system controlling the bodily aspect of the attitude? The same truth, though in a somewhat different manner, applies to the lawyer's practice and to the teacher's instruction. All of them cannot help but deal in suggestion and, for their own sake, should prepare minds for its reception. Let then the reasons for their influence upon people's minds be not merely a lesson of personal experience, but also a scientific fact of human psychology that can be utilized in a thousand ways to improve the effectiveness of professional work.

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Despite the general correctness of this observation, E. Coué partly misunderstood and partly overestimated the power of independent auto-suggestion. In the popular mind, his name is associated with the famous formula, "Every day in every way I am getting better and better," supposedly a panacea, an efficient remedy against practically any disease. But the subsequent passing of the vogue, followed by the downfall of Coué's School, is a sufficient proof of the inadequacy of the precept. His temporary success was due, it seems, to the startling and powerful impression his lectures and books had made on the public, an impression which gradually faded, leaving the curative formula enfeebled, though still occasionally helpful. Obviously, it was founded on human faith and an individual's prestige. It remains true that only a small minority of men have a sufficient fountain of steady belief within themselves to transform indecisiveness into confidence, emotionality into calmness, timidity into courage. Even this minority have not enough faith to work upon themselves without guidance by some trusted authority. Auto-suggestion, far too commonly, calls for an outside inspiration or support.

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It seems to be a simple expectation that medical men abstain from non-scientific attitudes. Yet we occasionally meet physicians and scholars, some of them distinguished, even renowned, who still maintain a mystic attitude of mind toward their science. I was surprised and disappointed to find Alexis Carrel, a Nobel prize winner, among their number. Witness a statement from his Man the Unknown: "Our present conception of the influence of prayer upon pathological lesions is based upon the observation of patients who have been cured almost instantaneously of various affections, such as peritoneal tuberculosis, cold abscesses, osteitis, suppurating wounds, lupus, cancer, etc. The process of healing changes little from one individual to. another. Often, an acute pain. Then a sudden sensation of being cured. In a few seconds, a few minutes, at the most a few hours, wounds are cicatrized, pathological symptoms disappear, appetite returns.

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The subjects' reports themselves are an interesting novelty, rich in valuable introspective information, demonstrating that the subject in the state of oneirosis is distinctly critical and discriminative. After having been in the state but once, no one will maintain that hypnosis is necessarily oppression and enslavement.
For comparison, take the following description of oneirosis, dealing with a group experiment in education, by an objective outside observer, a newspaper reporter : "A new approach to the problem of student attentiveness was demonstrated at City College last night by Dr. Ralph B. Winn, instructor in the Department of Philosophy and Psychology, who has developed a 'type of hypnosis in which the subject retains the free activity of the mind'."Dr. W·, who calls the state produced oneirosis- the prefix meaning 'dream'-has been experimenting with a single volunteer student for several months, he made known. Last Wednesday, with a group of ten young men and women, who had received their parents' permission to participate, he began more formal tests, and last night, after some persuasion, allowed a few outsiders to watch and hear the new form of teaching.

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It is fallacious, I think, to assume that there are fields of knowledge which are perfectly safe. None is. Every science and profession is good only in so far as it is used for good purposes. Human genius has been known to turn the best things into sources of evil and destruction. Explosives, airplanes and submarines can be used to promote civilization or to take human lives in war. Industrial inventions can be operated to increase prosperity or to deprive people of the means of livelihood. Drugs can be and have been used not to restore health but to impair it. Laws can be and are being made to dispense injustice rather than justice. Political power can oppress or liberate. These facts give us no reason, however, to repress research and experimentation. The benefits of science, in all its forms and branches, outweigh immensely its occasional detriments. This surely holds true of hypnotism, too. Hypnotism is one of the sciences, with everything that this word implies. It is harmless in itself, as has been fully demonstrated in the above pages, but in certain cases of negligence or evil intention it becomes, like all good things, a source of harm.

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The harmlessness of hypnosis is as firmly established as it could be. Nevertheless, no matter how small the danger of the trance may be, caution should not be forgotten, the more so that, in case the practician is accused by a subject or his relative-rightly or wrongly-of having done him some physical, moral or financial damage, public opinion is sure to be antagonistic to the practician.

