Medical Hypnosis (1901)

by de Laurence, L. W.

• ISBN13: 9780766107465
• ISBN10: 0766107469
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-04-01
• Publisher: Kessinger Pub

Summary

1901. Partial Contents: Science of Hypnotism; Instructions for Testing Subjects; Inducing Hypnotic Sleep; Fascination; Celebrated Table Method; Stage Hypnotism; Lock Method; Nancy Method; Favorite Method for Physicians; Hypnotizing by Rotating Mirror; Post-Hypnotic Suggestion; Anesthesia; Cataleptic or Rigid State; Lethargy or Death Trance; Clairvoyant or Second Sight; Self-Induced; By Telegraph, Telephone or Mail; People Hypnotized against their Will; Instantly Hypnotized;Different Stages; How to Awaken; Treatment by Suggestion; Hypnotism and Medicine; Hypnotism and Crime; Hypnotizing Animals.

Table of Contents

Science of Hypnotism
Introduction
Hypnotism and Mesmerism, Its History
Brief Sketch of the Life of Friedrich Anton Mesmer
Discovery of Animal Magnetism
Mesmer's Passes
Hypnotism a Psychological Condition
Definition of Hypnotism, Mesmerism, and Animal, or Personal, Magnetism
Terms Used	25	(5)
Instructions for Testing Subjects
Who Is Susceptible to Hypnotism
Who Make Good Subjects
Concentration Necessary
Favorite Methods
Hand and Eye Test
Breaking the Influence
Drawing Test
Difficult Subjects
Vain Struggle
Condition of Mind to Entertain and Maintain While Hypnotizing	30	(4)
For Inducing Hypnotic Sleep
Method One
Disturbing Influence
Undue Nervousness
Precautions Necessary
Precautions Indispensable
Constant Suggestions
Suggested Catalepsy
Reversing Passes
Somnambulism
Changed Personality
Variety of Delusions
Picking Beautiful Flowers
Speech to an Imaginary Audience
Imagination and Descriptive Powers of the Hypnotist	34	(5)
Fascination
Method Two
Magnetic Personality Used
The Vacant Stare
Involuntary Hypnosis
Personal Magnetism
Trance-like Stare
Personal Element of the Operator
Individuality Suppressed
Intense Brilliancy
Insane Patients
Intractable Mental Conditions
Obstinate Subjects
Natural Sequence of Events
Inhibitary Influence
Extremely Fatiguing
Imitation
Verbal Suggestion
Favorite Tricks of Mesmerists
Mystery of Their Performance
Hypnotic Memory
Favorite Tricks
Eyes Open During Hypnosis	39	(4)
The Celebrated Table Method
Method Three
Parties and Social Gatherings
Frantic Efforts
Perfect Concentration
Roars of Laughter
Completely Fascinated
Symptoms and Final Induction
Verbal Suggestions
Deliberate and Positive
Eyelids Close Spontaneously
Operator Firm and Confident
Sleep Suggestions
Suggested Catalepsy
Degree of Hypnosis Ascertained
Arm and Leg Cataleptic
Rubber Nose
Red-Hot Chair
Variety of Delusions
Anaesthesia and Cataleptic Tests	43	(4)
Stage Hypnotism
Method Four
Hypnotic Entertainment
Individual Application
Public Exhibition
Imaginary Bees
Red-Hot Stoves
Rocking a Baby
Scolding and Spanking
Chicken Fight
Cake Walk
Mr. Rastus from Kansas
Mr. Rube
The Dead Black Circle
Hat-Pin and Needle Test
The Hindoo Sleep
Cataleptic Test
Closing Scene
Ladies Upon the Stage
Ungentlemanly Actions
Vulgar Talk
Show, Fast and Fierce
Demonstrations Positive
Boisterous
Addressing the Audience
Pretender or Professional Fakir	47	(6)
The Lock Method
Method Five
Mysterious
Never Before Given to the Public
Bolted Doors
Painful Positions
Psychic Forces
Mind Upon Matter	53	(2)
The Famous Nancy Method
Method Six
Monotonous Tones
Final Hypnosis
Fixation of Gaze
Convergent Strabismus
University of Nancy, France
Diverges from the Normal
Suggested Catalepsy and Somnambulism
Operator's Fingers	55	(2)
Favorite Method for Physicians
Method Seven
