Neurypnology Author:James Braid Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Mode of Hypnotizing —Circumstances necessary to be complied with — Peculiar phenomena which follow; excitement first, and afterwards depression of... more » function—Importance of attending to this—How these may be made to alternate with each other — Extraordinary influence of a current of air during Hypnotism—Reasons for certain modifications of original modes of operating — Hypnotism proceeds from a law of the animal economy — Arises from the physical and psychical condition of the patient, and not from any emanation or principle proceeding from others—Example for proof—Exhibits no appreciable electric or magnetic change. — Two patients may hypnotize each other by contact. — Phenomena arise spontaneously in course of disease. — Mr Wakley's admission on this point. — Mr II. Mayo'e testimony as to the effects of Hypnotisnk — Effects of different positions of the eyes. — Remarks on articles in Medical Gazette. — Consensual adjustment of eyes. —Effects on size of pupil. — Power of hahit and imagination.—Docility of patients, and exalted sensibility, and their effects. — Patient hypnotized whilst operating on another. — Mode of resisting influence. I Now proceed to detail the mode which I practise for inducing the phenomena. Take any bright object (I generally use my lancet case) between the thumb and fore and middle fingers of the left hand ; hold it from about eight to fifteen inches from the eyes, at such position above the forehead as may be necessary to produce the greatest possible strain upon the eyes and eyelids, and enable the patient to maintain a steady fixed stare at the object. The patient must be made At an early period of my investigations, I caused the patients to look at a cork bound on the forehead. This was 28 DIRECTIONS FOR HYPNOTIZING. to unders...« less