Complete Hypnotism
Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
History of hypnotism—Mesmer—Puysegur—Braid—What is hypnotism?—Theories ofhypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis Theory; 3. SuggestionTheory

CHAPTER I
How to Hypnotize—Dr. Cocke’s method-Dr. Flint’s method—The French method atParis—At Nancy—The Hindoo silent method—How to wake a subject from hypnoticsleep—Frauds of public hypnotic entertainments.

CHAPTER II
Amusing experiments—Hypnotizing on the stage—“You can’t pull your handsapart!”—Post-hypnotic suggestion—The newsboy, the hunter, and the young manwith the rag doll—A whip becomes hot iron—Courting a broom stick—Theside-show

CHAPTER III
The stages of hypnotism—Lethargy-Catalepsy—The somnambulisticstage—Fascination

CHAPTER IV
How the subject feels under hypnotization—Dr. Cocke’s experience—Effect ofmusic—Dr. Alfred Warthin’s experiments

CHAPTER V
Self hypnotization—How it may be done—An experience—Accountable for children’scrusade—Oriental prophets self-hypnotized

CHAPTER VI
Simulation—Deception in hypnotism very common—Examples of Neuropathicdeceit—Detecting simulation—Professional subjects—How Dr. Luys of the CharityHospital at Paris was deceived—Impossibility of detecting deception in allcases—Confessions of a professional hypnotic subject

CHAPTER VII
Criminal suggestion—Laboratory crimes—Dr. Cocke’s experiments showing criminalsuggestion is not possible—Dr. William James’ theory—A bad man cannot be madegood, why expect to make a good man bad?

CHAPTER VIII
Dangers in being hypnotized Condemnation of public performances—A commonsenseview—Evidence furnished by Lafontaine; by Dr. Courmelles; by Dr. Hart; by Dr.Cocke—No danger in hypnotism if rightly used by physicians orscientists

CHAPTER IX
Hypnotism in medicine—Anesthesia—Restoring the use of muscles—Hallucination—Badhabits

CHAPTER X
Hypnotism of animals—Snake charming

CHAPTER XI
A scientific explanation of hypnotism—Dr. Hart’s theory

CHAPTER XII
Telepathy and Clairvoyance—Peculiar power in hypnoticstate—Experiments—“Phantasms of the living” explained by telepathy

CHAPTER XIII
The Confessions of a Medium—Spiritualistic phenomena explained on theory oftelepathy—Interesting statement of Mrs. Piper, the famous medium of thePsychical Research Society

INTRODUCTION.

There is no doubt that hypnotism is a very old subject, though the name was notinvented till 1850. In it was wrapp

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