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HOW TO
HYPNOTIZE
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Illustrated
Chicago
M. A.
DONOHUE &
CO.
Copyright 1903.
M. A. Donohue
&
Co.
CONTENTS.
Introduction History
of hypnotism Mesmer
Puysegur
Braid
What is hypnotism? Theories of
hypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis
Theory; 3. Suggestion Theory
7
Chapter I How
hypnotic entertainments
43
Chapter
II
the stage
59
Chapter IV How
music
Dr. Al93
Oriental prophets
self-hypnotized
5
103
CONTENTS.
Luys
Professional
How
subjects
Dr.
was deceived
Impossibility of
in being hypnotized
Condemnation of public performances A commonsense
view
Evidence furnished by Lafontaine; by Dr.
Courmelles; by Dr. Hart; by Dr. Cocke No danger
in hypnotism if
rightly used by physicians or
145
scientists
Chapter IX Hypnotism
in medicine
Anaesthesia
Restoring the use of muscles Hallucination Bad
habits
159
Chapter X Hypnotism
of animals
Snake
charming
173
Chapter XI A
scientific explanation of
hypnotism
179
in
"Phantasms
of the living"
Confessions of a
Medium Spirit-
of telepathy
statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous
of the Psychical Research Society
205
Interesting
medium
193
INTRODUCTION.
There
is
In
1850.
and probably
a very
not invented
it
teries of Isis" in
name was
is
Egypt thousands
was one
it
of the
of years ago,
weapons,
if
magi mentioned
men"
of
in the Bible
and
seem
to
of
of
who went
induced hypnotism.
fakirs of India
of
mesmerism,
priestesses
"wise
"Laying on
of the
into
It is
who make
priests or
trances of
self-
trees
Aaron did
in Bible history),
much more
The
subject to
INTRODUCTION.
Western peoples
religious orgies of
form
of that hysteria
which
is
modern phenomenon
ted to the
Though
various
scientific
so closely relaof
hypnotism.
men spoke
of
power
of a peculiar kind
Anton Mesmer
appeared
which one
man
could
was not
until
Fred-
it
(a doctor
Vienna)
of
Mesmer
that "animal
it
one
No
attention
except by the
Academy
another.
him an unfavorable
In 1778
Paris,
in
Europe, stating
magnetism"
man
"Acad-
existed,
could influence
was given
of Berlin,
his letter,
which sent
reply.
Mesmer was
known reason
gave
In the
obliged for
to leave Vienna,
some un-
and went to
in
converting
INTRODUCTION.
to his
ideas
Comte
d'Eslon, the
d'Artois's
very great;
everybody was
anxious to be
soon obliged to
call
in
Deleuze,
assistants.
who
has
left
Mesmer's
experiments:
was closed by a
foot deep.
It
two
and encased
pieces,
bucket.
of
five feet in
in
lid
made
in
another tub or
the centre.
Other bottles
filled
with magne-
up were
laid
in
wards.
"high pressure."
filled
with
INTRODUCTION.
10
water,
powdered
also
which
to
and iron
glass
some dry
There were
filings.
tubs, that
prepared in the
is,
The
lid
was perforated
passage
of
movable bent
water.
the
added
sometimes
were
additional
to admit of
rods,
which
patient's body.
to a ring in the
lid,
and
the
this
No
patients
disease
"A
large
number
monly treated
at
of patients
were com-
one time.
or
feet.
The
handsomest,
youngest,
and
born patients.
all
felt
at
the magnetic
the most easily
fits
INTRODUCTION.
of
their legs
cate.
11
to suffo-
moans and
laughter, piteous
burst
thrown back
in
torrents of tears
The
spasmodic
bodies were
symptoms were
would
Sardonic
most
the
Then
exhibited.
scene
strange
this
away
their
appearance of horror.
'
another spectacle.
their
floor,
in
of suffocation.
fits
Mesmer, dressed
extending a
in
lilac coat,
moved
about,
least
INTRODUCTION.
12
most violently
their eyes,
his,
bringing
contact to
At another moment
establish communication.
extended
fingers,
current, crossing
with
operate
and uncrossing
the
his
great
arms with
many
of
women and
of
There
is little
of
character of the
is
he ultimately became
little
charlatan.
his
There was,
there
was
virtue in
no doubt that
more
of course,
also
in his
than
no virtue
in
magnetic tubs,
of the chief
to induce
hypno-
INTRODUCTION.
tism, as
we
Faith, imagination,
and willingness
13
1779 Mesmer
published
"Memoire
entitled
sur
magnetisme animal",
gives the following
of
la
pamphlet
du
decouverte
summary:
(his chief
principle
claim
which
"He
in
twenty-
a reciprocal action
and
and
There
reaction between
is
is
subject
unknown.
The
to
of
a constant uni-
animal
body
directly
is
the
substance of the
human
of
nerves.
It
causes in
'Animal Magnetism'.
it is
called
may
be
INTRODUCTION.
14
propagated,
sound.
It
may
by
accumulated,
be accumulated, concentrated,
The same
and transported.
rules apply to
The magnet
is
suscep-
virtue.
and
communi-
artificial
electricity
have,
common
nature,
and
the
if
use
of
these
by
has been
animal magnetism.
By
medicine
fect,
may
render
its
action
more
per-
crises so as to
his control."
The
Faculty of
Medicine
investigated
society
unless
he gave
Mesmer
up.
fraternity
INTRODUCTION.
attacked him
20,000 francs
of
15
pupils.
if
later
In
it
offered
felt
him a pension
He
he would remain.
American Ambassador
the great French
to
On
one
of these
Franklin, then
France as well as
scientist
Lavoisier.
The
Academy
of
man who
only
declared
in
favor
of
Mesmer.
There
is
making money,
interesting,"
says
French
writer,
"to
secret."
INTRODUCTION.
16
"They sought
melles):
the
not by the
fluid,
complicated
too
task,
but
in
the
the
When
experimentalist.
close investigation,
it
be induced
found
when
in public or in private.
it
the
were
In short
however,
to
subjects
whether
was,
submitted
the sole
active
imagination
is
why
should
'If
we
Did
the
or
'You choose to
call it
But
it
of
after
all,
as
imagination; be
cures, let us
make
it
so.
the most
it'?
to the conclu-
INTRODUCTION.
sion that the
tion,
Strange to
verdict!"
Daurent
Jussieu
more than
believed in anything
truth,
He saw
this.
which he
set forth
in a personal report
relate,
to imita-
same
17
Mesmer and
Time and scientific
itself
so hostile
his pretensions.
yet
in the course of a
into
an
Vincent:
of the fluid;
important
scientific
"It seems
study.
Says
science,
knowledge and
of
of
and with an
air of the
most superior
INTRODUCTION.
18
modern
Mesmer and
for
If
"Animal
his
all
it.
Mesmer, though
credited,
his pretensions
all
the
world
Buzancy, near
to
Soissons, France.
victims of hysterical
fits,
no longer the
dis-
who drew
that
were
moment
It
may
be said
really efficacious
and
Every
them
all
dreds
known
who came
as "Puysegur's tree".
Puysegur's success, a
number
result of
of societies
were
INTRODUCTION.
formed
in
19
new
of the
phenomena.
In the meantime, the subject had attracted
He became an
troduced
its
into
practice
and
in-
hospital
at
enthusiast,
the
Berlin.
India,
fluid,
mind
introduced what
of
suggestion"
hypnotism.
of
is
in
In 181
the
now
called the
producing
5
Mesmer
first
"method
magnetism or
died.
He
patient.
Academy
in the 20's
of
Medicine
report.
of
INTRODUCTION.
20
know
a
symptoms
it.
right
of the
we
hypnotic state as
It
to
somnambulism,
anaesthesia, loss of
other
of
be considered as a therapeutic
it
it.
made
Soon
Burdin, a
after this
Academy, offered a
member
of the
of
fixed
conditions), but
many claimed
it
was
it,
and
evidence that
Soon
after this,
magnetism
fell
into very
and
scientific
men became
of
it
in
any
INTRODUCTION.
21
it
suffered decidedly
in professional reputation.
It
that
an English
to
is
we owe
modern
hypnotism.
formed from
hypnotism,
meaning
'sleep',
produced
sleep'.
Greek
the
and designating
His name
however,
physician,
is
word
'artificially
James Braid,
"Braidism".
following
interesting
summary
of
Braid's
experiences:
He
thing a comedy; a
week
Swiss
he attended a
was ascribable
fixity of
to
some
physical cause.
The
INTRODUCTION.
22
He made
roundings.
at the
at
neck
of a bottle,
and
his
own
wife look
Here
hypnotism had
bered,
agents.
the
is
This,
and hypnotism):
exist in
It
was
induced by
difference
between
phenomena (magnetism
magnetism supposes a
for
the
netized subject,
fact
must be remem-
it
essential
direct action of
be
sleep could
established that
physical
and the
origin,
its
hypnotism."
may be
stated that
American operators
fail
to see
any distinction
between magnetism and hypnotism, and suppose that the effect of passes, etc., as used by
Mesmer,
method
is
of
in its
way
as
much
physical as the
on a bright object,
or the like.
new
it
science
as
far
was concerned
INTRODUCTION.
for he
not
23
is
largely,
if
He
purely,
known
might be placed
in
limbs, etc.,
of
do
this or
do
him
to
that,
made
to
do those
things.
if
he
commit
crime,
simply by suggestion, or
command.
Braid's conclusions were, in brief, that there
was no
fluid,
It
was
his
belief
that
In this he
was supported
INTRODUCTION.
24
by Carpenter,
neither
the
physiologist;
great
but
Braid
In 1848 an American
ceeded in obtaining
all
it.
who made
them
From
de Medicine."
this
in the
pub-
"Archives
men
France
scientific
it
up
may be
in
England.
It
in
more
easily
races,
the English.
On
least subject
and next
comprehend.
much
to
them
the Ori-
we can hardly
INTRODUCTION.
WHAT
We have
IS
86
HYPNOTISM?
the
imagination in
various ways,
means, such as
of physical
Both
methods are
of these
though hundreds of
used by
used by Braid.
still
scientific
in use,
and
men, including
many
years,
no
essentially
new
discovered,
of
hypnotic
of interest
developed.
make
All these
dence which
question,
will assist
What
Modern
is
a body of evi-
us in answering the
hypnotism
scientific
have been
Idiots,
No one can be
INTRODUCTION.
26
his atten-
Concen-
operator can
tration of attention,
producing hypnotism,
is
3.
of
absolutely necessary.
easily hypnotized are
By "
with hysteria).
hysteria "
is
Some
may
sometimes show
when
the arm,
"hysteria"
by severe pains
itself
in reality
It is
the
there
it
is
will
an
It
in
nothing
raise
severe cases
neurotic
of the
On
may
lead to insanity.
nervous system.
all
The word
is
and much
of
is
nervous system.
very
In medical science
teria.
not meant
It
includes hysteria
else beside.
hypnotism
to whether
is
agreed.
On
the question as
INTRODUCTION.
2?
Hart
in
an
but not
much.
Dr.
is
some
Ernest
MedicalJour-
Says he:
"
It is
common
delusion
the
The
experiment.
priest,
physician,
whether
operator,
charlatan,
self-deluded
is
not the
phenomena observed.
many
There
in the chain
exist at the
themselves,
so doing,
peculiar
present time
individuals
property or power as
One even
or electro-biologists.
it
these mischievous
am
often hears
INTRODUCTION.