Details of Treatment
Concentration
Verbal Suggestion
Passes
Fixed Attention
Mesmeric Sleep
Various Methods
Unpleasant Complications
Practitioners of Therapeutic Suggestion
Degree of Success
Disturbing Influences
Physical Assistance
Bright Coin
Favorable Conditions
Enforced Restraint
Artificial Light
Details
First Induction
Experienced Hypnotist
Respiratory Rhythm
Accurate Perceptions
Characteristic Reaction
Gradual Resumption of Hypnosis
Final Hypnosis
Hypnosis Deepened
Deep Breathing
Deep Stages
Absolute Control
Physical and Mental Conditions Corrected
Repellant Suggestion
Suggestion and Fact, Fact and Suggestion
Permanent Impression
Fear and Anxiety
Suggestions Judiciously Given
Beneficial Effect	57	(6)
Hypnotizing by Rotating Mirror
Method Eight
Rotating Mirror as Used in Hospitals
Four Small Mirrors
Hypnotized at Once
Curious Little Instrument
The Famous Charcot Clinic
Revolving Disc
The Dead Black Segments
Eyes Thrown Out of Focus
Silent Motion
Necessary Degree of Concentration
Mind Momentarily Emptied
Highly Susceptible to Suggestion
The Induction of Hypnosis
Concentration and Fixation of Gaze
Firm and Confident Manner
Sleep Suggestion
Psychological Condition
Suggested Catalepsy
Somnambulism	63	(2)
Post-Hypnotic Suggestions
Interesting Phenomena
Designated Place, Time or Date
No Knowledge of Realization
Cigarette Fiends Cured by Post-Hypnotic Suggestions
Drunkards Cured
Strange Hypnotic Power
Altered Personality
Indelibly Impressed
Good Results
Deferred Action of Suggestion
Action Deferred for Hours, Days and Months
Appearance of Hallucination
Addresses by President McKinley
Profound Obeisance
Summer Dress and Ice-Cream on Christmas Day
Deferred Suggestions
No Recollection
Specified Act or Word
Unaccountable Impulse	65	(5)
Anaesthesia, How Produced
Suspended Animation
Complete Anaesthesia
Positive Suggestions
Hat-Pin and Needle Tests
Public Demonstrations
Singing with Sewed Tongues
Minute Inspection Allowed
Antiseptic Solution
Insensible to Pain
Convincing Manner
Fraud or Simulation	70	(3)
Cataleptic or Rigid State
Marvelous Demonstrations
Wonderful Weight Sustained
Stone-Breaking Tests
Handling the Sledge
Intense Concentration
Caution Necessary	73	(2)
Lethargy or Death Trance
Dangers of the Lethargic or Independent State
Induced Somnambulism
Bishop, the Mind Reader
Unmistakable Signs of Life
Profound Trance
Counterfeits Death
Living Interments
Suspended Animation
Lethargic Sleep
Corpse-like Body
Life Departed
Death Trance
Degree of Lethargy
Suicide by Morphine
An Opened Coffin
Clenched Hands
Death's Struggle
Death's Agony
Lethargy or Death Trance, of from Three to Six Months' Duration
Coagulation and Decomposition
Analogous Cases
Death Trance Induced by Auto-Suggestion
Unconscious and Unaffected
Trance of an Hysterical or Hypnotic Origin	75	(4)
Clairvoyant or Second Sight
Seeing at a Distance
Stolen Articles Found
Murders and Thieves
Suspension of Physical Scenes
Lifeless Body
Independent Action of the Mind
Mediating Sense Organs
Clairvoyant Phenomena
Ability of Clairvoyant Subjects
Psychic Organism
No Possibility of Fraud
Severe Tests
Deepest Stages Best
Hindoos of India
Accurate Account of Distant Batties
Occult Phenomena
Intellectual Advancement
Mind Invisible and Immaterial	79	(5)
Hypnosis Self-Induced
Human Possibilities
Material and Immaterial Forces
Occult Phenomena
Natural Laws
Voluntary Hypnosis
Dormant Powers
Auto-Suggestion
Removing Pain
Power of Suggestion Over Disease
Vital Forces
Recorded Results
Apparent Death
Self-Hypnotization
India Fakirs in the Far East
Famous Holy Man
Sealed Coffin
