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:r V Boston Medical Library 8 The Fenway Boston Medical Library in the Francis A.Countwdy Library of Medicine -Boston Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School http://www.archive.org/details/hypnotismhypnotiOOroch HYPNOTISM AND HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION A SaENTIFIC TREATISE ON THE USES AND POSSIBILITIES OF HYPNOTISM, SUG- GESTION AND ALLIED PHENOMENA. BY THIRTY AUTHORS. EDITED BY E. VIRGIL NEAL, A. M., LL. D., AND CHARLES S. CLARK, M. A. FIFTH EDITION—SIXTH THOUSAND. NEW YORK STATE PUBI^ISHING COMPANY, Rochester, N. Y. COPTEIGHTED 1900, BY THE New Yobk State Publishij^g Co. INTRODUCTORY. The character of the contributors of this work is sufficient guarantee of its scientific presentation of the subject of Hypno- tism. It is designed as a compendium of this science. 'No trutk has been knowingly omitted ; no error wittingly included. "While- the authors may differ in opinion in regard to the real underlying, cause of much of the phenomena, it will be observed that they^ are practically agreed on the main points at issue. This work coming as it does from the pens of the most eminent scholars and scientists of the present century, must dis- pel all doubts as to the reality of hypnotism, and its claim for & place among the sciences of to-day.—Editors. — CONTENTS EYPNOTIS]*:: BY DIKECT SUGQESTIOls^. By E. W. SCRIPTURE, Ph. D., Tale University. PAGES, IvTotliing unnatural or occult in the phenomena of hypno- tism—Present Mysteries in Conformity with the Laws of ^Nature—Essential Factors of Hypnotism—Giving Sug- gestions—An Experiment—^'Suggestionizing" Large Classes of People—Control of Hearers— by Orators, Preachers, and Singers—An Licident "jSTot Guilty" Cause of Suggestibility—Explanation of Cures Per- formed at Religious Shrines—ISTatural leaders of men gain attention and confidence of others—Uses of Sugges- tionizing—Bad Habits Cured—Suggestion Without Hypnotizing—The Defects of Character Bemedied Fundamental Principles of Character the Besult;i of Suggestion—Timidity and Bashfulness Cured 1-4 SUGGESTIOi^ AS USED AA^D MISUSED m CVBING DISEASE. By W. P. CARR, M. D., Professor of Physiology, Columbian University, Surgeon to the Emergency Hospital, District of Columbia, Associate Surgeon to the University Hospital. The Connecting Link Between Mind and Matter—Two Brains—Application of JSTerve Force—Telepathy—^Mag- netic Affinity of Minds—All Persons Subject To Sug- gestion—Wonderful Cures by Hypnotism—Eemoval of Tumors, Imaginary and Peal—Suggestion as an Adjimct in the Treatment of Disease—All Physicians Should Use Suggestion—Deception ISTof ]^ecessary 5-17 —• VI • CONTENTS. SOME mWOTED ASPECTS OF HYPITOTISM. By ERNEST CARROLL, MOORE, LL. D., Ph. D., Department of Philos- ophy of the University of California. PAGES. An Analysis of Hypnotism—^Ideas Are Forces—The Amazing Credulity of Men—All Men At All Times Open To Suggestion—Susceptibility To Influence in the "Waking State-—Mind Controls Man—Strength, Eather Than Weakness of Will, Marks a Good Subject—^Pop- ular Oratory Called "Spell Binding"—The Deceiving of the People AH the Time a Factor—The Power To Make Converts—The Line Which Divides Suggestion From Hypnotism 18-23 AlsTIMAL HYPl^OTISM. By ROBERT M. YERKES, A. M., Harvard University. Hypnosis in the Crayfish—Sitting Hen Readily Changed from ISTest to I*^est—Braid's Method—Luy's Rotating Mirror—Kataplexie—Wild Animals More Susceptible —The Central ISJ'ervous System 24-31 HOW TO COIS^TROL PEOPLE IN THEIR WAKING STATE. By E. VIRGIL, NEAL, A. M., LL. D. Controlling People Without Their Knowledge—Against Their Will—Unconscious Use of Hypnotism—A Posi- tively Certain Method—How To Give Suggestions— The Power of Fascination—Everybody a Hypnotist K'ew and Improved Methods—How To Be Sure of Suc- cess—Entertainments, Scientific Demonstrations—Orig- inal and Absolutely Certain Methods of Controlling People in the "Waking State 32-43 HYPNOTISM. By CARL, SEXTUS. The Three States—Cataleptic, Lethargic and Somnambu- listic—The Study of Hypnotic Suggestion Should Be Obligatory in Medical S(;hools—Curing by the Royal Touch—Thoughts Are Things—Thought Waves—Auto- ——'• CONTENTS. Vll PAGES. or Self - Hypnotism—Hypnotism and Telepathy—Hyp- notism at a Distance—Curing Disease at a Distance Telepathy—Soul-sen -^iiveneps—Mistaken Intellect 49-94 SUGGESTION m TKAlsTCE PHEI^OMEITA. By H. S. DRAYTON, M. D., of Bellevue Medical College, New York City. The I^Tancy Method—Charcot, Braid, Liebault—The Pro- duction of Trance—The Doctrine of Eluid Eorce Methods Commonly Employed for Hypnosis—An Ex- periment—The Eelation of Eapport Between Subject and Agent—The Somnambulistic State—The Psychic Elements of the Human Soul—Belief of Persons Under ." the Control of Others ,. 