28
is
what
hope
to be able to
my own
is
in the
Nineteenth
have
Century,
of
can
any
individual.
means only
person
the physical
A
who
as effectually as
hypnotizer
clever
is
acquainted with
hypnotic condition
is
produced; or sometimes
is
unaware
who supposes
is
of
cast in
himself really to
more
accurately,
is
all,
or
which, to speak
stock or stone."
Against this
we may
INTRODUCTION.
He
29
says:
Every magnetizer
'
'
is
most
may
is
They admit
necessary, and
in
find
ion,
writer's opin-
all
any magnetic
it,
fluid,
some
or any-
he thinks there
will
succeed
of
life.
It
is
some
This
also true
INTRODUCTION.
30
that
some people
observe
to
is
This
we have
explained, but
easily
had opportunity
concentration
of concentration
fectly control,
it
not very
is
all
Again, since
it.
the
others repel,
attract,
in others.
is
ment, a person
is
a strong ele-
perfect self-con-
in others.
most
all
it
is
probable
certainly true
that while
It
a person easily
means weak-minded
hypnotized
is
by
(indeed,
is
it
no
it.
subjects),
still
such
and
anced.
subject to a person
if
not unbal-
likely
to
be
strong
INTRODUCTION.
31
would be hard
to hypnotize.
weak, but
it
is
And
may
it is
it
always
control the
There
is
matter
all
Indeed, philosophy
in vibration.
is
must be
itself is
noth-
of force in vibration
and
is
higher vibration
many
scientists, life is a
means
of
measuring
still).
medium
for
it.
we have no
As every
appears to be
conveying vibration of
INTRODUCTION.
32
sound, metal
ing electric
(or imagine)
property
of
while
vibrations,
assume
medium
the chief
is
and
an
fills
for convey-
to account for
we have
light
invisible,
all
to
imponder-
life,
(It
When we pass
on to human
to theorize chiefly
by analogy.
various forms.
we have
existence of
the
ether
come
explain
which have
to
phenomena
of all kinds
better than
Now,
who can
of
in
life,
offered.
get, or
world.
what
this
The
power
is
following story
in the physical
INTRODUCTION.
no doubt
which
"A
of the
33
based:
it is
had no money,
was contemptuously
from
by the
thrill
He
refused.
entrance, and,
his case,
his request
stepped
drawing
his
He
scale.
finally discovered,
He drew
was keyed.
string of the
wire,
as
if
responded
through
its
bow
his
violin again,
under the
with
across the
spell
of
a magician,
enormous
He sounded
length.
strain of loaded
of
human
teams
itself,
as
traffic,
thrilled
and
and
mad waves
of
INTRODUCTION.
34
length,
its
and
the sea,
it
wave
of
like
some
ters
and longed
"The
tore
it
sentient animal,
it
tugged at
its fet-
to be free.
charge, apprehensive of
officers in
The ragged
genius,
instrument back
'I'd
self,
bridge.
"So
putting
in its case,
well-worn
his
muttered to him-
down
the
"
'
the hypnotist,"
is
goes on the
quoted,
writer
son
is
into
otherwise
emotions and
it
awakens
that
sensibilities
dormant,
No
these statements.
it
has
been demonstrated again and again that persons can and do frequently hypnotize
them-
INTRODUCTION.
This
selves.
35
is
may produce
If
a bright
fire,
a professional or trained
hypnotist.
Such
THEORIES OF HYPNOTISM.
We
in
regard
Other
a mystery.
oped
facts
in the course
of
some
of the best
Before doing
means
hypnotism.
sleep,
and the
will
book
be develwill only
theories.
however,
this
We
known
so,
which
still
it
would be well
what seems
to
happen
hypnotism
is
deep and
lasting,
INTRODUCTION.
36
of the condition
patient
is
is
It is
may be
known
active.
nervous system
other half
notism we
of
is
parts.
of the
stages the
that in certain
is all right.
now
will
is
other
while the
Some
awake.
the blood
'brain
case,
is
are
faculties
abnormally
In any
as though the
If
he
is
other, he does
told
it,
to
do
this, that,
or the
",
as
it is
called,
is
from
in his
ordinary sleep
if
tickled
with a straw.
Now
for
the theories.
There are
three
INTRODUCTION.
leading theories,
Magnetism;
We
2.
known
31
as that of
Neurosis; and
Animal
i.
Suggestion.
3.
will
without discussion.
Animal Magnetism.
offered by
This
the theory
is
it
force,
They
one part
believe
of
the body to be
may
be
filled
nize the
believe
power
it
They
recog-
do not
with magnetism.
Those who
between
means
or simple
suggestion.
We
have already
we
R. Cocke.
'
'A neurosis
ters
is
any affection
occurring without
of the
J.
repeat
nervous cen-
INTRODUCTION.
38
producing
or any
without inflammation
it,
As
will be
seen from the definition, any abnormal manifestation of the nervous system of
whose cause
we know
for conven-
ience,
practically nothing,
termed a neurosis.
it
who
is
If
man
first
Many forms
are called
neurosis.
Now
notism
the
is
acquaint-
means
has a cer-
termed a neurosis or
One man of my
neuropathic habit.
ance,
is
is,
result of
tremor
of
simply
neurosis,
ceptible
to
condition,
this
abnormal."
hypnotism
In
in the
affections in
cination
short,
classed, that
which,
sus-
M.
M. Charcot places
is
is
by
regarded as
is
same category
(medically
hyp-
to say that
of
nervous
finally hallu-
considered)
are
to be
According to
this theory,
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39
is
perfectly
So many
is
more or
all
insane, as a certain
less
This theory
Suggestion.
power
in
of
life.
Again
"If we can
be paralyzed,
that
based on the
everyday
Cooke.
is
effect
direct
the subject's
belief
mentioned
that
that
for instance
will
it
me
let
his
arm
will
take place,
will
gradually
such an
occur.
Such a
result
ject's
more
inclined than at
notizer's assertion.
first
This
is
much
generally the
The method
first
is
to convince
the subject that his eyes are closing by directing his attention to that effect as strongly as
possible.
However,
it
is
INTRODUCTION.
40
The theory
hospital at Nancy.
was
Neurosis
of
ments
by
Dr.
hospital in Paris,
which
Salpetriere school
that
is
is
now
the co-called
There
is
rather a modification of
theory,
or
Professor Charcot's
of the
may
electricity
notic state,
the
that
magnet and
physical
affect
in sealed
same
if
the
effects
taken
hypnosis will
in a
produce the
internally,
drugs
imbibed
of
would
or
seem
as
the
to
more complete
nature
call
fashion.
for
of
if
This
INTRODUCTION.
school, however,
credited,
41
dis-
may
known
as hypno-
genic spots.
will
It
The student
form a conclusion
the facts.
theory
is
of
hypnotism
for himself as
Possibly
it
will
have to
he investigates
a combination of
described above.
will
three of those
all
Hypnotism
is
certainly a
man who
sentence or in a paragraph.
An
it
entire
it.
in a
book
'
CHAPTER
HOW TO
Dr. Cocke's
Sleep
at Paris
at
Frauds of
in Foster's
Flint's
Nancy
The
Hindoo
The
HYPNOTIZE.
Method Dr.
Method
Method
I.
Silent
from Hypnotic
what
is
said of
hypnotism
".
sleep,
This
as gazing
on some
and consequent
'
suggestions
HYPNOTISM.
44
The
from without.
may
be height-
Complete
insensibility to pain
and
by hypnotism,
anaesthetic.
It
it
apt to be
is
may be induced
followed by a
On
pened during
state, the
suggestion
susceptible
hysterical
what hap-
cf
in many
maybe induced by
continuance, but
its
'.
to hypnotism,
or
person hypnotized
remembrance
emerging
in three
and those
neurotic tendency
is
of the
(but rarely
we
will
quote the
ducing hypnotism
given
hypnotism
in
by Dr. James R.
scientific
America.
able to
experiment-
His directions
more
applic-
HOW TO
"The
one
mind
is
he
fails
command
him
Tell
him
do
so,
few minutes;
then begin to
suggestion which
may
so-called mental
method
his
to think
tell
to
be produced in
Command him
Leave
nothing.
45
First,
a blank.
return and
If
ways:
of the following
the subject to
of
HYPNOTIZE.
his eyes.
make any
This
be desired.
is
the
of hypnotization.
it
Tell
him
to
his eyes
look steadfastly
away from
it.
Sug-
polished
disks,
steadfastly in the
I
same way
"Another method
as
is
at
less.
is
by simply command-
while the
HYPNOTISM.
46
may
be
" Fascination,
the
hypnotic
his eyes
made
as
it
called,
is
one
is
operator
of the subject.
few
for a
with them.
The
states.
on those
attention
in contact
and
head
over his
of
fixes
Holding
his
operator
minutes, the
The operator
likewise.
raises the
Briefly,
any movement
the
will
imitate
obey
one with
whom
he
is
en
rapport.
"A
person
is
by commanding him to
sleep,
and
or
may
of
Firm
some minutes
HOW
TO HYPNOTIZE.
him
The wearing
magnetized.
the body, and
it
has been
around
of belts
the
fingers, will
also,
if
rings round
and
of water,
at the
4"7
previously been
The
ical
magnetized or are
electric.
Dr.
"To
induce hypnotism,
conversation to place
my
begin by friendly
patient in a condi-
and quiescence.
the
own
desired end.
and
far
becomes
me
in obtaining
from subjugating
a benign agency,
his
mentality,
it
"Having
passive condition,
suggest
to him,
is
in a
either
HYPNOTISM.
48
looking
an object
intently at
for a
few moments, he
stead-
ily
As
sleep.
ing
for instance,
his
say,
arm, holding
it is
my hand
Your
They
is
relaxed.'
eyes,
'
continue,
falls to
feel tired
'
his
and sleepy.
Then
all
'
and
posi-
sleep.'
patients.
It is
can
let
side.
in a self-assertive tone, I
"
in a horizontal posi-
it
that
Your breath-
'
heavy.
is
raise
'
be
an error to
from
no deviation;
their
state, as
formula there
because,
alike, so
While one
some
as
no two
they cannot be
will yield
by
in-
HOW TO
HYPNOTIZE.
my
may,
tones
of
fretful,
The same
before.
eyes, another
become
timid, nervous,
49
and mesmeric
the voice,
passes.
lulling effect
effect
There can
other.
applicable to
be
unvarying
rule
all patients.
left to
by a long course
should
no
be
on an-
psychological training
of
necessary to obtain
control of
may
kill
his subject.
take a dose
another,
so in
means
the mental
that which
in
his
means seems
to
have
HYPNOTISM.
60
been
demonstrated
by an
Frenchman, upon a
scientific
which
incident
many
years.
Just as he
sound as
ried
of a
body suddenly
in a state
of catalepsy.
He
falling.
hur-
his patient
magnetism, and he at
He
per.
a glove
and
this
He
in,
interro-
per on
all
He
number were
affected by it."
in
Paris,
Doctor
HOW TO
Doctor Foveau, one
scribes
"
HYPNOTIZE.
51
of his pupils,
thus de-
it:
generally produced by
human
kind
peculiar
made
eye,
is
wood
fragments
of
induced by a
The
mirror.
of
of pieces of
which
in his case
mirrors are
cut prismatically in
mirrors are
incrusted.
They
wise,
and by means
matically.
They
of
are the
same
as sportsmen
in
If
the
little
in parallel lines in
becomes
fatigued,
mirrors
is
rapid, the
it is
By
the hyp-
HYPNOTISM.
52
falls into
one
of
With-
Wecker, the
occulist,
entirely cured
cures.
spasms
of the eye-lids."
count of
how
We
cess
was due
to his
own
much
of his suc-
personality.