Revived After Six Weeks' Apparent Death
The Skeptical Rajah
Medical Details of Occult Phenomena
Dr. McGregor
Eye-Witness to Disinterment
Organs and Functions of the Body Controlled
Suspended Animation
Killed by Suggestion
Dr. Hack Tuck
Condemned Frenchman
Disease and Kindred States Produced by Auto-Suggestion
Morbid Suggestions
Possibilities and Susceptibilities of the Human Mind
An Unwarrantable Joke
Morbid and Healthful Suggestions	84	(7)
To Hypnotize by Telegraph, Telephone or Mail
Subtle and Mysterious Influence
Irresistible Power
Professional Operators
Sleep Induced by Telephone
Post-Hypnotic Suggestions
Sedate Individuals Made to Dance and Sing Without Their Knowledge
Hypnotized at Designated Hour
Friends Astonished and Horrified	91	(2)
People Hypnotized Against Their Will
Hypnotized at Any Future Time
Shrewd Hypnotist
Post-Hypnotic Suggestion
Overcoming the Subject's Resistance
Simple Test
Dull Stare
Determined Tone
Body Paralyzed
Fierce Gleam of the Operator's Eye
Utter Helplessness
Operator Master	93	(3)
Instantly Hypnotized
Instantaneous Hypnotism for Public Demonstrations
At the Opera-House
Hypnotized by a Finger
Hypnotized in a Crowd
Marvelous Effects	96	(1)
Hindoo Sleep, How Induced
Fakirs and Adepts of India
Monotonous Music
Peculiar Sensations of Hindoo Sleep
Suggestive Position of Operator
Completely Fascinated by Hindooism
Rotary Motion of the Body
Concentration Universal
Amusing Incident of Hindoo Sleep
The Conceited Gentleman
Hindooism Contagious
Complete Humiliation
Cake Walk
Good Drawing Card	97	(5)
Symptoms and Conditions of Hypnosis
Final Induction
Pupils Contracted
Normal Conditions
Deep Hypnosis
Position of the Eyeballs
Subtle Symptoms
Indication of Hypnosis
Symptoms
Compressed Lips
Grim Smile
Alterations of Ordinary Functions
Superficial Observation
Prolonged Inspiration
Acceleration of Pulsation and Respiration
Peculiar Inspiration
Mitral Persystolic
Careful Auscultation
Acute Passivity
Inverted Foot
Drooped Head
Uncomfortable Positions Maintained
The Nervous System	102	(3)
Different Stages of Hypnosis
Important Classifications Necessary
Attempts at Classifications
Unsatisfactory Classifications
Expert Hypnotist
Abnormal Conditions
Variety of Stages
Deepest Stage
Prof. Bernheim
Detailed Classifications	105	(2)
How to Awaken a Subject
Getting a Subject Out of Hypnosis
Practical and Ignorant Operator
Decided Suggestions, Their Effect
Confident Manner
Difficult Subjects, How to Awaken
Composure of Mind
Positive Suggestions, Their Effect
Wide Awake
Sleep Suggestions
Sound Asleep
Suggestions Must Be Obeyed
Must Wake Up
Nervous Operator
Incompetent Operator
Waking a Subject Hypnotized by Another
Specific Instructions
Physicians Helpless
Unfortunate Subject
Psychology, Hypnotism, Mesmerism
Adverse Influence
Awakened Up Instantly
Exciting Delusions
Nervousness and Fright
Calmness, Confidence and Patience Essential
Formidable Results of Imperfect or Partial Awakening
Real Dangers
The Tone of the Sleeping
Subjects used in Public Demonstrations
Favorable Suggestions
Health Suggestions	107	(7)
Treatment by Suggestion
Long Words and Ominous Sentences
Suggestive Therapeutics
Materia Medica
Nervous Diseases
Condition Induced
Various Suggestions
Nervous Headache
Non-Reappearance
Sciatica
Sciatic Nerve
Constipation
Rheumatic Affections
Neurasthenia
Amenorrhea
Dipsomania
Tact of Physician
Loss of Function
Permanence of Cures
Favorable Conditions
Incipient Improvement
Strenuously Combated
Repetition and Re-enforcement
Diseases of Nervous Origin
Relapses
Rheumatism
Customary Precaution
Suggestive Treatment
Habits of Disease
Sudden Cures