Therefore, I recommend the following simple rules of caution

1. Never to attempt the practice of hypnosis before one has made a thorough and minute
study of the field;
2. Never to hypnotize unless one is a physician, psychologist or educator;
3. To avoid superfluous public demonstrations of the art of suggestion;
4. To practice hypnosis only as an essential part ofscientific research;

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One of the most important consequences of post-hypnotic suggestion is the increased susceptibility of the subject to the practician's directions. Whenever the subject must be hypnotized repeatedly, it is always desirable to shorten the pre-hypnotic period. The procedure becomes easier with every sitting. But it will be truly of negligible duration, if the practician tells his subject, just before arousing him from the preceding trance, to enter the state practically instantaneously at the next sitting. As a result, it sometimes suffices to snap the fingers, and the subject is immediately in a trance.

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How does one end the trance? Ordinarily it is sufficient to say, "Open your eyes," and to repeat the phrase emphatically if necessary, and the subject is back in his normal state, ready to report his experiences or to go home. He may feel somewhat bewildered or drowsy. In fact, it has been pointed out that "it is quite general for subjects to show a slightly dazed appearance, upon first being roused from deep trance. As a matter of fact, subjects do not really wake instantly, as is sometimes thought by superficial observers of a trance demonstration. On the contrary, it is evident that the influence of the trance persists for some little time after they have responded to the command to wake by opening their eyes. This is probably why subjects can be thrown into a trance very much more readily a minute or so after waking from one than a day or two after."

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Most hypnotists seem to encourage and actually to suggest amnesia subsequent to the sitting. Occasionally there may be, I grant, a need for doing so. But in most cases it is quite superfluous, in my opinion, to give the subject a pre-hypnotic suggestion to forget whatever will have happened during the trance. With Schilder and Kauders, I contend that "we do not consider it an advantage to have the patient kept in ignorance of what is happening to him." I object to the traditional tendency on purely practical grounds. I do not know of any advantage in producing amnesia in every case. But I do know from experience that a suggestion contrary to the customary practice, namely, a suggestion to remember everything that happens during the state, actually increases the practician's chances for success and shortens the pre-hypnotic period. I have often observed a marked decrease of tension immediately after such a suggestion. It has an additional importance in that it counteracts the tendency among persons able to recall their experiences during the state to deny subsequently that they had been hypnotized at all.

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Children of normal and superior intelligence are, on the whole, excellent subjects. Unless they are very young, boys and girls are somewhat more susceptible to suggestion than adults. Liébeault has practically demonstrated this fact by inducing hypnosis in every one of 88 children, ranging in age from 7 to 14, whereas other cases averaged success only in 9 cases out of 10. Though figures vary among later investigators, the rule is not seriously disputed.Theoretically, it is true that "practically all normal persons can by hypnotized" and that "practically all normal persons can learn to hypnotize." Even blind and deaf people can be put into a trance, by a slight modification of ordinary procedure. Actually, however, no practician ever attains one hundred percent success. Failures are not due solely to deficiencies and peculiarities of the subjects, nor to the hypnotist's insufficient knowledge of, and experience in, handling his cases skilfully and safely. The situation itself may arouse or create psychological forces that will prevent the practician from establishing the necessary psychological relationship and, consequently, from succeeding in putting across his suggestions, as the subject's habits and memories can never be fully known or his reactions and behavior fully predictable. Nevertheless, proper caution and technique will greatly help eliminate most difficulties.

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The behavior of a hysteric does not seem to be very much like the conduct of a person under hypnosis. Nor can a man suffering from a complex of inferiority be confused with one in a trance. Any one who has had but a single opportunity to witness a hypnotic session knows that a hypnotized person does not look like a man in the state of high suggestibility, such as one observes in the whims and passions of an excited mob or in the moods of a waking neurotic. It is customary to believe that people are most open to suggestion while they are wide awake. But a hypnotic, for all we see, does not seem to be wide awake. Rather, he looks as if he were asleep.These two sets of facts-the indubitable evidence, on the one hand, that hypnotized people are under the strong influence of the practician, to the point of obeying even nonsensical commands of his, and the apparent truth, on the other, that the subject is in the stage ranging in depth from mere drowsiness to stupor-led many learned observers to conclude that hypnosis is a paradoxical phenomenon in which the state of high mental suggestibility is combined with bodily sleep. At a first glance, hypnosis does resemble sleep.