Says
Professor Delboeuf:
and
air of
it,
enhanced by a tone
his voice
away
his clients
carries
with him.
he
is
suffering from,
hand on the
at
HOW TO
him, says,
'
You
HYPNOTIZE.
Then,
almost immediately,
telling
53
him that he
he closes the
is
and
After that he
asleep.
eyelids,
says,
If
hardly to
'
You
can-
he does, Dr.
notice
He
it.
then turns the patient's arm around, confidently affirming that the
stopped, and
movement cannot be
own
on without ceasing
talks
tor
commanding
You
will
will
The
in a loud
your circulation
and
and
well,
etc.
He
fires
leaving
you
will
become
feel
free
very strong
be able to walkabout,'
away
it
will
digestion
your cough
and
suggestions begin:
regular;
he
voice.
etc.,
Thus
No doubt he
gives
some
special
directions,
is
surfer-
HYPNOTISM.
54
ing
but general
from,
chief thing.
'
'
The same
many
great
are repeated
suggestions
monotony
of
of the speeches,
so penetrating,
so ardent,
that
is
sympathetic,
it
without
on
steadily
sleep simply by
on the
subject,
sort of writhing
sit-
hips.-
in a
By
In
all cases,
incidents
is
for concentration
must be produced.
Certain French
hypnotism may
hypnotism,
operators
maintain
that
be produced by pressure on
or regions of the
"
HOW TO
Among
body.
crown
HYPNOTIZE.
55
back
of the
Some
shoulder blades.
neck and
between the
persons
may be
hyp-
Hypnotism
noise, as
if
also
is
produced by sudden
by a Chinese gong,
HOW TO WAKE
etc.
This
is
Most persons
will
awake
naturally at
fall
the
into a natural
awake
and claps
his
decided noise.
to say, " You
wake up now,
will
some cases
wake up
in five
Wake
it is
up."
sufficient
minutes
";
and when he
56
HYPNOTISM.
Persons in the lethargic state are not sus-
ceptible
to verbal
awakened by
It is said
will
suggestions,
lifting
but
may
be
both eyelids.
wake the
Among
ovarian regions.
Some
cold
writers
recommend the
rarely necessary.
coal
application of
was brought
is
the
opposite direction,
often
persons.
fall off
is
likely to be
They
found
aroused,
again into a helpless state, and
in
will, if
It
subject
very
thoroughly
before
leaving
him,
else
HOW TO
headache,
nausea,
HYPNOTIZE.
or the like
effects.
57
may
In
follow,
cases
all
utmost consideration, as
if
is
person
who
induces
Others cannot do
have
it
so easily, though as
we
awaken themselves
Further description
of the
method
of pro-
it
is
hypnotized
at
all,
even by
an experienced
of patience,
It
may
although
in
all
more
can be produced,
effect will
come
is
much
HYPNOTISM.
68
The most
easier.
on the part
Public hypnotic
of the subject.
hospitals in Paris,
if
and
in the
and placed
The
called for.
in the
audience for
many
cases,
makes them
deceivers.
what they
tate
pends upon
this
also,
see,
They
and since
In
subjects
training of
learn to imi-
it,
just
that
what they do
jects
of
the
real
manifestation
is
thing.
There
more
is
no grotesque
startling
facts
scientific experience.
if
it
is
not be matched by
CHAPTER
II.
AMUSING EXPERIMENTS.
Hypnotizing on the Stage "You Can't Pull Your Hands
Apart" Post Hypnotic Suggestion The Newsboy, the Hunter, and the Young Man with the
Rag Doll A Whip Becomes Hot Iron Courting
a Broomstick The Side Show.
of the manifesta-
ates
is
and how
it
exhibits
itself.
by Dr. Herbert L.
public operator.
eye-witness
It
Flint,
is
a very successful
in the
language of an
They
middle-class.
who
in a semicircle fac-
HYPNOTISM.
60
head and
"Close
You
your
Think
eyes.
of
nothing but
You
are drowsy.
As he did
very sleepy."
feel
and one
fell
one's
You
sleep.
stroking each
audience, and
ing the
this,
several
eyes at once,
One or two
asleep immediately.
up
it.
When
some
the volunteers,
all
and smiling
at the
rest.
These
latter
were
When
those
who were
all
of
One
of the sub-
as to
what
it
seemed
to
him as
if
AMUSING EXPERIMENTS
something inside
of his
61
ness.
is
As a
to be doubted.
rule,
The
class
ordinary state.
fastening the
and
inability to speak.
In those pos-
he was able to
produce hallucinations, such as feeling mosquito bites, suffering from toothache, finding
the pockets
filled
many
simi-
lar tests.
his
HYPNOTISM.
62
The
is,
that what
force
their
trying
to unclasp
their
The
snapping
ridiculous
position
was broken.
to see that as
awoke, he seemed to be
fully
by
It
each one
cognizant of the
which
in
desist,
his
comrades
he was
commanded
to
absurd,
he obeyed.
While,
class
do
things
equally
therefore,
the
One young
fellow,
AMUSING EXPERIMENTS.
said that he
was addicted
The
suggestion was
habit.
He was
cigarette
to the
63
was
as
usual
his
He
who
the
replied that
However, he was
made him
ill
and he flung
it
expression of disgust.*
was shown
that
in
commanding
the
subjects
rotate
to
and
faster,
One
stop.
in spite of
twirled
them.
them
their efforts to
thought
of
and sometimes
it
puzzled him to
know why
they whirled.
*This is an instance of what is called post-hypnotic suggestion.
Dr. Cocke tells of suggesting to a drinker whom he w:ts trying to cure
of the habit that for the next three days anything he took would make
him vomit the result followed as suggested.
:
HYPNOTISM.
64
At
charge of the
at
Flint's
one
of
class.
were
subject's
the lady
to
him
him standing
In the
asleep.
so uproariously that
set,
Miss
among
and
He
and vacant,
meantime the
class.
nose
profound slumber.
in
his
of the stage
the front
to
until
Then he stopped.
left
Presently the
and walked up
Flint led
rest of the
head
He
which the
amused.
highly
finger
daughter took
act
had
particular, laughed
tears coursed
down
his
wipe
his eyes.
Just as he
at him.
She was
fully fifteen
the
moment
feet
was returning
it
to
subject, but
AMUSING EXPERIMENT^
tenance
fell,
65
while that of
his
in
heard.
in the
same
attitude, as
his
if
head were pulling the body along, and following the finger in the
same way as
was conducted
sor,
by the side
his predeces-
This was
same
in
each case.
in
an
ir-
perfectly motionless.
suggestion.
papers.
sell
One was
in
it
among
and
told that
look
to be a newsboy,
was an
doll
and
infant,
the audience
HYPNOTISM.
66
He was
father.
tel!
who
in a loud tone,
"Now,
as,
The bare
suggestion
was
given,
Now
woods
to
shoot birds."
same time
into
in
at the
voice; while
the
his edition
hunter crawled
The newsboy
whom
rid of
a cent,
his stock.
when
One man
offered
him
if
him
The
He
earth."
The
o
5
u
i
H
Oh
w
J
<
<
AMUSING EXPERIMENTS.
do
in the
same
67
characteristic way.
earnest,
was again
one
of
of the stage,
He
looked at
told
it
it
indifferently enough.
his head,
still
of
but
he shook
The
suggestion
iron,
incredulous.
He was
Every member
suggestion
of
of the class
made
The doctor
eyes.
in
All
their
was
lightly
if
it
really
The moment
the
were a hot
iron.
She touched
down on
fear.
One
HYPNOTISM.
68
when
Others,
distress.
off their
One
young man was examined by a physician present just after the whip had been laid across
his shoulders,
just such a
The
it
would undoubt-
One
of the
later time
was
amusing experiments
that of a tall
tried at a
young man,
wrapped
was
his sweetheart.
and
sat
down by
sheepish at
first,
in a sheet,
He
diffi-
broom
it
the broom.
He was
little
upon
by
ing,
Olivia.
little,
moment
lit-
of confident
in a
AMUSING EXPERIMENTS.
69
was deaf
The
subject, however,
He was absorbed
in his courtship,
and he continued
hug the
to
and bridegrooms.
and
all
to laugh at him.
One
of a
of the subjects
man
in the
was
audience was on
head
He
fire.
As
this
off
his
this,
he
it.
fire out.
In doing
to the stage.
The "side-show"
tainment.
told to think of
When
his
this idea
he was
HYPNOTISM.
70
He
mounted a
began to
dilate
all
at once
upon
the wild
pig,
and
He
sum
of ten cents
tent.
He
canvas picture.
He pointed to
He "chaffed"
a suppositious
the boys.
He
great show.
patrons.
"This
is
and took
He
sum
He made change
for his
hot work."
off
his collar
He rolled up
and
his sleeves
CHAPTER
III.
Catalepsy The
Lethargy
Somnambulistic Stage
Fascination.
We
may
experiments that
jects in
one
of the
amusing
of the
minor stages
of hypnotism.
manifestations.
classification of these
we
For
scientific
we
whom, next
to
Mesmer and
Braid,
hypnotism.
stages
He
recognized
lethargy,
bulism.
There
is
catalepsy
and
distinct
somnam-
a condition
also
three
of
of
of trance state,
ex-
that
lasts for
has been
known
There
somnambulism,
is
that
HYPNOTISM.
72
is
Some
called fascination.
place
it
Each
tinct
doctors, however,
of these stages
We give
phenomena.
by a pupil
marked by quite
is
dis-
them as described
of Dr. Charcot.
f
LETHARGY.
This
the
is
method
object
held
is
Braid
of
quite
is
If
it,
the object
If
lethargy
is
This
dilated.
is
left
is
the cataleptic
produced.
One
of the
stage of
"How
marked
hypnotism
is
we have
to Hypnotize."
characteristics of this
the
tendency of the
or even that of a
The
magnet placed
massage,
at a distance.
identical
ing illustration
it
at
that called
into action.
palm
means
73
is
rubbed a
little
The
an acute angle.
subject
is,
it
suffices to
above the
and bends
may
be sus-
will
be held
without return-
To
return to
phenomenon;
little
in this case,
It is
the forearm a
the
same
for
any
The
face
without expression.
is
appears to be
the head
legs
hang
is
in a state of
The body
complete collapse,
loose,
is
so
In
complete that
HYPNOTISM.
74
may
unpleasant
effect.
This stage
lasts
and the
patient,
will pass
upward
which he opens
in
his eyes.
spontaneous, that
is
duced
it
is,
if
If
it is
the hypnotism
due to a condi-
aid,
we have
the
many
cal
men
will
ported in
Said he
be interesting.
"There
is
at this
moment
in the hospital at
twenty-two years
of
case.
A young
Her complex-
fresh
is
75
"No
functions are
She
state.
which
is
is
performed as
Her mouth
slightest difficulty.
remains
inert.
is
insensible.
The
waking
the
in
of the spoon,
the vital
all
some
reflex
of touch
phenomena.
by a peculiarity, which
is
fore-
How-
extremely
retain
certain
is
If
to
HYPNOTISM.
76
"In the
is
coming
to see
became
of
other
way
disappear
rally
will
which
this torpor,
then
quitted
at
return
it.
It
to
is
will,
moment.
given
conscious
probable
all
no doubt, natu-
that
of her
will fancy
it is
She
as she
life
she
will
present
fail her,
slight
is of
a middle
size,
is lively,
indus-
is
young
an intense
tion
May
who, on
girl
which lasted
it
a lethargic condi-
Her parents
but, as the
fame
of
Her
March, 1887.
