Hypnotism or Psycho-Therapeutics
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articles contributed to the Edinburgh Medical Journal. After a review of the various opinions that have been held in England of late years concerning hypnotism, the author proceeds to describe the means used to hypnotise persons, dividing these, as is usually done, into those acting by mental suggestion and those acting by physical stimulation. In doing so, he does not clearly point out that monotonous senso^ stimulation, unaccompanied by any suggestion, produces only ordinary sleep; and that for hypnosis to occur, the person's attention must be fixed on the hypnotiser.^ In describing the phenomena of hypnosis, Dr. Felkin gives, without a word of criticism, a description of Charcot's three stages somnambulism, lethargy, and catalepsy?not even mentioning that these are now almost universally held to be cultivation-products?states, each characterised by a group of physical reflexes the result of education. After a rather prolonged account of the possible dangers of hypnotism, Dr. Felkin gives a very fair account of the
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