Various Ailments
Subsequent Hypnotization
Therapeutic Value of Suggestion
Suggestion in Conjunction with Chloroform
Congestion of Brain
Delirium Tremens
Insomnia
Functional Epilepsy
St. Vitus' Dance
Asthma
Ovarian Pain
Neurotic Disease
Hysteria, Hypochondriasis and Dipsomania
Imaginary Disease
Morbid Concentration
Diseased Mental Forces
Mental Repose
Functional Derangement
Organic Disease
Periodic Sufferings
Writer's Cramp
Hysterical Amarosis
Deafness
Typhoid and Rheumatic Fevers
Pneumonia
Massage
Mental and Moral Elements
Nausea and Sickness Caused by Suggestion
Mental Battle
How to Treat Morphinomania and Alcoholic Patients
Free Will and Hypnotism
Dipsomania
Desperate Cases
Childbirth
American and English Practitioners
Valuable Adjunct to Other Methods
Experience of Physicians
Personal Qualifications
Essential Requirements
Want of Confidence
Imperious Tones
Fatal Antagonism
Education and Medical Training	114	(20)
Hypnotism and Dentistry
Suggested Anaesthesia
Brilliant Results
Hypnotic Suggestion
Verbal Suggestion
Mental Stimulant
Over-Sensitive Patients
Confidence in the Operator
Dental Surgery
Importance and Possibilities of Verbal Suggestion in Dentistry
Daily Practice
Special Cases
Anaesthesia Often Produced by Suggestion
Deep Degree of Hypnosis
Wonderful Possibilities of Suggestion
Indisputable Psychological Facts
Ignorance of Suggestion Causes Bad Results
Knowledge of Medical Psychology
Hysterical Patients That Baffle and Mystify the Dentist
The Anatomy and Mentality of Man
Effect or Influence of Mind or Mental Forces
Mental Impressions
Physical Senses
Personal Magnetism
Science and Art of Influencing People
Treatment and Construction of Teeth
Mental Impressions Transmitted
Favorably Impressed
Suggestion in Conjunction with Anaesthetics
Great Advantage
Verbal and Mental Suggestions
Nature and Possibilities of Suggestions	134	(7)
Hypnotism, Mental Science and Medicine
Practitioners Prosecuted
Degree of Vitality
Inconsistency of Medical Science
Reaction of the Extreme Application of Materialistic Theories
The Human Heart, Its Fundamental Desires
Cause and Cure of Disease
Mental Science
Fundamental Truth
Organs, Functions and Sensations of the Physical Body
Functional Disease
Perverted and Morbid Mental Conditions
Therapeutic Suggestion
Mental Conditions
Fatal Disease
Grieved to Death
Demoralizing Mental Conditions
Turbulent Tides and Currents of the Human Heart
Truthfulness Inconsistent
Mind's Construction
Science of Physiology
Science of Psychology
Every-Day Common Sense
Vital Responsibilities of Professional Life
Prejudiced and Impartial Observations
The True Physician
Common Cause
United Effort
Misguided Humanity
Dissension, Rivalry, Jealousy and Hostility
Public Good
Interests of the Sick
Human Testimony
Prejudiced Mind
God's Heaven and Earth
Life and Death
Materialistic Propensities
Drugged and Operated to Death
Mental Tortures
Re-animation
True Scientists
Physical Facts and Agents
Real Scientist and Healer
Prejudiced Specimens of Humanity
Physical Repair
Ravages of Disease
Unity of God's Creation
Mental and Physical Forces
Mental and Physical Science
Diminution of Disease	141	(8)
Expectancy and Attention
Drugs, Their Physical Effect
Anticipation and Expectation
Bread Pills
Bowels Operated by an Astringent
Expectancy Produces Extraordinary Physiological Conditions
Tumors Removed Without Chloroform
Mental Impressions and Psychological Conditions
Anaesthesia Produced by an Inhaling Bag
Completely Unconscious
Recollection and Expectation
Unconsciousness Produced Without an Anaesthetic