On
77
sleep had
vulsively upward,
but,
tightly,
of the lids.
Her
off
some
of the
The muscles
to
con-
arms remained
in position
contraction of the
lethargic state,
muscles
but the
is
arm,
a sign of the
remaining
was kept
alive
by
liquid
who have
The
nourishment
in
of cases
HYPNOTISM.
78
CATALEPSY.
The next
be thrown into
lethargic state
may
It
that
may
Patients
of catalepsy.
it
is
be brought into
and
by
it
itself.
Nearly
the
tism
all
means
phenomena
for producing
quite
hypno-
will, if
produce catalepsy.
fixing of the
may
the eyelids.
peculiar to
lifting
For
room
it
is
If
may produce
catalepsy, which
is
also
or an electric light.
become
per-
which he
when
produced,
happens
to
be
the effect
is
and
standing, kneeling,
sitting,
or legs
the
or
has an expression of
this face
The arms
79
may be
raised, but
if
fear.
left
to
The
and
The
impassive.
fixed
is
fixed
re-
the
muscles,
nerves
or
tendons
are
is
when
By
manipulating the muscles the most rigid contraction may be produced, until the entire
is
body
most
experiment
startling
subject
may be
is
possible.
The
man may
sit
body.
may be broken on
upon him
effect,
or
the sub-
HYPNOTISM
80
the action
describe
school,
Salpetriere
the
pupils of
"The
patient
is
elbow
rests
on the arm
thumb
On
the forearm
table,
left
finger
of
is
two inches.
After
on the
down,
and forearm
rise
left
stretched out on
the
the
of
waxen
the ex-
The
right
hand
the
position
left side
hand,
arm
which
is
now
leptic state."
An
interesting experiment
may be
tried
by
is
difficult.
is
raised,
on
induce what
and hemi-catalepsy
called hemi-lethargy
not
To
other.
81
and that
side
may be operated
The arm on
that side,
when
instance,
for
lifted,
while the
will
remain raised
side
more
interesting
remarked that
if
Some
great
man
has
is
of,
and think
just as
Look
will
feel
soon begin to
feel
is
it.
a close re-
subject as-
intellectual manifestation.
In
the somnambulistic stage patients are manipulated by speaking to them; in the cataleptic
HYPNOTISM.
82
now he
operator; but
ture.
observation
made
at
'
'The emotions
command,
them by
controls
from
ges-
own
his
by expressive move-
ments.
the
mouth
drawn
If
smiles.
If
when
a kiss
slightest variation of
the emotions.
If
wafted,
assumes an expression
is
The
astonishment.
of
movement
the
countenance
fists
is
are
reflected in
closed,
the
is
played,
if
amusing
impressions.
a smile
is
produced
it
can be
hand
is
Better
still,
it
is
to re-
once more
a double expres-
approaching the
left
left side
will smile,
83
physiognomy
The
subject can be
made
to send kisses, or to
the hand
blow;
if
is
it
will
through
He
mimicry.
producing
till
the patient
Then
unable
is
looks
If
he
rises
and
ments
mirror.
The
he were a
if
may be produced
manner.
The experiments
of
HYPNOTISM.
84
tizer,
If
the sound
the subjects
seem
is
to
heightened or increased,
receive a
The
feeling of disappointment.
developed by hypnotism
shock and a
artistic sense
disturbed;
the
and
pain.
If
the
same
soft
is
melody be again
re-
bliss
The faces
become seraphic and celestial when the subjects are by nature handsome, and when the
The
strange
part of
all this
is,
that on
shown
tions,
that
place,
and careful
what appear
such as
in
tests
to be violent
have
emo-
mask
is
in
motion.
the grace
all
of a
backward
perfect equilibrist,
mechan-
The
laws.
8*
curvature
indeed,
will,
at
"When
and her
of being
admirably
sents an
features
artistic
reproduced on canvas."
We
of
taneously
of
soap
he
is
will
its
There appears,
unconscious memory,
seem
ordinary use.
to suggest spon-
Thus,
if
a piece
move
it
around
as
though
if
there
he
is
The
if
sight of an umbrella
he were
in a storm.
HYPNOTISM.
86
son a pen
will not
letter is dictated to
make him
The
an irregular hand.
in
write, but
if
will write
may
also
This
is,
is
entirely unfamiliar.
The
state
is
is
the
can be produced
in
is
some
Patients
To
his
all
spoken
to,
same sound
but
as
and he
his voice
awake,
answers when
when awake.
is
fully
is
Yet, in
this
may
be induced
the
verbal
One
of the
command
then
is
recite
awake
some
her.
of this
mem-
to sleep.
operator.
stage of hypnotism
ory.
the
of
87
"I send
recited.
awake
her,
remember on awaking, a
commanded to
may remem-
if
patient
ber.
The
active sense,
well,
ond act
ble of
who
of the
will sing
remembering a
awake."
Says M. Richet:
incapa-
is
single note of
it
when
little.
all
this
he had
when awake
remember
the
HYPNOTISM.
88
whole
of
his
repasts for
eight days
past,
ing
Dr. Charcot,
who when
patient of
in the
children's hospi-
when
awake could not remember him, named him
at once when he entered during her hypnotic
tal,
sleep.
tried, in
M. Delboeuf
tells of
an experiment he
in the
midst
he told
had
on
fallen
fire,
Then, sud-
performance.
In the somnambulistic stage the patient
is
and
dislikes. "
The tone
of the
89
much
If
he speaks in a
what he
of
utters
is
is
if
that
The
of
will
another
is
offered,
he
which are
he
is
may be
commands
will follow
readily
in
obeys
keeping with
commanded
to
only
his character.
do something he
If
dislikes,
gether,
and
in
it
very
alto-
often going
into
hysterics.
It
was
become a
priest.
One
accept
of
a cassock and
Monsieur Richet's
moment an
and laughed
it
in the
HYPNOTISM.
99
He
suggested to a
picture
on a blank card.
On
left
was very
in her right
fine,
and
angle of her
it
was
On
raining.
in the
at the
in
dropped as
if
in
Again,
one
case wears an
One side
left
dog
her
ear,
of a
iment
"A
portrait
is
suggested to a subject
THE STAGES OF HYPNOTISM.
blank card, which
as existing on a
is
all
The
requested to
91
is
then
appearance
subject,
being
over the
look
when he
perceives
was suggested,
is
has,
owing
to
his visual
hyperacuity,
fixed
FASCINATION.
"Dr. Bre-
in
men
which he
calls fascination.
form,
which,
is
after
hypnotism
repeated
The
a state of stupor.
inventor
in its mildest
experiments,
subject fasci-
fascination
The
being in-
of a bright spot
He
follows the
HYPNOTISM.
92
pliability
does not
exist."
in
Paris
some
He would
of
large
weakening the
the concentrated
audience also
assisted in
nervous resistance.
me
The
!"
At
last
"Look
who
and
in
his victim.
CHAPTER
IV.
How
Marthieu's Experiments.
The
As may be
sup-
One
is
that of Dr.
who
self,
James R. Cocke,
by a professional magnetizer.
time
a hypnotist him-
He was
at that
theory of personal
after-
ward escaped).
On the
commanded him
ator
and
told
and
at the
HYPNOTISM.
94
felt
a tingling sensation
eyes,
which he supposed
and
in his forehead
ward he came
Then he
(After-
the operator.
says
"A
The
his part.)
operator said
'You are
You
my
was beating
heart
was going
to sleep,
rapidly,
He
sensation of terror.
I
and
felt
tell
me
my
continued to
my
eyes.
He
then
down
over
my
touch me.
He
open your
eyes.'
lids
yet
made
passes over
was conscious
mind wanted
did not want
state.
to open
my
open
to
to,
my
not.
eyes
to
of
my
so
The
my
was
my
will,
believed that
'You cannot
head,
in a
paradoxical
could open
my
eyes,
HOW THE
SUBJECT FEELS.
him
terest in
I
in
He continued
to
had no personal
any way,
but, be
power
95
to suggest to
me
in-
understood,
it
to control me.
that
was going
sleep,
The next
was
step
Then he
down.
feeling in
knew
that I
He
knew
it,
and
felt
at the
of terror increased.
my body
said
it
it
"You have no
had a feeling
though Dr Cocke
feel
said
have you?"
said
in it."
'No; yet
The operator
arm with
not
arm and
stroked the
hand
tell
a pin,
and
of
body
knew
it
that
my
to myself.
HYPNOTISM.
96
remembrance
that
This
is
the last
perience."
After
this,
doctor to do a
seemed
"It
commanded me
dropped
my
to
to
me
awake
as soon as I
On
was
blind,
was put
by fixing his
who
matter of self-hypnotism
we
The
shall consider in
another chapter.
In this connection
an
article in the
we
hypnotic subjects.
Ann
Arbor, Mich.,
effects of
While
in
music upon
Vienna he took
how
occasion
to
observe
the
closely
97
enthusiastic
He
were so exalted as
objective perceptions.
them
to supersede their
embodiment of a drama
in
all
about the
and
lived
completely
in
fairy
world
of
dream.
This observation suggested to him an interesting series of experiments.
was
easily hypnotized,
ture.
Wagner's
first
subject
"Ride
Walkure"
of
His
The
was
pulse of the
at
first
of
Then, as the
from 18
to
30 per minute.
HYPNOTISM.
98
Great excitement
subject
was
evident.
Ilis
legs
air,
in the
his
arms tossed
into the
When
the
not
as music, but
had an
most
realistic
The
air."
in
became
the
real to him,
The
which
picture soon
but in some
way
his conscious-
scene, being of
it,
spectator, as
Dr.
is
Warthin
tried
so emotional, and
more
difficulty.
the
same experiment
HOW THE
was
The
from 70
was
SUBJECT FEELS.
to
120.
The
99
sensation remembered
Only
result.
Walkure."
"To him
it
Wotan,
It
was
same music
no
special impression.
Here
is
incontestable ev-
idence that in the hypnotic state the perception of the special senses
enormously height-
is
ened.
motif).
At
site effect,
it
first it
seemed
to
was lowered.
Later
tension
was diminished.
The impression
de-
was a
feeling
moun-
was
HYPNOTISM.
100
recalled,
was played
of music
sort
(the
different
and
intense
summon Sigmund
a
to
Walhalla).
irregular,
Immediately
in the pulse.
and very
It be-
The
small.
grew
pale,
Readers
who
face
out.
Dr.
Cocke
describes
many
same
article.
peculiar
so rapidly that
him
said
and
lation
to
Says he
and
it
read
his b's
was
him read
v's,
he
for
trick
as x's.
other in-
fifteen or
as
Stimu^
I
made
HOW THE
SUBJECT FEELS.
101
curred."
of the sense
and
all
that
is
mind are
so enormously in-
him or
herself,
If
when he
is
to hypnotize
den
the
of Mrs.
Piper,
In this con-
The
CHAPTER
How
Accountable
Self-Hypnotization.
perience.
It
V.
for
Crusade.
If self-hypnotism is possible
(and
it
is
true
when he wishes
tomed
to
it
and
is
to
till
expert in
it,
so to speak)
it
all
selves
their fellows.
One
book of what he
Method."
up
He
in a separate
calls
is
walls.
notizing themselves.
He shows
is
locked
the psychic
All that he
way
of hyp-
his inconsis-
HYPNOTISM.
104
is
power;
becom-
In this he makes no
in clanger of
is
and the
Hypnotism
is
an established
scientific fact;
but the claim that the hypnotizer has any mysterious psychic
power
is
the invariable
Probably no
the charlatan.
scientific
Later
how
it
mark of
phenomto base
we
shall
this charla-
operators,
scientific
till
such deception.
self-hypnotization,
called
field
to be proof against
concealed
and
of
humbug and
charlatanism, of which
SELF-HYPNOTIZATION.