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Thoughts as well as emotions do influence bodily metabolism. The state of mind can, indeed, * "cause or cure organic troubles." Who has not seen, in fact, persons who virtually "blossom out" after having won success or happiness ? And who has not seen them, as it were, wither away under the pressure of failure? Who does not recall the bodily radiance of a couple in love? And who can forget the sight of a mother actually perishing from grief after the loss of her only child? Every physician or nurse knows that, in combating a serious disease, consideration and tact are essential. Life hanging on a thin thread may turn one way or another, depending upon the patient's mental attitude. And this is open to suggestion. It may be criminal to tell him the plain but cruel truth. A white lie, consolation, and encouragement should be given him, not to soothe his suffering, but to give strength and support to his mind and also to his body. Medicine has at its disposal the weapons of laboratory, surgery, pharmacology, and psychology. None of these should be neglected.There is a power of mind over body that cannot be denied. It used to be conceived as a mystical influence of the disembodied soul upon mortal flesh. Science offers us a more reliable explanation. We have already repeatedly intimated that there exists a bodily mechanism responsible for this connection. We observed that, under the pressure of a powerful and appropriate suggestion, almost any part of the organism may begin to act in a fashion which under no circumstance can be reproduced at will. It does not matter whether the change takes place under hypnosis or in an ordinary waking state. In either case suggestion is operative. In fact, many of the phenomena commonly observed under hypnosis have also been seen apart from it, in the normal state of high suggestibility, or in the abnormal state of hysteria.

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"Let me take a look at the weather report for today. Ah, fair and warmer. It certainly is warmer, much warmer. Do you mind if I take off my coat? I do not recall, you know, a hotter day in the City. Not for several years, at least. It is surely above 90, perhaps above 100. In a tropical country, say in the West Indies, I should not be surprised. There you expect it, you get used to it. And, of course, you wear clothes appropriate to the climate. But here, in New York City, it is amazingly warm for the month of September. In spite of the fact that I am lightly dressed, perspiration just flows down my face and back. Where is my handkerchief?"

He gets uneasy and, true enough, perspiration bedews his face. Nothing surprising, one may remark: he has merely received a suggestion and has reacted to it in a natural way. This is precisely my contention: the phenomenon is a natural reaction to suggestion under hypnosis. But this reaction, though quite normal under the circumstances, is not one you can reproduce by an effort of conscious will. Try, indeed, with all the imagination you possess, to develop sweat by a sheer strain of your fancy. It simply cannot be done. Obviously, we have witnessed a case of auto-suggestion considerably intensified by means of hypnosis. It brought into operation certain natural powers of the subject's body, making the imaginary experience sufficiently realistic to evoke drops of sweat out of the pores of his skin.

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Since James Braid found that hypnosis is unbelievably harmless for a power so remarkable and great, his contention has remained virtually unshaken. Despite the low opinion of hypnotism held by the public, manifested both in its idle curiosity and its evil-humored gossip, there have been reported amazingly few instances of ill-effects. Moreover, of the few that have actually occurred, most, if not all, should be attributed to accident or coincidence. In a recent study of this problem, M. H. Erickson states,"The literature offers little credible information concerning possible detrimental effects of experimental hypnosis, although replete with dogmatic and opinionated denunciations founded on outworn and untenable concepts of the phenomenon. The author's own experience, based upon several thousand trances on approximately three hundred individual subjects, some of whom were hypnotized at least five hundred times each over a period of four to six years, reveals no evidence of such harmful effects. The clinical finding is further substantiated by the well-known difficulties encountered in the deliberate therapeutic attempts to occasion desired changes in the personality. Accordingly, marked changes from experimental hypnosis appear questionable."

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The problem of hypnosis is much clarified, when we realize that the mechanism determining it accounts not only for the pathology of suggestibility (hysteria), but also for many old and current methods of treatment and cure of neurotic states, namely, for the practical successes of primitive faith-healing, of Christian Science, and of psychoanalysis. These three ways of handling mental diseases, though thoroughly unlike in assumptions, are identical in so far as they dress their doctrine in an obscure or mystical terminology and, especially, in so far as they command, and rest upon, the same bodily powers. The scientific approach to our problems demands that the latter dependence be revealed and insists on explaining all phenomena as natural.