95-102 MOBBID SUBJECTIVE IMPBESSIONS AITD THEIE ERADICATION THBOUGH HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION. By ALFRED REGINALD ALLEN, M. D., Assistant in Neurology at the Philadelphia Polyclinic Hospital. Hysteria—Disorders of the Subjective Mind—Bemedies and Besults—Some Cases Cited—A Peculiar Case—The Subjective Mind Gathers Information of Which the Ob- jective Mind is Ignorant—Delusions Disoelled—Tact a Necessity—Treatment of Children Subject to Night Ter- rors—The Attributes of the Successful Operator. .103-108 SUGGESTIVE THEEAPEUTICS. By THOS. F. ADKIN. Treatment Similar in All Diseases—Power of Suggestion— Headache—Rheumatism—^Heart Disease—Paralysis— Stomach Trouble—Pains in the Back—Hypnotism inj Anesthesia—Surgery—Suggestion in Dentistry—Per- nicious Habi:s—Tobacco Habit in All Its Forms Morphine Habit—Auto- and Self-Hypnosis 109-116 —- Viii CONTENTS. HYPl^OTISM AS AK AID. IN MEDICINE. By G. S. LINCOLN, M. D. PAGES. Hypnotic Suggestion Cures—Cures Effected by Readjusted Eorces—Influence of Auto-Suggestion — Confidence versus Skill—Suggestion Never Poisonous—Can Always Be Used—Fallacies of Christian Scientists—Suggestions in the Waking State . 117-119 HOW TO HYPNOTIZE DIEEICULT SUBJECTS. By L. B. HAWLET, M. D., New Tork Polyclinic College. Instantaneous Hypnotism—Hypnotism and Surgery— Every Person a Subject by Charpentier's Method Value of This Method to the Experimenting Operator Instantaneous Hypnotism and Post-Hypnotic Suggestion —A Certain Method of Hypnotizing Kefractory Sub- ". jects When All Other Methods Fail . 120-122 PERSONAL MAGNETISM. By CHAS. S. CLARK, M, A. Uses of Personal Magnetism—Historical Illustrations Hypnotism Related to Personal Magnetism—^Relation of Will-Power to Personal Magnetism—Capable of Cul- tivation—How to Cultivate It—Methods Employed Practical Explanations 123-129 HYPNOTIC STATES AND THEIR NEXT OF KIN. By W'M. ROMAINE NEWBOLD, Ph. D., University of Pennsylvania. Salient Phenomena of the Hypnotic State—The Agencies Used in the Production of Hypnosis—Hypnotizing by Suggestion Alone—Suggested Anesthesia—Memory In- fluenced for the Better—Post-Hypnotic Sug2:estion Rapport—Trance and Ecstacy—Hysteria—Hypnotic ',....' .' Anesthesia . .130-139 —— CONTENTS. IX THE FimDAMENTAL PKINCIPLES OF HYPN'OTISM. By THOMSON JAY HUDSON, Author of "Hudson's Law of Psychic Phenomena," "A Scientific Demonstration of the Future Life," "The Divine Pedigree of Man," Etc. PAGES. Conditions of Safe and Successful Practice of Hypnotism The Interpretation of Hypnotic Phenomena—The Two Minds of Man—Conflicting Theories—Application of Mental Therapeutics—Auto-Suggestion—False Sugges- tions in Matters of Importance ISTot Accepted—The Danger Line in Hypnotism 140-145 HISTORY OF HYPNOTISM. By MAX DESSOIR, M. D., Ph. D., Professor of Philosophy, University of Berlin. The Problem of the Relationship of Sleep to Hypnotism Discussions by Scientific Journals—Original Theories of Bentipegni, Forel, Moll, Schrenk and liotzing—The Two Phases of Hypnotism—Sub-Conscious Psychical Activity—^Double Ego—Trance Speaking 146-148 SOME maotfestatio:ns of double consciohs- iSIESS A:KD their RELATIOI^r TO HYPNOTISM. By CLARK WISSLER, Fellow in Psychology, Columbia University. Impressions in Automatic Writing—Induced Double Per- sonality—An Experiment—The Manner of Receiving Impressions—Commands Given the Flypnotic Personr ality Afterwards Executed at the Appointed Time—by the Normal Personality—^Post-Hypnotic Suggestion "Who May Be Hypnotized—Tests for Susceptibility—The Hypnotic Personality in Possession of the Memory Store ' 149-155 SUGGESTIBILITY. By JOHN W. SLAUGHTER, A. B., B. D., University of Michigan. Theories of Schmidkung, Sidis, Bernheim, Lehmann, Tenet and Others—The Reaction of Consciousness—Conclu- sions in Regard to Suggestibility—A Peculiar Aspect of 156-159 the Hypnotic Condition—Rapport. , — X CONTENTS. DOUBLE a:^d multiple identity. By ALICE HAMLIN HINMAN, A. B., Ph. D., University of Nebraska. PAGES. Temporary Losses of Personal Identity in JSTormal Life— , The Merging of Personality in Onr Own Creations The Artist Seer or Prophet Caught Up Into a State of Activit.y—An Accurate Memory of One's Past Retained in Hypnosis—Subliminal Consciousness—The Human Mind Transcends Time and Space—The Laws of the Psychical World 160-167 EXTRA PERSOisTAL CONTROL IN HYPNOTISM. By POWELL BENTON REYNOLDS, D. D., West Virginia University. Psychosis in Mental Activity—Reflex Action without Psy- chosis—An Explanation of Hypnotic Control—How Hypnotism Is Induced—The Surrender of Attention True Hypnotic Control—Habitual or Semi-Reflex Ac- tion—Relation Between Hypnosis and Willed Action Hypnotic Control of Perceptions—Hypnotic Control of Emotions—Relief of Disease— Hypnosis 168-176 CURATIVE HYPNOTISM. By ARTHUR MAC DONALD, Bureau of Education, Washington,