105
constantly
filled
namely,
We
may
conceive
he might be
at the start,
how
such
perfectly legitimate
at present
it
seems as
however honest
it,
power
and
imagination.
in
let
us
hypnotizing
It will
him by
telling
him
to fix his
mind on the
In
my room
to try the
the
that evening
same experiment.
number twenty-six
in
my
it
occurred to
did so.
mind.
me
kept
In a few
seemed to stand
was
still.
intensely cold.
I
My
had ringing
heart
in
my
HYPNOTISM.
106
My
ears.
I
persisted
the effort,
in
mentioned noise
The
louder.
my
in
etc., it
about
felt as
The
my
roar in
my body was
ears
fixed
grew louder
me
that
vague
in a
all
every muscle in
vivid accounts
felt
It
fearfully con-
occurred to
were beings
that there
deafening.
was
fire. I
way
Having read
scious of myself.
of dreams, visions,
scalp.
ears
became
roar
my
upon
me
but
though
and
still,
rigid.
and
Then above
and musketry.
ing
in
else.
the
The world
existed
knew
noth-
me
only
for
Then
The sound
in
my
was
lost.
were expanding.
the
seemed
Then
all
con-
experi-
SELF-HYPNOTIZATION.
Then
my
107
heard
me by
name."
The
landlord
doctor
found the
had
"as
He
says
it
sleeper.
During the
As
made
to hypnotize me.
be hypnotized.
Secondly,
wished to
is
interesting to
compare the
effects of
Dr.
Cocke
asserts that
there
is
wonderful likeness
to
De
Quincey's dreams,
HYPNOTISM.
108
sions of an English
Opium
The
the
Eater,"
all
of which
opium.
to
hypnotic condition
desire to
belief,
in
his
be hypnotized,
case,
namely,
and strained
and produce
effects
For
an exciting
relig-
Mesmer's operations
become
hysterical,
Paris.
in
or
less
hypnotized.
unusual excitement
unusual lethargy.
of intoxication
subjects
By prolonging
anything or do anything.
operation, a whole
The
by
the
all
is
commonly followed by
much
It is
in fact,
it
is
like a
wild spree
a sort of intoxi-
cation.
many of the
The wonderful
able for
tory.
(of
SELF-HYPNOTIZATION.
which we have read
109
in
name)
by the
Some
priests.
move-
of the strange
ments of whole communities during the Crusades are to be explained either on the theory
two things
same
in fact.
plain
the
On
much
the
so-called
"Children's
Crusade," in
many, from
all
classes of the
and
gles
were
all lost
community,
tried
in their strug-
Again, hypnotism
is
accountable for
Gazing steadily
many
at a
bed
last
into a
sometimes
for
Says he
"They have
it
at will.
Many
of
them
HYPNOTISM.
110
its
of imaginary beings,
faces
dome, or the
lofty
beautiful
or
de-
we have
self-hypnotism which
that of the mystic
history
in
them
the Orient
came
as real.
manifestations
is
hypnotism
prophets
much
is
easier
of the
for
in
and more
West.
The performances
perform
would be
no doubt
While
a person
the dervishes,
of
who wound
fakirs,
many wonderful
difficult for
themselves
feats
which
in part feats of
hypnotism.
in a condition of auto-hypnotization
may imagine
personality.
Says Dr.
that he
Cocke
is
:
some other
"A
curious
is
SELF-HYPNOTIZATION.
that they carry out perfectly their
of
the
personality
with
whom
thf.mselves to be possessed.
lit
own
ideals
they believe
If their
own
ideals
One man
to be
of sense.
intelligent lady
trolled
by the
who
spirit of
Cushman
Charlotte
per-
wholly
unconscious
of
events
I will
become
taking
place
from one-half
blank.
zation
to
During
I will
two hours,
will be a complete
off.
to
me by
knowing
CHAPTER
VI.
the
Professional
Charity
Subjects.
Hospital
at
How
Paris
Dr. Luys of
Was
Deceived.
It
that
make
hysterical
neuropathic
allied,
indivduals
Now
persons
it
is
a curi-
all
Expert
such characters.
who have
And
not.
HYPNOTISM.
114
Merely to
inence.
them
into
prom-
attract attention is a
mania
There
is
also
hypnoti .m, and similar subjects in which delusions c uStitute half the existence, that seems
to dest
tr>-e^r
Undoubtedly we
species of
insanity.
There
also a point at
is
scious deceiver,
At
we
will give
some
may
the close of
cases illustrat-
learn by practice
person
sits
upon them.
a kind of insan-
SIMULATION.
which
ity
shows
itself
in
115
The
deceiving.
The
time.
first
The Comtesse de
W accused
was a
case
was
thronged with
the
her maid
The
supposed
demned
to
women who
granted, at which
that the
victim.
death
but a
it
sympathized with
second
trial
was
still
lips.
In 1886 a
man
own house
in Paris,
ately to take
were removing
away
his
own
furniture.
if
he
This he did
own
premises.
HYPNOTISM.
116
Being caught
he seemed at
When
in
first to
seemed
to be in a state of abstraction;
when
medical
fell
asleep.
man attached
Dr. Gar-
to the infirmary
custody.
3.
number
One was
she had
same kind.
lady,
sell
in
for
saw
educated
shop-lifting.
made
it
about
"I
felt
SIMULATION.
117
bag, which
this I slipped
clerks
whatever
made me do
my
fastened under
it.
My
dress,
when
could take
I
and into
the
me
on."
easily be
cited.
is
Binet
and
more
now
occu-
It is
only
we
are
when he has
phenomena
that
the
to deal
operator
with
feels
feel cer
knows of
trol
ally
the case of a
tests.
man who
The
writer
throw himself
into a
profound sleep in
HYPNOTISM.
118
is
so absolutely stopped
is
not moistened in
To
felt.
all
intents
pears to be dead
life
experiment.
If
his
arms
at
full
quicken,
his
his breathing
pulse-rate
if
increase,
It
it
is
well
known
that persons
may
arms
easily
for
any
We
all
illustration in
began by carrying
would
still
rate at
a calf
if
woman
be able to carry
it
when
it
became
an ox.
In the Paris hospitals, where the greater
SIMULATION.
number of regular
been conducted,
experiments have
scientific
is
it
119
of the
all
more
demonstrations.
scientists
They know
it
difficult
themselves.
serve as an illustration
is
is
no doubt.
One
of Dr.
we
Says he
"We know
many
that
we know
ment which
in
them
is
peculiarly addicted to
is
exaggerated by the
judge of
this,
it
is necessary to
own.
To
HYPNOTISM.
120
among
and going
atti-
And
To
be fed, to be paid,
the rest of
it
all
this is
enough
enough
enable
to
a priori negation
us
we come
to
But
produce
to
Certainly not
make
to
doubt.
but
is
an
suf-
it is
And when
comes
still
greater.
onstrated?
Can we by plunging
the subject in
firm?
That
is
dem-
may
af-
and
reciprocally exclusive
SIMULATION.
who
sleeps
121
may
still
in their
whom
his
simu-
book
som-
Let us
now
Dr. Luys
hypnotism
is
and
in Paris,
is
at the
head of what
is
notical experiments.
some
In
startling results, in
still
1892 he announced
What
he was
Gazette, issue of
artificial
state
a similar
of
without suggestion
in fact,
phial
how
December
pinch of coal
and sealed
in a small
HYPNOTISM.
122
hydrophobia
symptoms of
suffocation by drowning."
the
red
flames
about
the
means of a magnet
toms of
it
south
was
pole
while
by
symp-
might be trans-
at
sick
cited in
some
recent
faith.
will
Dr. Luys
"A
tube contain-
SIMULATION.
1-23
at
Luys
was
said
uses.
The
effect
and marked
swallow
she began to
move her
lips
and to
am
quite giddy.'
T am ashamed
get gay.
'I
some of
to fall
At
first
me
she had
from the
chair,
difficulty
floor.
She
calmed."
all
when
In the presence of a
number of distinguished
HYPNOTISM.
124
was
if
what drug he
was sim-
the patient
know what
to simulate.
lows
described as fol-
is
but
alcohol,
laurel water.
to use the
was supposed
to con-
words of M. Sajous's
note, to smile
makes me
'
not tipsy,
want
to sing,'
and so on through
was
which we stopped
loth to
not
ungraceful
however, to give
this
me
valerian,
now
had
ap-
assistant,
which no doubt
went through
SIMULATION.
whole
the
fours,
She
performance.
cat
scratched, she
125
mewed, she
leapt about
she
spat,
on
all
cat-like as
and
nets
were
electric currents
tried.
"note
'She found
fascinated by
it
was
as
if
she were
delight.
Then came
the
phenomena of
the
though fascinated by
it
pole.
sion
of
what would be
Then she
fell
all
as
was turned so
the bar
She followed
attraction.
fell
fists,
backward
carried,
and as
into the
still
it
arms
showing
her chair.
until
pre-
126
HYPNOTISM.
sented to her.
attitudes of attraction,
cheeks.
'it
is
Similar but
false
in succession
with
all
the
the different
non-magnet
was
utterly unable at
any time
really to dis-
magnet or
ized
a full current
was wholly
a horseshoe
magnet carrying
cut off."
same way, through a long series of experiments, with the same results, a practical proof
that Dr.
his
totally deceived
discoveries
and
amounted
to nothing.
There
tion,
is,
dition.
Even
if
SIMULATION.
genuine
would be the
this
They were
127
rational explanation.
a case of suggestion of
some
sort,
without doubt.
Nearly every book on hypnotism gives various rules for detecting simulation of the hyp-
One
notic state.
of the
of anaesthesia.
we
if
he
is
stuck
is
insensible to pain;
sensibility also
training
tests is that
pin or pen-knife
but as
commonest
may
to control
We
their
have already
not
sufficient.
are persons
body
who
it
is
flush
at will.
article in the
"The Eternal
Cen-
Gullible," in
he
calls
L.,
subject.
This person,
whom
HYPNOTISM.
128
number of
of a
The
quoted.
whose names
are
quotation of a paragraph or
two
doctors,
article
will be
of interest.
Says he:
"The
'catalepsy business'
So
merit.
he could be
rigid did L.
ach;
it
artistic
his
muscles that
like
an Egyptian
lowed a
make
one piece
lifted in
mummy. He
had more
fairly
seemed
his heels
heavy
to
on another, and
man
to sit
on
his
al-
stom-
endurance.
to
marks of the
sibly L.
raise
teeth
had made
L. did
a
slight
were plainly
his skin so
visible."
(Pos-
tough by repeated
"One
point
in
L.'s
SIMULATION.
He
endurance of pain.
stoical
129
stood before
in different
it,
and which
to
L. allowed
pain.
wince
man-
most people
to appear;
his pulse
was
was beyond
It
does
it
may
when pain
in L. the limit of
endurance
or, in other
less
than that
At any
ance
was so remarkable
in
this
respect
his
thus
it
that
fain to
comrades
made
hypnotized
themselves
one
another,
insensible
to
and
pain.
HYPNOTISM.
130
As
know,
pain.
have
seen
man
chat
was being
tied
women
selves
will inflict
merely
excite sympathy.
selves to be
Hysterical
The
fakirs
who
allow them-
of
little
their
it
and,
much
in-
The
ceived,
fact
is,
be relied on.