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The hypntized subject appears to be in a deep sleep, the eyes are either closed or half closed, and the face is without expression. The body appears to be in a state of complete collapse, the head is thrown back, and the arm sand legs hang loose, dropping heavily down. In this stage insensibility is so complete that needles can be run into any part of the body without producing pain, and surgical operations may be performed without the slightest unpleasant effect.

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The same is true of bad habits in children. The weak may be strengthened by the stronger nature, and hypnotism may come in as an effective aid to moral influence. Here again character is the deciding factor.

Dr. James R. Cocke devotes a considerable part of his book on"Hypnotism" to the use of hypnotism in medical practice, and for further interesting details the reader is referred to that able work.

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We may now turn our attention to another class of phenomena of great interest, and that is the visions persons in the ordinary state have of friends who are on the point of death. It would seem that by an extraordinary effort the mind of a person in the waking state might be impressed through a great distance. At the moment of death an almost superhuman mental effort is more likely and possible than at any other time, and it is peculiar that these visions or phantasms are largely confined to that moment. The natural explanation that rises to the ordinary mind is, of course, "Spirits." This supposition is strengthened by the fact that the visions sometimes appear immediately after death,as well as at the time and just before. This may be explained, however, on the theory that the ordinary mind is not easily impressed, and when unconsciously impressed some time may elapse before the impression becomes perceptible to the conscious mind, just as in passing by on as wift train, we may see something, but not realize that we have seen it till some time afterward, when we remember what we have unconsciously observed.

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"What does all this mean? I will refer to one or two facts in relation to the structure and function of the brain, and show one or two simple hypnotism experiments of very ancient parentage and date, which will, I think, help to an explanation. First, let us recall something of what we know of the anatomy and localization of function in the brain, and of the nature of ordinary sleep. The brain, as you know, is a complicated organ, made up internally of nerve masses, or ganglia, of which the central and underlying masses are connected with the automatic functions and involuntary actions of the body (such as the action of the heart, lungs, stomach, bowels, etc.), while the investing surface shows a system of complicated convolutions rich in gray matter, thickly sown with microscopic cells, in which the nerve ends terminate. At the base of the brain is a complete circle of arteries, from which spring great numbers of small arterial vessels, carrying a profuse blood supply throughout the whole mass, and capable of contraction in small tracts,so that small areas of the brain may, at any given moment, become bloodless, while other parts of the brain may simultaneously become highly congested."

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The following is Professor Delboeuf's account of Dr. Bernheim's mode of suggestion during hypnotism at the hospital at Nancy. A robust old man of about seventy-five years of age, paralyzed by sciatica, which caused him intense pain, was brought in. "He could not put a foot to the ground without screaming with pain. 'Lie down, my poor friend; I will soon relieve you. 'Dr. Bernheim says. 'That is impossible, doctor.' 'You will see.' 'Yes, we shall see, but I tell you, we shall see nothing!' On hearing this answer I thought suggestion will be of no use in this case. The old man looked sullen and stubborn. Strangely enough, he soon went off to sleep, fell into a state of catalepsy, and was insensible when pricked. But when Monsieur Bernheim said to him, 'Now you can walk, he replied, 'No, I cannot; you are telling me to do an impossible thing.' Although Monsieur Bernheim failed in this instance, I could not but admire his skill. After using every means of persuasion, insinuation and coaxing, he suddenly took up an imperative tone, and in a sharp, abrupt voice that did not admit a refusal, said: 'I tell you you can walk; get up.' 'Verywell,' replied the old follow; 'I must if you insist upon it.' And he got out of bed. No sooner, however, had his foot touched the floor than he screamed even louder than before. Monsieur Bernheim ordered him to step out. 'You tell me to do what is impossible,' he again replied, and he did not move. He had to be allowed to go to bed again, and the whole time the experiment lasted he maintained an obstinate and ill-tempered air."