Power of Mental Forces in Conjunction with the Will
Sea-Sickness
Functional Disturbances, Result of Morbid Concentration
Idleness Conducive to Disease
Hypochondriasis
Disordered Sensations
Structural Disease
Morbidly Conscious
Morbid Attention
Functions Performed Automatically and Unconsciously
Therapeutic Suggestion a Mental Stimulant
Dangers of Perverted or Morbid Mental Conditions
Imagination Develops Symptoms of Disease
Epidemics
Epidemics of Typhoid, Yellow Fever and Smallpox
Laymen and Medical Students
Heart Complaint
Removal of a Cancer
Cancer Caused by Fear and Expectancy
Positive Mental Conditions
Hereditary Disease, Its Logical Solution
Inherited Disease
Shadowed by a Mental Delusion
Nonsensical Ideas
Mental Perversion
Diseased Conditions Aggravated and Prolonged
Immune Against Disease
Electrical Belts and Apparatuses Absolutely Inert
Cholera-Belts, Camphor-Bags and So-Called Preventives Inert
Fear and Expectancy Depressant and Harbinger of Disease
Immunity of Physicians and Professional Nurses
Mentality of Man
Perception and Possession
Principle of Being	149	(8)
Execution and Importance of Suggestion
Enunciated Principles
Executions of Suggestions
Post-Hypnotic Suggestions
Chief Characteristics
Actors Impersonated
Elocution
Inhibition of Self-Consciousness
Reasoning Faculties
Power of Deduction
Volitional Energy
Subject Unconscious of the Eternal
Power of Deduction Inhibited
Particular Phenomenon Possible
Altered Personality
The Insane
Changed Character
Stage Operator
Stalwart Countryman
Nurse Girl
Forgotten Childhood
Battle-Field
Desperate Engagement
Cannon and Musket	157	(3)
Things Hypnotic and Otherwise
Patience and Perseverance
Pleasant and Agreeable Sensation
Sleep Artificially Produced
Imitative Faculties
Possible Imputation of Wrong-Doing
Hypnotism and Supernatural Power
Supernatural Possibilities
Amateur Hypnotist
Reckless Showman
Ignorant and Irresponsible Operators
Injurious and Absurd Suggestions
Precautions
Formal Consent
Possible Imputation
Abuse of Power
Hypnotized by Stranger
Volition and Amnesia
Medical Hypnotism
Gentle Lethargy
Receptivity
Hypnotic Suggestion as an Educational Influence
Moral Breakdown
Degenerated and Deteriorated Children
Reformatories
Neuropathic Children
Drunken Parents
Insufficiency of Knowledge
Free-Will
Moral Training
Exhortations
Reformative Means
Ordinary Means Ineffectual
Deficient Mental Forces
Idiocy
Gray Matter
Asylums and Reformatories
Unmanageable Children
Models of Industry
Parental Influence
Mental Attitude
Unsusceptibility to Hypnotism
Eyes, Index of the Mind
Imbeciles and Idiots
Inhibition of Physical Senses
Increased Susceptibility
Retentive Power of the Memory
The Memory of Students Improved
Induction of Sleep
Concomitant Conditions
Monotony
Perfect Silence
Monotonous Repetition
Unskilled Lecturer
Transition
Gradation
Degree of Consciousness
Receptivity for Mental Impressions
Telegraph Operator
Previous Vigils
Public Speakers
Evidence of Perception
Constant Inner Action
Ruling Passion
Brilliant Intellect
Fascinated by Music or Drama
Conclusive Verification
External Consciousness
Movements Inhibited
Absolutely Dumb
Sneeze and Cry
Eyes Not Closed During Hypnosis
Simulation and Imposture
Public Demonstration
Deception
More or Less Influenced
Medical Procedure
Therapeutic Test
Somnambulism
Receptivity
Medical Practitioners
Therapeutic Tests
Suggested Catalepsy
Rotary Motions
Fourth Degree
Mysticism and Exaggeration
Negative Hallucinations
Tests of Somnambulism
Delusions
Physicians Interviewed
Convinced of Therapeutic Value of Suggestion
The Black Arts
Intractable Diseases
The Supernatural