If a person
can
well accustomed to
human
on
it
is
it
can be en-
SIMULATION.
tirely
obviated.
judgment
in
131
his
good
In the case
course there
And
is
possibility of deception.
little
We
phenomenon.
cite
it
peculiarities connected
The
manifestation.
deception exists
is
as a
merely as
fact
it
is
that a tendency to
interesting in itself,
and may
on the part of
There
is,
to be sure, a tendency
instead of criminals
many
CHAPTER
VII.
Criminal Suggestion.
One
notism
made during
notic condition as to
what a person
coming
after
the hyp-
carried out.
It is
will
do
may
be
He
tion.
sleep
"Whenever
him while
I
hypnotic
fall asleep.
in the
No
Whenever
133
HYPNOTISM.
134
"Suggest
fall
He
asleep."
to a subject while
he
is
says further:
sound asleep
may
your-
Sug-
when
the suggestion
is
to take effect
Suggest
come
date he will
on inside
out,
to
from a given
and he
will
most certainly do
so."
The same
were
true,
what
a terrible
wills.
power would
show
that
that
many
it
is
scientific
We
hope
we must admit
men have
tried
experi-
and
is
made
CRIMINAL SUGGESTION.
of hypnotic influence.
make
If
136
were possible
it
to
while
under
actually
hypnotic
influence
it
opei.s
yet
more
far-
Among
deeds that
sleep
is
may
whom we
have
al-
Says he
You cannot
who is incap-
from hand
to
draw up a
bill
of agreement.
holographic will
law would
to you,
(which according
and of which he
existence.
He
is
legal formalities,
will
ready to
and
will
never
fulfill
write an
to
French
hand over
know
the
the minutest
do so with a calm,
manner
calculated to de-
HYPNOTISM.
136
ceive the
These som-
officers.
make
instruments of your
E.
She
will at
may
a denunciation, or to bear
my
For
will.
instance, take
in
my
In
favor.
make
false denunciations,
an imaginary crime.
I will recall
to
your mind
was
careful to
if
it
is
Many
tried,
line
have been
CRIMINAL SUGGESTION.
may
It
137
who
person
amount
if
money
away any
to sign
who
is
really has
away.
of his
an important bearing
"A
girl
who was
Says
was
a lighted lamp.
across the
man who
told that
was a
it
suggested
supposing
stick,
it
it
was
a lighted
lamp)
at the
(she
broom-
with
much
violence.
Then
man was
that the
man
placed
the
it
of
told her
was suggested
brother.
It
was on
HYPNOTISM.
138
fire
fire
vidual, she
mentioned, that
was
it
to extinguish the
told, as
at the indi-
was previously
With-
a glass of water.
movements,
desired.
if
commanded
then
She raised
very
laughing and
hysterical,
nately.
crying alter-
Standing
notized.
made
in front of her I
commanded her
me
immediately struck at
card-board.
knife and
it.
gave her
mand, again
terical
it
was
me. She
her to strike at
raised
it
hesitated,
attack.
to stab
commanded
Again she
Im-
num-
a dagger, and
have
to execute
me
my
with
com-
similar experi-
CRIMINAL SUGGESTION.
139
Some
results.
themselves severely,
mand, but
to
am
what extent
convinced, at comI
of course cannot
say.
harm
not believe.
do
The
who
is
repugnant to him.
minded and
If a
person
is
weak-
which
If,
his
moral nature
is
by no means averse.
itself
are repugnant
fuse to do as he
is
HYPNOTISM.
140
On
authorities agree.
Again, there
is
who
woman
in Paris
hypnotized.
hypnotism existed.
In
all
class of cases,
upon
girls
weak
char-
In another
that person,
The
fact
is,
weak
which
all.
a business
man
CRIMINAL SUGGESTION.
He
141
is
A profound
made by
as has been
state,
such
the Psychic
ance, as
is
it
slumber or
in natural
in
sleep-
and
This
is
it
ten times
more
is
very
We
much
effect dur-
shall
see,
at
patient
real
is
facts
keenly
self.
the
so,
For
really conscious
in
the case
all
indeed,
much
more
if
a line
is
drawn on a
HYPNOTISM.
142
is
is
sheet of paper
no
line,
he has to see
it
told there
no
order to ignore
in
it.
Moredo
obey even
waking
in their
It
state.
"It
certain that
is
inclined to obey,
is
line; but
requires a
even during
Says a recent
we
are naturally
conflicts
the characteristics of
we
are
doomed
to
obey
"Hypnotic suggestion
few seconds,
even the
The same
a gulf."
lies
at
least of us
is
gestion
may
be repeated
but
it
is
The
in-
sug-
absolutely
argument.
it
Tf
it
is
Here
possible to
It is
for
good
weak
but there
is
is
an excellent
make
criminals
no case on record
in
CRIMINAL SUGGESTION.
which
who
a person
good
is full
wished to be bad
really
;
143
illustration
is
an experiment
by
tried
Colonel de Rochas
"An
left
excellent subject
had been
left,
after
it
the theft
was discovered.
was suggested
After he
article.
few days
while
to the subject,
the
command was
energetically and
The
impera-
theft
had
who had
sold
it
was
Yet
a third party.
all
the
As
this subject
would execute
of the
is
were ordered
window
should do
to
it,
so certain
am
HYPNOTISM.
144
either
the
that there
window
to catch
stopped in time.
interests
me
The
or that
should be
experimentalist's
own
"
CHAPTER
VIII.
in Being Hypnotized.
Condemnation of PubPerformances. A Common Sense View. Evidence Furnished by Lafontaine.
By Dr. Cour-
Dangers
lic
melles.
ger
in
By.
Dr.
Hypnotism
or Scientists.
Having considered
the dangers to
society
now
the individual
who
is
from a
may
let
hypnotism
is
We know
it
experimental insanity.
is,
in short, a
kind of
We
Several
forms of insanity
be to
us consider the
us
hypnotized.
let
mental balance.
and
in
some
HYPNOTISM.
146
thrown
agencies,
Furthermore, we
knob.
notic patient
in a
is
exertions
are nervously
Moreover,
easily impressed.
that
know
required
it
is
well
known
of hypnotic subjects
much
very exhausting, so
so
From
make
may
First, repeated
like,
which, as
we know,
ways dangerous
to
life,
or
frequently pro-
Second,
it
is
al-
influ-
This
is
just as true in
moral realm.
since
hypnotism as
Bad companions
the hypnotic
subject
especially susceptible, a
kind, a
little
little
is
it is
in the
corrupt.
And
in
a condition
association of this
DANGERS
IN
BEING HYPNOTIZED.
147
tism
is
enness
consequences.
since hypno-
Third,
is,
notizer to experiment
really in-
money
or than
amuse somebody.
It
takes
little
reflection to
ment,
either
home,
is
highly dangerous.
honest man, and a
jury
may
that,
and the
follow.
If
man
the
if
it
hypnotizer
of character,
in
the
is
not
is
an
little in-
bad hands
we
The
all.
fact
is,
however, that
of any one
who
garding him
in the
same
light as
we would one
HYPNOTISM.
148
who
ment,
gave
or
them
chloroform,
went
or
might exhibit
Honest,
idiosyncrasies.
their
At
that a
the
same
man
is
nothing wiser
to a stronger
there
time,
whom
physician in
his
own.
It is
as drugs.
same category
a safe rule to
At
murderer.
the instruments of
all
The same
is
true of
hypnotism.
Now
let
us
cite
some evidence.
Lafontaine,
facts.
He
many
of the
may
cause suffocation.
Fear
DANGERS
IN
BEING HYPNOTIZED.
149
pleted,
more
is
not com-
if
usual, congestion
may be
The
result
body
movement may be
from too
con-
head
Sometimes
it
is
the subject."
magnetized
traveler,
in a state of lethargy,
by a commercial
days
who was
waiter at Nantes,
were icy
cold,
was not
respiration
sufficient breath to
his eyes
were
dim
a glass held
and glassy."
Never-
HYPNOTISM.
ISO
theless,
to
man
life.
the awakening.
effects of the
almost
phragm
imperceptible
and
be stopped in
The
touches.
same
manner.
dia-
may
Catalepsy
phenomena."
unskilful
case
is
provoking of hypnotic
One
sleep.
it
almost
is
young professor
was
sent
at
some
in
no way upset
him
"One
in
at the sight,
even-
tavern
he
him
The boys soon got
to sleep.
was a
public experiments
day one of
subject
at a boys' school.
The
fixedly,
into the
DANGERS
habit of
to
BEING HYPNOTIZED.
IN
151
sleep,
care of a doctor."
own which
carries with
its
it
own
warning.
Says he:
"Staying
in
Kent of
at the well
had been
called
upon
was
in the
ment, and
fell
her
I sat
mesmerized.
down
thought
in front of a lighted
into a
profound
had previous-
was
candle which
she
house
suffering,
this a
and to
to set to sleep,
asleep
which lasted
When
was informed
I re-
that she
HYPNOTISM.
15H
had great
night
there
unluckily,
from the
and
did she
become
which
ence,
case, that I
my
to
up
to
be
led
confusion, that
So
her.
susceptible
supposed mesmeric
influ-
was the
from exercising or
far
to
was very
and,
party,
had
my
table, alleging, to
That
her.
Presently she
became drowsy,
again
awaking
difficulty in
it
London.
was out
left,
my
at-
rid-
and as we
host,
who was
train,
he would like
I
dismounted
window
but unfortunately in
it
of the
seems that
young
twice
lady's car-
into a sleep
DANGERS
IN BEING HYPNOTIZED.
153
days afterward."
In commenting on
in reality
mesmerism
rectly against
it,
this,
is
has no effect
if
di-
of
it.
Says he
"So long
my
my
getic willing in
was
she
that
The most
ener-
it,
stillness,
employed."
The dangers
nized by the law of every civilized country except the United States,
per-
who complained
of headache, vertigo,
HYPNOTISM.
154
symptoms
after hav-
remedied by
suggestion."
more
more
dividual. It
it
"There
all
is
one
the rest.
It
to the
is
in-
human
progress
due enthusiasm.
individuals will
It is
un-
It is
its
come
to stay.
grow,
but, if
It is yet in its
it
were possible to
kill
it,
it
would
its
in
The whole
devotees.
and alluring.
It
field is
promises so
fascinating
much
that
it
is
to
harm may
result.
DANGERS
This
BEING HYPNOTIZED.
IN
mental therapeutics
is
155
from
to fear
who
He
it
who
"While hypnotism
degree by every
in a greater or less
understand,
only hypnotism
not
itself,
is
is
will.
Says he
number of hypnotized
subjects)
hypnotic trance.
creases in
when he
I
any way
in this.
less
is
that hypno-
capable of exer-
relieved
from the
it
in-
susceptibility to or-
HYPNOTISM.
166
However,
in regard to the
dangers of public
Cocke
Says he
equally positive.
is
"The dangers of
public exhibitions,
made
condemned
be
by
much
self so
as
men and
intelligent
all
from the
it-
of the per-
liability
mass of
individuals which
ill-balanced
society." In
This
is
eat, if
much
is
relief of
if stale,
lives,
may,
if
if
too
act,
injury.
in closing that
it
article
overdone, be-
when
or
Every
come an
Every
man.
wrongly prepared,
em-
we
is
hypnotism
misused, or
is
when
let
me
state
dangerous only
it
is
applied to
DANGERS
IN
BEING HYPNOTIZED.
unsound
we
especially
call credulity
if
who
157
are inherently
of the mind."
CHAPTER
IX.
Anaesthesia
tism
may
It
is
well
that hypno-
Thus numerous
to pain.
known
the
startling experiments
are performed in public, such as running hatpins through the cheeks or arms, sewing the
tongue
spot only.
