sia.--Restoring the Use of Musc

eeks or arms, sewing the tongue to the ear, etc. The curious part of it is that the insensibility may be confined to one spot only. Even persons who are not wholly under hypnotic influence may ha

operation: The thigh of a patient was amputated. "After the operation," says the doctor, "I spoke to the patient and asked him how he felt. He replied that he felt as if he were in heaven, and he seized hold of

time and a good deal of preparation were necessary to induce the patients to sleep, and medical men had recourse to a more rapid

tism as an anaesthetic was presented to the Hypnotic Cong

n M--. came to me and asked me to take off a wen he had on his forehead, a

ied a short hypnotic experiment. Finding that my patient was easily hypnotizable, I

e present during the operation, declared that the subject lost all sensibility and that his muscles retained all the different positions in which they w

ypnotic slumber, I said to him: 'You will sleep for a quarter of an hour,' knowing that the

d and applied a dressing, without making a single ligature. The patient was still sleeping. To maintain the dressing in proper position, I fastened a bandage around his head. While going through the

othing and did not suffer, and he went away

was removed and the cicatrix

ut with many cases of failure, which got into the courts and t

hing is the matter with him when he is not really affected. Cases of that description are often extremely obstinate, and entirely unaffected by the ordinary therapeutic means. Ordinary doctors abandon the cases in despai

uccessful and one unsuccessful. The following is from a repo

treatment for some accident arising from pulmonary congestion, and while there was suddenly seized with violent

s. My intention was first to restore the general constitution of the subject, who was greatly weakened by her protracted stay in bed,

a few steps across the ward. Soon after it was suggested--the locomotor powers having recovered their physical functions--that she should walk when awake. This she was able to do, and in some weeks the cure was complete. In this case, ho

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,

ses that can be and those that cannot be cured by h

ever and frequently accompany delirium. They result from an impoverished condition of the blood, especially if it is due to starvation, indige

ghter forms of partial insanity, hypnotism may help many patients, though not all; but when the disease of the brain has gone farther

by Dr. Bernheim will b

condition, the moral individuality of each subject persists according to his character, his inclinations, his impressionability, etc. Hypnosis does not run all subjects into a uniform mold, and make pure and simple automatons out of them, moved solely by the will of the hypnotist; it increases cerebral docility; it makes the automatic activity preponde

tizes the subject, and when he is in deep sleep suggests that on awaking he will feel a deep disgust for the article he is in the habit of taking, and if he takes it will be affected by nausea, or other unpleasant symptoms. In mo

ng to lack of moral stamina in the patient himself. His conclusions seem to be that hypnotism may be made a very effective aid to moral suasion, but after all, character is the chief force which throws off such habit

ned by the stronger nature, and hypnotism may come in as an effective

pnotism" to the use of hypnotism in medical practice, and for fur