. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. eal Parisian gentleman. By the aid of suggestions thiswas successfully done, and he soon thought himself an officerand then believed himself speaking for the ladies at a dinner. party. At other moments he imagined that he was strollingalong the gay boulevards of modern Paris. Mr. P. was thengiven the suggestion for a shorter time that he was a Paris bal-let-master, and when he then commenced, at my order, to whirlaround in the most daring ballet attitudes, which all had an ap-pearance of grace and elegance, he seemed evidently so highly
. Hypnotism, its facts, theories, and related phenomena;. eal Parisian gentleman. By the aid of suggestions thiswas successfully done, and he soon thought himself an officerand then believed himself speaking for the ladies at a dinner. party. At other moments he imagined that he was strollingalong the gay boulevards of modern Paris. Mr. P. was thengiven the suggestion for a shorter time that he was a Paris bal-let-master, and when he then commenced, at my order, to whirlaround in the most daring ballet attitudes, which all had an ap-pearance of grace and elegance, he seemed evidently so highlyinterested in his new dignity that it was only at the expense ofmuch time and continued efforts that he was led back to reality once more to be the serious and amiable bookkeeper. INTRODUCTION OF HYPNOTISM IN CHICAGO. 245 A young lady, Miss M., a delicate blonde, with blue eyes anda pale complexion, was then hypnotized, and was the subject ina number of interesting experiments following each otherquickly. It was suggested to her that she saw the heavens. THE SUBJECT DANCES TA-RA-RA-BOM-DE-AYSWEETHEART. WITH HIS open, and kneeling down, with outstretched arms, she beheldwith a reverent gaze, the fancied clouds and listened with ex-treme delight to the angelic music that was suggested. She re-mained in this position for about ten or twelve minutes without 246 INTRODUCTION OF HYPNOTISM IN CHICAGO. the least trembling of her arms to betray any exhaustion what-ever ; on the contrary, she seemed with true delight to enjoyher vision. Different other suggestions were then given her
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