Misleading Conclusions	160	(17)
Precedent and Individualism
Original Thoughts
Conventional Lines
Merging of Individuality
Individualism
Advancement of Human Knowledge
Individual Rights
Utter Absence of Conventionality
Worn and Beaten Paths
Lessons in the School of Life
Individualism a Divine Right
Conscientious Leadings
Brands of Popularity
Hypocritical and Condescending
Genuine Friends
Right of Individualism
Respected Individualism
Hypocritical Conventionality
Consistent Individuality
Strait-Jacket of Conventionality	177	(2)
Hypnotic Influence or Personal Magnetism
Strange Influence
Magnetic Personality
Hypnotic Power
Charm of Manner
Winning Affections
Social Inter-course
Mysterious Influence
Hypnotic Influence
Mesmeric Influence
Mesmeric Power
Animal Magnetism
Latent Forces
Mysterious Law of Influence
Irresistible Influence
Unconsciously Influenced
Subtle Influence
Arrogant Presumption
Immaterial Forces
Electricity
Human Mind
Will Power
Invisible Influence
People Influenced on the Street, in a Street-Car, Etc.
Mental Science
Mysteries of Life
Passion and Sex
Ministers and Public Speakers
Individual Traits, Characteristics and Capabilities
Physical Capabilities
Mental Capabilities
Physical Culture
Mental Culture
Capabilities, Physically and Mentally Increased
Mental Suggestions
Legitimate Exceptions
Ability Essential
Psychic or Mental Forces
Physical Science Versus Mental Science
Physical and Mental Qualifications
Self-Defense
Mental Conditions
Immune Against Disease
Influencing People
Human Mind Controlled
Psychological Facts
Mind and Memory
Concentration of Mind
Influencing a Person
Use of the Eyes, Hands and Gesture
Convincing Influence
Mind and Will
Master of the Event
Vacillating Mind or Nature
Agreeable Personality
Power of Fascination	179	(11)
Hypnotism and Crime
Post-Mortem
The Unscrupulous
Qualifications of Hypnotist
Risks from Hypnotism Infinitesimal
Fraught with Danger
Criminally Disposed
Dynamite
Nitro-Glycerin
Lawless and Desperate
Tabooed
Contemporary Records
Introduction of Chloroform
Man's Temerity
Abuse of Hypnotism Not a Bar to Its Use in Medical Treatment
Nervous and Ignorant People
Crimes and Outrages
Suicides and Murders
Arsenic, Strychnine and Corrosive Sublimate
Illegitimate Employment
Comments from the Daily Press
Drawn by Hypnotic Influence
Presence of Witness
Consulting Room
Branch of Medical Treatment
Restrictions and Precautions Necessary	190	(7)
Hypnotism and Insanity
Attracting the Insane
Border-Land of Insanity
Morphine, Opium, Cigarettes and Narcotics
Enslaving Habits
Mental Habits
Mental Faculties, Wrecked and Ruined	197	(3)
Hypnotizing Animals
Diverse Organizations
India Fakirs and Aissouans
Venomous Snakes Handled
Continuous Stimulation
Strange Eggs Hatched
Professional Horse Trainers
Timid Mind
Fearless Mind
Animals Simulate Death	200	(3)
Mind and Body, or the Science of Being
Sorrow and Gloom
Origin and Cause of Disease
Mental Forces
Science and Art of Living
Problem of Disease
Pure Thoughts
Bodily Imperfections
Thoughts Entertained and Maintained
Parental Individuality
Sea of Life
Hereditary Environment
External Impressions
Impure Thoughts
Afflictions and Misery
Cause and Effect
Premature Grave
Unwelcome Guests
Morbid Tendencies
Hosts of Good and Evil
Fate, Ambition and Revenge
Tragic Depths of Earthly Life
Mental Impressions
Narcosis
Disappointment and Gloom
Fear and Expectancy
Saint and Sinner
Humble and Noble
Heart's Innate Desire
Inalienable Right
Rock Upon Which Humanity Splits
History of Time
Multitudes of Broken Hearts
Records of Universal Struggle
