. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. THE HYPNOTIZED DENTIST AND PATIENT. quack is he who, professing to cure disease, yet allows hispatients to suffer and perish by ignorantly or presumptuouslydismissing any promising or possible means, of which the fatherof medicine thought very differently from his degenerate sons. HYPNOTISM AS A REMEDY. 45 I will remark concerning Esdailes methods of hypnotizing :Esdaile usually had the patient led into a semi-dark room,where he was then requested to lie down upon his back upon a. THE HYPNOTIZED SUBJECT SUPPOSES SHE IS IN A GARDEN,PICKI
. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. THE HYPNOTIZED DENTIST AND PATIENT. quack is he who, professing to cure disease, yet allows hispatients to suffer and perish by ignorantly or presumptuouslydismissing any promising or possible means, of which the fatherof medicine thought very differently from his degenerate sons. HYPNOTISM AS A REMEDY. 45 I will remark concerning Esdailes methods of hypnotizing :Esdaile usually had the patient led into a semi-dark room,where he was then requested to lie down upon his back upon a. THE HYPNOTIZED SUBJECT SUPPOSES SHE IS IN A GARDEN,PICKING FLOWERS. low couch. At the head of the couch the operator, who wasgenerally a native, placed himself. This colored operator benthimself forward over the patients face, constantly directing his 4^ HYPNOTISM AS A REMEDY. gaze sharply on the subjects eyes, at not too great a distancefrom the patient. At the same time the operator placed a handon each shoulder of the patient. After a lapse of about ten totwenty minutes symptoms of the magnetic sleep generally com-mence to appear. The operator then commands sleep. As a rule this processis very successful. In cases where they do not immediatelysucceed in bringing them under influence, the attempts are re-peated until they do—either by the same operator or anotherwho is substituted. Besides what hypnotizations Dr. Esdaile performed he hadengaged different operators who, singularly enough, were nearlyall colored, whom he had developed. Another method he oftenjuirsued to produce slee
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