Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory

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Grant Richards, 1903 - 478 halaman
 

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Halaman 255 - The non-assimilation of the imperative idea sometimes, then, constitutes the morbid element, and this apparently depends more upon the individual than upon the idea itself. The patient who made herself miserable about the Creation might, under other times and circumstances, have taken pleasure in discussing " the number of angels who could stand on the point of a needle ; or whether, in passing from point to point, they had to traverse the intermediate space.
Halaman 371 - Two different lines of hieroglyphics have to be read at once, and the right hand is to be guided to attend to one of them, the left to another. All the ten fingers have their work assigned as quickly as they can move. The mind (or something which does duty as mind) interprets scores of A sharps and B flats and C naturals...
Halaman 159 - I bent his head forward, and it ran from his mouth as if from a leaden spout. The man never moved, nor showed any signs of life, except an occasional indistinct moan ; but when I threw back his head, and passed my fingers into his throat to detach the mass in that direction, the stream of blood was directed into his wind-pipe, and some instinctive effort became necessary for existence ; he therefore coughed, and leaned forward, to get rid of the blood ; and I supposed that he then awoke.
Halaman 120 - Notwithstanding this, she asserted that she had been the best in her class at mental arithmetic. She possessed no particular aptitude for appreciating the passage of time. The following experiments were made after her recovery, and with the consent of her parents : — Exp. 1. — Nov. 5, 1895 ; time 4 PM Suggestion giving during hypnosis : At the expiration of 5 h. and 20 m. Miss D. was to make a cross on a piece of paper, and write down the time she believed it to be without looking at clock or...
Halaman 165 - Go to sleep by order of Dr. Bramwell, and obey Mr. Turner's commands. J. MILNE BRAMWELL. " This experiment answered perfectly. Sleep was induced at once by reading the note, and was so profound that at the end of a lengthy operation, in which sixteen stumps were removed, she awoke smiling, and insisted that she had felt no pain ; and, what was remarkable, there was no pain in her mouth. She was found after some time, when unobserved, reading the Graphic in the waiting-room as if nothing had happened.
Halaman 393 - It must be admitted, therefore, that in certain persons, at least, the total possible consciousness may be split into parts which coexist but mutually ignore each other, and share the objects of knowledge between them.
Halaman 287 - It was in 1796 that his discovery was promulgated in the shape of the Metallic Tractors, two pieces of metal, one apparently iron and the other brass, about three inches long, blunt at one end and pointed at the other.
Halaman 372 - So with every new idea that is planted in a real thinker's mind, it will be growing when he is least conscious of it. An idea in the brain is not a legend carved on a marble slab: it is an impression made on a living tissue, which is the seat of active nutritive properties.
Halaman 36 - Among the physical phenomena are vascular changes (such as flushings of the face and altered pulse rate), deepening of the respirations, increased frequency of deglutition, slight muscular tremors, inability to control suggested movements, altered muscular sense, anaesthesia, modified power of muscular contraction, catalepsy and rigidity, often intense. It must, however, be understood that all these mental and physical phenomena are rarely present in any one case. The Committee takes this opportunity...
Halaman 140 - P., one of his subjects, a planchette and made him write his name with it. P. was then hypnotised, told that it had been as dark as night in London on the previous day, and that he would record this fact in writing. On awaking he remembered nothing. His hand was then placed on the planchette — a large screen being held in front of his face, so that it was impossible for him to see the paper or the instrument — and in less than a minute he wrote : " It was a dark day in London yesterday.

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