Definite Conclusions Acquisition of Health and Happiness
Coveted Treasure
Problems of Life
Extortion and Oppression
Fatal Mistakes
Struggle for Wealth
Dishonesty and Selfishness
Irregular Methods
Blundered and Offended Through Ignorance
Jealousy and Self-ishness
Impossible to Escape Self-Consciousness
Physical or Intellectual Miser
Pleasures and Allurements of Earthly Life
Ostentatious Display
Garb of Authority
Sensual Satiety
Lusts of the Flesh
Drifted To and Fro
Man Master of His Own Mind
Foot of the Ox
Joy and Purity
Despondency and Sensuality
Mirage of Misery
Elements of Doubt
Misguided Humanity
Destructive Elements
The Strong-Minded Invulnerable
Humanity's Wreath of Curses
Self-Condemnation
Envious and Poverty-Stricken
Controlling Events
Destined to Be Poor
Deficiency of Character
Self-Confessed Weakness
Deplorable Curse
Confidence in Self-Respect
Terrible Consequence
Extreme Modesty
Morbid Self-Depreciation
Almighty Creator
Power and Energy
Intentions, Impulses and Emotions Governed by the Will
Power to Create or Destroy
Job, the Patriarch
Perfect Comprehension
Principle of Being	203	(13)
Telepathy, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism
Transmission of Thought
Inherent Power
Physical Senses
Telepathy
Thought Transference
Mind Reading
Psychic Forces
Subconscious Mind
Mental Impressions
Psychic Organism
Independent Action
Sense Perception Psychic Action
Material Forces
Second Sight
Simultaneous Action
Material World
Mind Upon Mind
Intense Concentration
Deep Emotions
Mentally Agitated
Suspension of Physical Senses
Clairaudience
Trance
Psychic Activity
Mental Impressions and Influences
Physical Laws
Chemical Decomposition
Death
Evolution
Soul and Body
Condition of Existence
Cause of Existence
Departed Spirits
Birth to Death
Psychic and Material Forces
Natural Laws
Psychological Conditions
Spiritualistic Phenomena
Manifestations and Communications
Immortality
Departed Souls
God's Universe
Premonition of Death
Agent and Recipient
Thought Vibrations
Thought Influences
Clairvoyants, Mediums and Mind-Readers
Guilty Conscience
Influences Transmitted
Love and Devotion	216	(13)
Magnetic Healing
Miraculous Cures
Boy Phenomenon
Magnetic Force
Personal Magnetism
Valuable and Worthless Opinions
Natural Gift
Miraculous or Superhuman Power
Vital Forces
Physical and Moral Qualifications
Methods and Processes
Fundamental Principles	229	(7)
The Phenomena of Hypnosis
Condition Normal After Hypnosis
Awakened Instantly
Apparent Lethargy
Practical Hypnotist
Dangers of Experiments
Ignorant Operators
Ten Days' Sleep
Various Opinions
Minimum Average
Experimental Results
Princeton or Cornell Students
Hysterical Conditions
Different Nationalities
Recorded Results
Dr. Liebeault
Dr. Van Rentezhen
Dr. Wellenstrand
Simulation Impossible
Muscular Contraction
Rigidity
Motor Impulses Inhibited
Ammonia
Organic Functions Affected	236	(5)
The Psychology of Hypnosis
Spirit and Matter
Mind and Matter
Elements of Hypnotism
Various Phenomena
Two Substances
Proper Route
Principles Proclaimed
Confidence and Application
Natural Laws
Mind Influences Matter
System Essential to Success
Words of Warning
Action and Reaction
Public Good	241	(5)
Chapter Forty
Hypnotism, Its Position in the Scientific World
Hypnotism or Mesmerism Not a Misnomer
Mental Healing
Psychic Forces
Health Is Natural, Disease is Unnatural
Treating the Symptom and Disregarding the Cause
Hypnosis a Prerequisite in Establishing Disease
The Body Not a Temple of Disease
Hypnosis Past Its Experimental Stage
No Danger from Hypnotism
Not a Supernatural Gift
How It Feels to Be Hypnotized
A Sleep of Death	246