The
may
curious part of
it is
be confined to one
felt.
This
About
chloroform, ether,
the year
general
use
etc.
for
might come
producing insensibility
158
HYPNOTISM.
160
Dr. Guerineau in
The thigh
of a patient
was amputated.
Turning
The
my
he were in heaven,
to a medical student, he
was aware of
any
if
all
that
that I
is
He
felt.
added
to me,
it.
cut
if I felt
"
writer
who
records
this
case contin-
ues:
stage.
It
that a consid-
medical
men had
recourse to a
certain
method
that
means of
One
saw the
is,
rise
chloroform.
and
fall
Thus
of Braidism
surgical anaesthesia."
HYPNOTISM
IN MEDICINE.
161
"On
1887, a
came
me and
to
asked
me
young
to take off a
little
wen
the size of
walnut.
"I
was
reluctant to
it,
Finding that
patient
was
easily hypnotizable,
I tried
my
promised to
manner and
placed
him
in a chair
and
Two
and Colombo l who were present during the operation, declared that the subject lost all sensibility
and that
his
different positions in
muscles retained
felt
the
saw nothing,
all
The
patient
HYPNOTISM.
162
his
brain
in
communication only
we had
remaining
with me.
"As soon
patient
as
influence of
him
said to
'You
will
made
"I
a transversal incision
two and a
half
cers,
ing, without
patient
was
making
still
a single ligature.
To
sleeping.
dage around
his head.
the operation
The
maintain the
fastened a ban-
'Lower your
etc.,
When
and he obeyed
like
'Now, wake
up.'
an automaton.
I said to
him,
HYPNOTISM
"He
163
on
IN MEDICINE.
foot, as if
felt
suffer,
tried
many
extensively for
cases of fail-
curing
many
may
There
is
no
be extremely useful
is
is
the
and
entirely unaffected
Ordinary
nary therapeutic
means.
in despair,
by the ordidoctors
easily
were a
effects a cure.
HYPNOTISM.
164
manage cases
By way of
two
know how
to
like that.
illustration,
we quote
reports of
cases,
The following
is
became
a patient of
mine
ity hospital to
cident arising
while there
attacks
of
was suddenly
hystero-epilepsy,
and
finally
which
con-
first
reduced them to
complete immobility.
My
intention
had vainly
remedy usual
was
first
im-
in
such
to restore the
who was
and then,
at the
moment suggest
HYPNOTISM
"The
and the
IN MEDICINE.
165
patient
first
were produced.
of somnambulism she began to move, and unconsciously took a few steps across the ward.
Soon
after
it
was suggested
the
locomotor
was complete.
we had
The
patient
fancied she
in this
her to walk.
was somebody
else,
roundabout manner,
by
sciatica,
was brought
"He
'Lie
HYPNOTISM.
166
down,
my
you.'
Dr. Bernheim
poor friend;
'You
sible, doctor.'
see,
but
I tell
you,
we
shall
On
The
lepsy,
old
man
looked
Strangely enough,
and stubborn.
impos-
is
'Yes,
will see.'
'That
says.
we
soon relieve
will
me
to
said to him,
But
'Now
do an impossible
he
you
thing.'
Al-
skill.
After
and
walk; get
follow;
'I
in a sharp,
'Very
up.'
must
if
you
No
well,'
insist
tell
replied
upon
it.'
the old
And
he
HYPNOTISM
IN MEDICINE.
Monsieur Bernheim
'You
He
had
me
tell
move.
161
to
or-
do what
go to bed
to be allowed to
he maintained an obstinate
and
ill-tempered
air."
"Hallucinations,"
who
delirium.
They
They occur
result
from an impoverished
belladonna,
if it is
due
to
hyoscyamus,
stramonium,
common among
as a result of fever
says
many more
might be mentioned."
HYPNOTISM.
168
by hypnotism,
and
successful
might be quoted.
There
unsuccessful,
no doubt that
is
may
help
when
many
especially
when
in the brain,
even
if it
hypnotism
in
gone
all;
but
farther,
mental treatment
can be practiced at
is
of
little avail,
all.
will be interesting.
Says he
simple
sufIt
waking condition,
and make
moved
HYPNOTISM IN MEDICINE.
by the
solely
cerebral docility;
tivity
ter
it
increases
it
ac-
But the
lat-
persists to
169
will.
more
readily
ways
al-
sleep.
In these cases
we must know
the pa-
con-
dition, in order to
him."
Bad
Habits.
The
excessive
habit of the
notism,
may
if
method of operation
is
nausea,
or
if
article
he takes
other
when he
on awaking he
The
simple.
it
he
is
is
in
deep
will feel a
in the habit
will be affected
unpleasant symptoms.
The
operator
result
by
In
takes place,
at all
HYPNOTISM.
170
himself anxious to
is
is
as bad as ever.
which he reports
book on hyp-
notism.
was
in detail in his
successful
in
some
His
may
made a very
after
all,
effective aid to
character
is
the chief
force which
morphine habit
is
more or
fixed.
The
tor's prescription at
ticed
be
some
time,
and
less involuntarily.
it
is
prac-
Such cases
The same
is
fective
aid
character
is
to
moral influence.
the stronger
in as
an
ef-
Here again
HYPNOTISM
IN MEDICINE.
171
book on "Hypnotism"
hypnotism
in
interesting
to the use of
details
the
reader
is
referred
to
CHAPTER
Hypnotism
We
are
all
of Animals.
X.
Snake
Charming.
much hypnotism
it
there
would be hard
bird
is
in these
is
to say.
fascinated to
It is
How
performances
probable that a
some extent by
the steady
will certainly
first
to try a familiar
If
you hold
draw
a chalk line
from the
when
same position
for
slowly away, as
if
some
Far-
when
to transfer
sitting.
173
from one
HYPNOTISM.
174
and fro
when
will
she
till
may
after
its
We
have
all
ever.
show
some
that the
We
at all.
have some
fairly well
hypnotism produced
the magnetizer,
lic
it
some
known
instances of
animals.
Lafontaine.
thirty years
in
HYPNOTISM OF ANIMALS.
cats, dogs, squirrels
and
175
blows.
The Harvys
W.
of tetanus, says E.
The following
Lane.
Morocco,
"The
will be of interest
principal
kind of frenzied
in a
naked arm
his
able to swell
scales
which
its
which cover
it,
and which
thought to
is
In
Morocco
charmer
it
is
known
folded and
black viper, as
is
if it
as
the
buska.
unfolded the
The
greenish-
he
HYPNOTISM.
176
rolled
it
like a
and seemed
position,
to follow every
move-
it
itself straight
on end,
in the atti-
to left, follow-
The
Aissoua,
narrowing
circles,
venomous
long,
whose shining
Sous;
ser-
two or three
scales are
spotted
is
fire
Europeans now
"The two
leffahs,
call
it
it
This
of
an-
the leffah.
less
heads on one
side,
HYPNOTISM OF ANIMALS.
of the dancer.
* *
177
Hindoo charmers
are
still
down
at the
same
time,
lie
tame animals.
known
These
to bite
ser-
their
charmers.
It is
well
known
that
some animals,
but
to
hypnotism
Whether
is
doubt-
ful.
for
compared
like the
tism.
sleep
their fat,
CHAPTER
A
Scientific
XI.
Explanation of Hypnotism.
Theory.
Dr.
Hart's
tism.
summary
There
complex
state
way
offhand
is
which cannot
is
be explained in
in a sentence or two.
There
an
are,
we may
what
First,
is
mouth
"Now,
statement, as
I
am
going
you
when
to cut
word of
a physician says,
your leg
in the least,"
off,
but
it
suffers nothing?
the lead-
HYPNOTISM.
180
phenomena
chical
reports the
in this country,
following experiments
"Make
and
the subject
tell
it is
what he
sees.
new
the
He
may
ranged.
which he
to
be, or in
Similarly,
is
it,
like
if
one by one
original
how numerous
one
the next
ar-
blind, be
doubled by a prism of
now
in
sees
which
in the direction
it
in
order to ignore
it.
Make
a red cross,
on
a sheet of
A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
he
will,
sheet,
on transferring
see
He
sensibility.
He
nize
cross.
has
as
it
it
felt
181
it;
it.
refused to recog-
were."
notism which we
may
is
evidently incomplete.
it
He
which we
all
exert
it,
"We
will
Says he:
it
known under
a varied jargon
mask
HYPNOTISM.
182
such
lic
names
as
mal magnetism,
aliases
such
jective.
tures
It
it
electro-biology, ani-
faith trance,
a condition, I say,
is
always sub-
is
it
inanimate objects
upon
it,
whether
silk
or
We
can
We
we can
if
"What
does
all
this
mean?
will refer to
A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
and
date,
which
planation.
will,
First,
let
think, help to
is
an ex-
us recall something of
The
of ordinary sleep.
183
a complicated organ,
localiza-
brain, as
made up
you know,
internally of
functions
rich
in
with microscopic
terminate.
At
cells, in
numbers of small
profuse blood
arterial vessels,
carrying a
mass,
and
tracts,
at
com-
capable of
contraction in
small
may,
bloodless, while
may simultaneously
Now, if the brain
HYPNOTISM.
184
or any part of
it
of blood through
bloodless, or
if it
it,
or be rendered partially
if it
be subjected to
upon ceases
The
tions.
which
is
its
activity
and
cir-
tity of
culating.
we
If
to
form the
within the
spoken,
blood
skull
and
we
of
have already
duce insensibility.
sciousness
which
lost.
Thought
And
if
we
is
knows, pro-
abolished, con-
life
and
A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
185
are
quickly
stopped
sues.
"We know
by observation
in cases
where
mm or
face,
is
in animals, that
which
in health
and
its
convoluted sur-
in the
waking
state
from the
work of
capillary arteries
almost bloodless.
It is
in these
we
upper convo-
know,
also
that the
ness
fades
is
is
may
and
sub-
HYPNOTISM.
186
The
pain.
follow
more slowly
we may induce
hallucinations by introduc-
hemp
scious of the
or stramonium.
arterial
But we are
we know,
can,
sleep,
as
we say
retire into a
selves
we
We
ordinary language.
in
darkened room,
we
free ourselves
We
relieve our-
special senses,
noises,
We
lie
more or
less well.
Some
peo-
mechanism of
sleep.
A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
187
brougham.
This
self-hypnotization,
it
so to speak, a process of
is,
and
to house,
have amused
my
when
in
sometimes
(We
do not think
also
know
it
that
very
many
persons can wake at a fixed hour in the morning by setting their minds upon
going to
sleep.)
which deserves a
which
it
little
there
is
is
just before
something here
fully at present.
of what
Now,
it
to develop
meant by
reflex action.
The nerves
flected
waves of impulse.
known
188
HYPNOTISM.
as goose-skin.
The
end
in the skin
irritation
of the nerve-
ter.
if
still
hotter
or have given
dreams of walk-
Vesuvius or Fusiyama.
may be produced, or
places
may
arctic regions
in
"Here, then,
anism
in the
it is
body,
seen that
known
we have
mech-
to physiologists as
a series of muscular
member
contractions.
And
cular and
contractile
re-
mus-
A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
the consciousness, or
is
in abeyance.
when
the consciousness
example
189
ena
I
interpreted,
mesmerism and
in explanation of
from the
phenomena of hypnotism,
electro-biology.
take
will
Carpenter
hungry man
sees food, or
when,
W.
book
When
or
false,
let
into a cookshop, he
us say, a
becomes
mean?
