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Where organic heart diseases are surely present, it seems that hypnotism can sometimes act beneficially if the heart trouble is accompanied by anæmia and general debility; of course a developed valvular disease cannot be removed. In the same way it seems that in Bright's disease, certain painful symptoms may be suppressed, but the kidneys certainly cannot be influenced.
"You mean that those ancients understood hypnotism?" asked Burke, astonished. "Evidently their priests did; evidently hypnotism was understood and employed in certain mysteries. And there is the symbol of it; and under it the hieroglyphs meaning 'a day and a night, with the symbol as usual present to signify force or strength employed.
Never shall I truly live till it kills me utterly! I can bear it no longer, my heart is breaking!" Bimala slid down from her seat and fell at my feet, which she clasped, and then she sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. This is hypnotism indeed the charm which can subdue the world! No materials, no weapons but just the delusion of irresistible suggestion.
Vodka before meals, and during meals two glasses of wine, so that a perpetual mist concealed the turmoil of existence. "These new theories of hypnotism, of mental maladies, of hysteria are not simple stupidities, but dangerous or evil stupidities.
Certainly real charmers of wild beasts usually end by being bitten or injured in some other way, which would seem to show that the hypnotization does not always work, or else it does not exist at all. We have some fairly well known instances of hypnotism produced in animals.
It is most probable that he was weakened by hypnotism, otherwise he would not have entered into this marriage, or allowed himself to be broken down by disgust at its consequences. An exceedingly manly, robust character, and devoted to his profession, he could not without being hypnotised have deserted his ship.
This simply means that he had cramps, resulting from the effect of hypnotism on the muscles of his legs. The writer believes that the force always acts from the feet, or rather one foot, upwards; obviously a man sitting or standing up must be approached that way, and habit causes the electric stream to flow in that direction.
Some observers claim they are rendered insensible to pain by self-induced hypnotism. An account by Carpenter of the Algerian Aissaoui contained the following lucid description of the performances of these people: "The center of the court was given up to the Aissaoui. These were 12 hollow-checked men, some old and some young, who sat cross-legged in an irregular semicircle on the floor.
The abnormal nature of the conditions induced by experimental hypnotism is in the removal of the normal control held by the individual's own objective mind over his subjective mind and the substitution of some other control for it, and thus we may say that the normal characteristic of the subjective mind is its perpetual action in accordance with some sort of suggestion.
The argument that Féré and Binet are fond of, that hypnotism much resembles what can be seen every day, is no doubt true. Mrs. Anna Kingsford appears to have been often hypnotised by some unknown rascal, but her gentle admirable character seems to have suffered but little, though her life was possibly shortened.
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