Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and TheoryMoring, 1906 - 478 pages |
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Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory / by J. Milne Bramwell J. Milne B. Bramwell No preview available - 2022 |
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afterwards aged amnesia anæsthesia analgesia Animal Magnetism appeared asserted associated attacks attempt attention automatic awaking Beaunis became Bérillon Bernheim Braid Bramwell calculations catalepsy cerebral chloroform cited clairvoyance condition cured deep hypnosis Delbœuf dipsomania disease Elliotson Esdaile evoked example excited experiments explain fact Forel frequently Further Goole hallucinations hypnosis was induced hypnotic phenomena hypnotic treatment hypnotised subject hysteria hysterical idea induce hypnosis induction of hypnosis influence insane insomnia instances James Braid l'hypnotisme later Liébeault melancholia menorrhagia mental mesmerism mesmerists methods Miss Moll monoideism morbid muscles muscular Myers Nancy school nervous neurasthenia normal observed operator ordinary P.M. Sug pain passed patient person phrenology physical post-hypnotic post-hypnotic amnesia post-hypnotic suggestion produced psychical recall referred relapse reported Salpêtrière secondary consciousness self-suggestion sensations sleep somnambulism spontaneously stage successful suffered suggestion hypnotique supraliminal susceptibility symptoms telepathy theory tion told unconscious verbal suggestion volition waking Wetterstrand
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Page 357 - ... pain is a wise provision of nature, and patients ought to suffer pain while their surgeon is operating : they are all the better for it, and recover better.
Page 375 - 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...
Page 161 - 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.
Page 122 - 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 watch.
Page 167 - 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.
Page 399 - 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.
Page 142 - He was then placed with his hand 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 instrument. In less than a minute the writing began. The words were, It was a dark day in London yesterday.
Page 416 - The general mechanism of attention is motory, and in the particular case of voluntary attention it chiefly consists of an action of inhibition. Everyone knows by experience that voluntary attention is always accompanied by a feeling of effort, which bears a direct proportion to the duration of the state and the difficulty of maintaining it.
Page 374 - Wait a minute, and it will come to me," and go on talking. Presently, perhaps some minutes later, the idea we are in search of comes all at once into the mind, delivered like a prepaid bundle, laid at the door of consciousness like a foundling in a basket. How it came there we know not. The mind must have been at work groping and feeling for it in the dark: it cannot have come of itself. Yet, all the while, our consciousness, so far as we are conscious of our consciousness, was busy with other thoughts.
Page 39 - The Committee are of opinion that when used for therapeutic purposes its employment should be confined to qualified medical men, and that under no circumstances should female patients be hypnotised, except in the presence of a relative or a person of their own sex.