. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. and children arepreferred. But as nearly every one in the eastern countries byrepeated attempts becomes hypnotized, then the actual reasonwhy they prefer younger people, almost children, is because theyare the most easily put to sleep, especially during a specialperiod and age. These fakirs claimed that in these young subjects they couldeasily produce real clairvoyance, and phenomena equally asastonishing, and which they say cannot very well be produced inolder people, even though they are in the deepest state of hyp-nosis. We find a la
. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. and children arepreferred. But as nearly every one in the eastern countries byrepeated attempts becomes hypnotized, then the actual reasonwhy they prefer younger people, almost children, is because theyare the most easily put to sleep, especially during a specialperiod and age. These fakirs claimed that in these young subjects they couldeasily produce real clairvoyance, and phenomena equally asastonishing, and which they say cannot very well be produced inolder people, even though they are in the deepest state of hyp-nosis. We find a large number of people who still in their oldage retain the disposition to become hypnotized, but, as a rule,it is the younger age. Girls from 10 to 18 years are best 54 HYPNOTISM. Amongstbut pro- adapted, youths during the ages from 15 to 23 years,those we not alone influence a larger percentage,duce the most interesting conditions. In regard to the different sexes, the opinion for a long timewas that there existed a great difference between the male and. PROF. J. M. CHARCOT. female susceptibility, their more or less development, and largerpercentage of each who were naturally hypnotizable. It was a general belief that many more ladies could behypnotized than gentlemen. Experience proves that men who,as a rule, are considered the stronger, are as easily hypnotizedas women, who are considered the weaker sex, and who usuallyare more nervous than men. HYPNOTISM. 55 HYSTERIA AND HYPNOTISM. Prof. Charcot, who mostly hypnotized ladies—and especiallyhysterics—does not give either reason or the right to believethat it is only females who can be hypnotized. It is an abso-lute untruth, although it has been published in the papers, thatCharcot should have said that only hysterical females can behypnotized. The truth is that in his specialty at La Salpetriere hestudied hypnotism mostly through hysterical subjects. Charcot has by his cures done an immense good, curing peo-ple by the thou
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