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Dr. Cocke is a firm believer that the right use of hypnotism by intelligent persons does not weaken the will. Says he: "I do not believe there is any danger whatever in this. I have no evidence (and I have studied a large number of hypnotized subjects) that hypnotism will render a subject less capable of exercising his will when he is relieved from the hypnotic trance. I do not believe that it increases in any way his susceptibility to ordinary suggestion."

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"Hypnotic suggestion is an order given for a few seconds, at most a few minutes, to an individual in a state of induced sleep. The suggestion may be repeated; but it is absolutely powerless to transform a criminal into an honest man, or vice versa."

Here is an excellent argument. If it is possible to make criminals it should be quite as easy to make honest men. It is true that the weak are sometimes helped for good; but there is no case on record in which a person who really wished to be bad was ever made good; and the history of hypnotism is full of attempts in that direction.

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Mr. Ernest Hart had an article in the Century Magazine on "The Eternal Gullible," in which he gives the confessions of a professional hypnotic subject. This person, whom he calls L., he brought to his house, where some experiments were tried in the presence of a number of doctors,whose names are quoted. The quotation of a paragraph or two from Mr. Hart's article will be of interest. Says he:

"The 'catalepsy business' had more artistic merit. So rigid did L. make his muscles that he could be lifted in one piece like an Egyptian mummy.He lay with his head on the back of one chair, and his heels on another, and allowed a fairly heavy man to sit on his stomach; it seemed to me,however, that he was here within a 'straw' or two of the limit of his endurance. The 'blister trick,' spoken of by Truth as having deceived some medical men, was done by rapidly biting and sucking the skin of the wrist. L. did manage with some difficulty to raise a slight swelling,but the marks of the teeth were plainly visible." (Possibly L. had made his skin so tough by repeated biting that he could no longer raise the blister!)"

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The same phenomena are probably accountable for many of the strange records of history. The wonderful cures at Lourdes (of which we have read in Zola's novel of that name) are no doubt the effect of hypnotization by the priests. Some of the strange movements of whole communities during the Crusades are to be explained either on the theory of hypnotization or of contagion, and possibly these two things will turn out to be much the same in fact. On no other ground can we explain the so-called "Children's Crusade," in which over thirty thousand children from Germany, from all classes of the community, tried to cross the Alps in winter, and in their struggles were all lost or sold into slavery without even reaching the Holy Land.

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On a subsequent occasion Dr. Cocke, who was blind, was put into a deep hypnotic sleep by fixing his mind on the number 26 and holding up his hand.

This time he experienced a still greater degree of terror, and incidentally learned that he could hypnotize himself. The matter of self-hypnotism we shall consider in another chapter.

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The strange part of hypnotism is, that on awaking, the patient has no recollection of what has taken place, and careful tests have shown that what appear to be violent emotions, such as in an ordinary state would produce a quickened pulse and heavy breathing, create no disturbance whatever in the cataleptic subject; only the outer mask is in motion.

Sometimes during hypnotism the subjects lean backward with all the grace of a perfect equilibrist, freeing themselves from the ordinary mechanical laws. The curvature will, indeed, at times be so complete that the head will touch the floor and the body describe a regular arc.

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As she spoke she lightly touched the hypnotized subject with the end of the whip.The moment the subject felt the whip he jumped and shrieked as if it really were a hot iron. She touched each one of the class in succession,and every one manifested the utmost pain and fear.

One hypnotized subject sat down on the floor and cried in dire distress. Others, when touched, would tear off their clothing or roll up their sleeves. One young man was examined by a physician present just after the whip had been laid across his shoulders, and a long red mark was found, just such a one as would have been made by a real hot iron. The doctor said that, had the suggestion been continued, it would undoubtedly have raised a blister.

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It may require half a dozen or more trials before any effect at all can produce hypnotism, although in some cases the effect will come within a minute or two. The success of such an entertainment could not otherwise be guaranteed. In many cases, also, this training of subjects makes them deceivers.

They learn to imitate what they see, and since their living depends upon it, they must prove hypnotic subjects who can always be depended upon to do just what is wanted. We may add,however, that what they do is no more than an imitation of the real thing. There is no grotesque manifestation on the stage, even if it is a pure fake, which could not be matched by more startling facts taken from undoubted scientific experience.