It
means
What
does this
the
is
and
sent a
and
quickened
190
HYPNOTISM.
their secretion.
Here we have,
then, a purely
subjective
is
is
quite ignorant,
we have
lution of thought,
and
or
is
"Here, then,
we have something
phenomena
to the
phenomena
like a clue
which,
as
common
with mesmeric
electro-biology.
ceeded
theory
ally
in
We have
sleep,
hypnotism or
already,
hope, suc-
proved to be
false
is
to say,
experiment-
A SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.
the subject.
in the
We
mind of
now
19)
produce sleep
slumber, either by total deprivation or by excessive increase or local aberration in the quantity
is
or quality of blood.
possible to produce
sensibility
carotid
In a like
manner
it
in-
Here again
the consciousness
may
coma
or
hallucination
is
be
whom
produced,
may remain
own
volition."
is
that hypnotism
from parts or
in-
HYPNOTISM.
192
creasing
it
in other parts.
This theory
is
borne
some peo-
ple
things, or calling
up certain
will
known
is
due
to the
of the blood-vessels.
subject
is
pale.
made
Certain
Now,
if
to blush
since blushing
to be
ideas.
are
that
We may
keep
it
out until he
is
told to let
it
in again.
CHAPTER
XII.
It
seem
to
They can
ception
is
There
of.
a supersensory per-
beyond the
most highly developed condition of the ordinary senses, such as being able to
tell
at
distance.
is
doing
clearly
a great
it
did
is
known
as telepathy
HYPNOTISM.
194
in a scientific
way by
such phenomena
the investigation of
them
them
is
to
some
extent,
and
a natural corollary
notic influence.
little
to
go on
in
conducting
artificial
means,
re-
strictive conditions.
We
will
first
per-
The
first
case
his
was
own
lips.
BIRDS.
195
hysterical tremor.
and accidentally
it,
As
mouth.
spice,
the doctor
he
was
at
once
Nothing
was hypnotized,
let in his
mouth.
The
girl at
her mouth.
her,
and the
enne pepper
himself.
No
experiment
cried
in
his
severely burning
mouth,
at the time.
The
girl
immediately
be awakened.
The burning
in
her
mouth
to
dis-
appeared as soon as she came out of the hypnotic state, but the doctor continued to suffer.
HYPNOTISM.
196
The
successful.
com-
plete failures.
may
the
of
own words
remain perfectly
me
and locked
went
it;
room and
first a
me
room
down from
owned by
went back
"I
end of this
experience.
took
for five
still
at the
experiments
my
to
a child in
subject and
"He
said I
took
down from
cloth, a long,
engine.
wanted
know
what.
smooth
all
asked him
the shelf.
These were
experienced.
ticles
closet.
He
if
how
asked him
tin.
He
hands touched
it I
toy as
his hands.
made by me while
Now
rattle.
in the closet
it
from
distant
me two
slight.
had never
as he
visited the
was
know
us,
which made no
slippers
was
was very
was
As my
took
knew
them with
said:
was simply
he
felt
197
noise.
had on
The
light
subject
carefully observed
Many
Persons
able to
similar experiments
in
tell
are on
record.
tell
the pages of
bers of
all
sorts of articles.
in
While
in
num-
London
HYPNOTISM.
198
A queer old
Italy,
gree.
and as
ture, the
hava
to
young
this peculiar
power.
was a valuable
it
was
from
piece of furni-
forehand in any
way
be-
cret spring
1639.
It
is
son in
more
mind of any
Italy,
one, unless
power
it
given
It is
remarkable supersensory
enabled
reading
through
the
wood.
We may
class of
now
phenomena
of great interest,
and that
199
of friends
who
mind of a person
in the
waking
state
It
effort
might
At
moment
mental effort
any other
more
is
and
time,
likely
it
is
at
rises to the
its."
The
moment.
natural
ordinary mind
This supposition
is
is,
explanation that
of course, "Spir-
strengthened by the
and
is
not
may
mind, just as
we may
in
have seen
it till
we
HYPNOTISM.
200
ob-
served.
The
We
title,
January
"On one
my
drawing room
p.
m.,
was
sitting in
thoughts entirely
occupied.
which
uncle.
Pie
I
was
then looked at
his
although
tall,
thin
to the
recognized as belonging to
membered
fectly,
wore
and
suddenly
table.
1886.
4,
features
I
quite a child.
him
my
great-
and
closely
re-
roll
of
agitated.
was not
lieved he
his
illness.
father,
my
then appeared
but
said,
still
home.
my
He
and
dis-
then
left
he wanted
if
was not
more
firmly be-
knowing then of
uncle, not
asked him
who, as
tressed,
alarmed, as
in the least
was
201
at
agitated
He
made no remark.
it
was
was no appearance of
there
either in
mud
or rain.
when my
the funeral.
On
a very
his
He
having walked
father brought
I
it
recognized
home
My
by the next
post,
had died
eral times in
"I
roll
neither
father bad a
at
once
in Leicestershire.
arrival
was
told
and a
asking him to go
ill
after
letter
wet day,
had no umbrella,
which
stick,
him by name
sev-
of paper
may mention
my
father
his pillow.
was
his only
HYPNOTISM.
202
to think that he
acy.
is
leg-
friends, he
was
it
good
he wished to
late,
answer
In
my
"I told
Miss L. adds
the
rived,
all
to inquiries,
of
and also
whom
to dismiss
it
my
from
once about
news
ar-
now
are
at
the
dead.
They advised me
my memory,
my
me
it
perament.
"I
am
my memory
as
day, although so
if
The
many
Neither have
203
and as
in
broad daylight,
the
'Illustrated
my
Hundreds of
made
may
occur
Such
ment
That things of
in the
certain
this
kind do
facts as these
ference.
may
fancy.
thought trans-
resulted.
It
was never
Just
why
who
success
would be hard
to say.
The
writer once
in
it
made
When
HYPNOTISM.
204
if
match
his brother
he found
gave the
clue.
For
naming
any word
comes
in
son.
If
you have
sciously contract.
wrong
the letters.
letters
By giving
make them
attention to the
contract on the
CHAPTER
The
Confessions of
XIII.
The
thoroughly
investigated by
the
Society for
was such
as to preclude fraud.
many
Piper, of Boston.
This
For
and the
of the Society for Psychical Research,
members of that society were able to study her
through a
case under every possible condition
205
HYPNOTISM.
206
to give
own
signature which
is full
of interest.
go
will
toward
far
and experiences
general
furnishing the
phenomena.
and
on Pinckney
lived
Hill.
street,
not until
born.
May
little
more than
it
first
remember
"I
gone to Dr.
J.
back of Beacon
1881, and
in
first
it
child
month
was
was
later,
on
trance experience.
the date distinctly,
after
my
tailor,
first
my
first
child."
birthday
She had
few minutes.
On
the following
Sunday
CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM.
She appears
sciously.
to
things, none of
it
which she
to herself.
again.
when
of a merchant,
it
a real medium of
must
The atmos-
full
communication had
spirit
first dollar.
it
been found.
sitting,
Not long
said, assured
re-
and
uncon-
it
had been
207
down
own
will.
go into
She would
sitter opposite,
and
her.
There
sitters
how
pired.
At any
she
knew when
rate,
when
the time
came around
HYPNOTISM.
208
she awoke.
has said
"At
my
first
when
I sat in
my
the action
struggle.
always
felt
an anesthetic, but of
as
were undergoing
if I
late years I
have slipped
head for-
ward.
On coming
dazed.
At
was
Then
all
I
phrases.
state,
first I
out of
it
felt
gibberish, nothing
stupid and
but
gibberish.
it
well."
who
It
it,
except
trance state.
standing her
word of
Italian,
could
Ital-
indeed
.in
her
in under-
sitter.
who was
French
CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM.
physician
who had
died
209
long before.
number of
His
years.
finally
by "Imperator" and
"Rector."
As
Dr.
Hodgson,
of
London Society
for
don
to be studied.
the
American
ceived a salary to
sit
full
of the things
if
full
of mystery.
But
HYPNOTISM.
210
messages are
spirit
Here
of triviality.
with nonsense,
filled
and
a specimen
is
at least
a fair
specimen, too
Pelham gave.
He
referred to a certain
Pelham
He was
know.
am
both he and
all.
will be interested, I
I
I
than
difficulties.
was shut up
was
Well,
it
far clearer
in the
in-
know
correct these?
am
Comical weather
mehim
many
in the
reported to
is
It
on
all
points
No,
'See here,
but pass
know
all
my
imperfections by.'
that
as
well
as
Well,
it
that way.
a critic's eye,
Of
course, I
anybody on your
I
think
so.
I tell
CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM.
you, old fellow,
tle
errors too
don't do to pick
it
much when
brain enough,
know,
lit-
enough and
light
understand
to
these
You have
all
211
my
expla-
it
Some
a little too
that
Or we can suppose
ing.
We
was dream-
in
mix-
her mind.
that as testimony
look on
all
can-
scious expression of
my
subliminal
self,
writ-
My own
mind.
in a trance
latent in
HYPNOTISM.
212
2.
sitting.
3.
who was
try-
somewhere
else in the
Writing
in
world."
Review
Psychological
the
in
is
no ordinary
to explain
its sin-
ment cf her
lection of distinct
communicating
"The
spirit
triviality,
memory
think of as the state of the departed, and coupled with a pretension to impress one, a disposition to 'fish'
essential
hollowness
more painful
still.
which
is,
if
anything,
to resort
CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM.
to the theory that,
probably are
213
spirits,
is
phenomenon
is
etc., in
which
clothed."
James concludes
"The world
we
evidently
is
it,
the
absolute
we
than
are
wont
Mrs. Piper
"Of what
period
I
is
to think it."
occurs after
remember nothing
me.
nothing of what
said to me.
am
but a pas-
me during
a trance.
inspired
tirely
beyond
my understanding.
is
en-
do not pre-
HYPNOTISM.
214
tend to understand
tion
simply
it,
know
power of
wish."
know."
Professor Hudson, Ph.D., LL.D., author of
as
He
begins by saying
now
is
must be admitted
that
prob-
if
and
cannot be
Then he goes on
"A few
to the scientific
mind
that her
make
it
clear
phenomena can
"Man
is
CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM.
215
The
objective
mind
is
normally unconscious
The
is
gestion,
and
it is
exclusively
faculty of telepathy.
"An
entranced psychic
is
dominated exclu-
abeyance.
Hence she
is
herself to be a spirit,
gestion
is in
any way
automatically
"She
ries
is
is
in
acts
and reason
is
in
controlled by sugges-
compelled to believe
good or bad,
if
that sug-
imparted to her,
and she
accordingly.
But she
is
also
What
or unconsciously
perfect),
is
(subjective
memory being
HYPNOTISM.
216
"Thus
far
no
what
will gainsay
have
But
said.
it
some-
sitter
Does
it
could ever
necessarily
formation?
'last ditch'
of spiritism.
it
is
obviously
is
in the former.
Thus,
tele-
messages
at
any
may
It
follows that
self-evident
case that
may
it
is
is
valid
and
its
validity
impossible to imagine a
logical principles."
CONFESSIONS OF A MEDIUM.
the ordinary reader as good.
may
It
217
be simpli-
however, thus
fied,
We may
hypnotizes herself.
mind
in
is
In that condi-
an exalted
state,
hand or
asleep,
at a distance.
made
to
fit
the
we regard mediums
as persons
who have
of doing what
we know
persons
At
fectly.
warns
us,
the
same
we must
time, as Professor
are
it.
THE END.
mind
James
is
far
accustomed
to
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