Complete Hypnotism
Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism
How to Hypnotize:
Being an Exhaustive and Practical System
of Method, Application, and Use
by A. Alpheus
1903
CONTENTS
[INTRODUCTION]
History of hypnotism—Mesmer—Puysegur—Braid—What is hypnotism?—Theories of hypnotism: 1. Animal magnetism; 2. The Neurosis Theory; 3. Suggestion Theory
[CHAPTER I]
How to Hypnotize—Dr. Cocke’s method-Dr. Flint’s method—The French method at Paris—At Nancy—The Hindoo silent method—How to wake a subject from hypnotic sleep—Frauds of public hypnotic entertainments.
[CHAPTER II]
Amusing experiments—Hypnotizing on the stage—“You can’t pull your hands apart!”—Post-hypnotic suggestion—The newsboy, the hunter, and the young man with the rag doll—A whip becomes hot iron—Courting a broom stick—The side-show
[CHAPTER III]
The stages of hypnotism—Lethargy-Catalepsy—The somnambulistic stage—Fascination