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"The activity of the organs of special sense,except the eye, may be heightened, and the power of the muscles increased. Complete insensibility to pain may be induced by hypnotism,and it has been used as an anaesthetic. It is apt to be followed by a severe headache of long continuance, and by various nervous disturbances."

"On emerging from the hypnotic state, the person hypnotized usually has no remembrance of what happened during its continuance, but in many persons such remembrance may be induced by 'suggestion'. About one person in three is susceptible to hypnotism, and those of the hysterical or neurotic tendency (but rarely the insane) are the most readily hypnotized."

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Dr. Herbert L. Flint, a stage hypnotizer, describes his method as follows:

"Having assured myself that he is in a passive condition, I suggest to him, either with or without passes, that after looking intently at an object for a few moments, he will experience a feeling of lassitude. I steadily gaze at his eyes, and in a monotonous tone I continue to suggest the various stages of sleep. As for instance, I say, 'Your breathing is heavy. Your whole body is relaxed.' I raise his arm,holding it in a horizontal position for a second or two, and suggest to him that it is getting heavier and heavier. I let my hand go and his arm falls to his side."

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THE STAGES OF HYPNOTISM

We have just given some of the amusing experiments that may be performed with subjects in one of the minor stages of hypnotism.

He recognized three distinct stages--lethargy, catalepsy and somnambulism. There is also a condition of extreme lethargy, a sort of trance state, that lasts for days and even weeks, and, indeed, has been known to last for years.There is also a lighter phase than somnambulism, that is called fascination. Some doctors, however, place it between catalepsy and somnambulism. Each of these hypnotic stages is marked by quite distinct phenomena. We give them as described by a pupil of Dr. Charcot.

Hypnotism : A complicated phenomena

The student of hypnotism will have to form a conclusion for himself as he investigates the facts. Possibly it will be found that the true theory is a combination of all three of those described above.

Hypnotism is certainly a complicated phenomena, and he would be a rash man who should try to explain it in a sentence or in a paragraph. An entire book proves a very limited space for doing it.

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If you would ask the present writer's opinion, gathered from all the evidence before him, he would say that while he has no belief in the existence of any magnetic fluid, or anything that corresponds to it, he thinks there can be no doubt that some people will succeed as hypnotists while some will fail, just as some fail as carpenters while others succeed.

This is true in every walk of life. It is also true that some people attract, others repel, the people they meet. This is not very easily explained, but we have all had opportunity to observe it. Again,since concentration is the prerequisite for producing hypnotism, one who has not the power of concentration himself, and concentration which he can perfectly control, is not likely to be able to secure it in others.

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Idiots, babies under three years old, and hopelessly insane people cannot be hypnotized.

No one can be hypnotized unless the operator can make him concentrate his attention for a reasonable length of time. Concentration of attention, whatever the method of producing hypnotism, is absolutely necessary.

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Time and scientific progress have largely overthrown Mesmer's theories of the fluid; yet Mesmer had made a discovery that was in the course of a hundred years to develop into an important scientific study. SaysVincent: "It seems ever the habit of the shallow scientist to plume himself on the more accurate theories which have been provided f, by the progress of knowledge and of science, and then, having been fed with a limited historical pabulum, to turn and talk lightly, and with an air of the most superior condescension, of the weakness and follies of those but for whose patient labors our modern theories would probably be non-existent." If it had not been for Mesmer and his "Animal Magnetism",we would never have had "hypnotism" and all our learned societies for the study of it.

Mesmer, though his pretensions were discredited, was quickly followed byPuysegur, who drew all the world to Buzancy, near Soissons, France."Doctor Cloquet related that he saw there, patients no longer the victims of hysterical fits, but enjoying a calm, peaceful, restorative slumber. It may be said that from this moment really efficacious and useful magnetism became known."

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In 1778 Mesmer was obliged for some unknown reason to leave Vienna, and went to Paris, where he was fortunate in converting to his ideas d'Eslon, the Comte d'Artois's physician, and one of the medical professors at the Faculty of Hypnosis.

His success was very great; everybody was anxious to be hypnotised, and the lucky Viennese doctor was soon obliged to call in assistants. Deleuze, the librarian at the Jardin des Plantes, who has been called the Hippocrates of hypnotism,has left the following account of Mesmer's experiments:

Self hypnotization

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