For other cases of moral education, see Bérillon, De la suggestion et de ses applications à la pédagogie (1887); L'Hypnotisme et l'Orthopédie morale (1898); Revue de l'Hypnotisme, December 1887, pp. 169-180, and December 1897, p. 162; Bernheim, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, November 1886, p. 129; Ladame, the same, June and July 1887; Voisin, the same, November 1888; De Jong, the same, September 1891; Bourdon, the same, August 1896; Van Renterghem and Van Eeden, Psycho-thérapie, p. 215. Nervous troubles in adults have often been cured by the same means. Thus, in the Revue de l'Hypnotisme, September 1899, p. 73, Dr. Vlavianos records a case of tic convulsif cured by hypnotic suggestion. Wetterstrand has used the same method with success (loc. cit., p. 76). See also Janet, Névroses et Idées Fixes, vol. ii., part ii., chapter iii., "Les. Tics."
[67] See Bérillon, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, September 1890, p. 75, and February 1896, p. 237; Regis, the same, May 1896; De Jong, the same, September 1891, p. 82; and Auguste Voisin, the same, November 1888, p. 130.
[68] See Otto Wetterstrand, Der Hypnotismus und seine Anwendung in der praktischen Medicin; Georg Ringier, Erfolge des therapeutischen Hypnotismus in der Landpraxis; Van Renterghem and Van Eeden, Psycho-thérapie; Auguste Forel, Einige therapeutische Versuche mit dem Hypnotismus bei Geisteskranken; Lloyd Tuckey, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, January 1897, p. 207; Ladame, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, November 1887, p. 131, and December 1887, p. 165; A. Voisin, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, vol. ii. (1888), p. 69, and vol. iii. (1889), p. 353; Vlavianos, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, June 1899, p. 361; Neilson, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, vol. vi. (1892), p. 17. Bérillon, Le traitement psychologique de L'Alcoolisme. Paris 1906. See also the works of Liébeault, Bernheim, and Milne Bramwell.
[69] There are many instances of the cure of morphinomania. See especially the case recorded by Dr. Marot in the Revue de l'Hypnotisme, February 1893, on account of the psychological interest of the patient's own remarks.
Wetterstrand, out of fourteen cases, records eleven cures of morphinomania. In a paper in the Revue de l'Hypnotisme, November 1890, he discusses the benefit of prolonged hypnosis—causing the patient to sleep for a week or more at a time—which he tried in one case. See also Voisin, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, December 1886, p. 163.
[70] See Dr. A. Dorez, Revue de l'Hypnotisme, May 1899, p. 345; and Dr. Bourdon, the same, November 1893, p. 141 [557 A].
[71] Dr. Hill, British Medical Journal, July 4th, 1891.
[72] In some articles in the Revue Philosophique, published in 1886 and 1887, Delbœuf describes some experiments which suggest that in many of the remarkable hypnotic cures recorded in the Zoist (as well as in modern cases) the removal of pain was probably an important element in the cure; see e.g. cures of inflammation (Zoist, vol. x. p. 347); of neuralgia and chronic rheumatism (vol. ix. pp. 76-79); of abdominal pains (vol. ix. p. 155); of tic douloureux (vol. viii. p. 186); of severe headaches (vol. x. p. 369); of eczema impetiginodes (vol. x. p. 96).
The general subject of hypnotic analgesia is strikingly illustrated by Esdaile's well-known work in the Indian hospitals; see his books, Mesmerism in India (London, 1846); The Introduction of Mesmerism with Sanction of Government into the Public Hospitals of India (2nd edit. London, 1856); Natural and Mesmeric Clairvoyance (London, 1852); and constant references to him in the Zoist.
For later cases see British Medical Journal, April 5th, 1890, p. 801; the same, February 28th, 1891, pp. 460-468.