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[57] Recherches Physiologiques sur l'Homme (Paris, 1811); Mémoires pour servir à l'Histoire et à l'Establissement du Magnétisme Animal; Du Magnétisme Animal considéré dans ses Rapports avec diverses branches de la Physique Générale; etc.
[58] See Nasse's Zeitschrift für Hypnoitsmus, passim.
[59] This later work of Braid's has been generally overlooked, and his theories were stated again as new discoveries by recent observers who ignored what he had already accomplished. See Dr. Bramwell's paper on "James Braid, his Work and Writings," in Proceedings S.P.R., vol. xii. pp. 127-166. This contains a complete list of Braid's writings, and references to his work by other writers. See also the references to Braid's work and theories in Dr. Bramwell's Hypnotism.
[60] See also the Zoist (Vol. viii. pp. 156, 297-299) for cases of mesmerisation of animals. In his Thérapeutique Suggestive, 1891 (pp. 246-68), Dr. Liébeault gives an account of his experiments with infants [513 B and C].
[61] See Dr. Bramwell's discussion of the subject. (Proceedings S.P.R., vol. xii. p. 213) [513 A].
[62] This view unfortunately dominates Professor M'Kendrick's article on "Hypnotism" in the Encyclopædia Britannica.
[63] See Dr. Bramwell's discussion of the inadequacy of this explanation in his article "What is Hypnotism?" in Proceedings S.P.R., vol. xii. p. 224, also in his book on Hypnotism pp. 337-8.
[64] See Dr. Bramwell's Hypnotism, p. 274.
[65] I am inclined to think that this is always the case. For a long time the lethargic state was supposed at the Salpêtrière to preclude all knowledge of what was going on; and I have heard Charcot speak before a deeply-entranced subject as if there were no danger of her gathering hints as to what he expected her to do. I believe that his patients did subliminally receive such hints, and work them out in their own hypnotic behaviour. On the other hand, I have heard the late Dr. Auguste Voisin, one of the most persistent and successful of hypnotisers, make suggestion after suggestion to a subject apparently almost comatose,—which suggestions, nevertheless, she obeyed as soon as she awoke.