[81] For a circumstantial English account of the well-known case of Louise Lateau, see Macmillan's Magazine, vol. xxiii. p. 488 et seq.
Three cases of the production of cruciform marks reported by Dr. Biggs, of Lima, appeared in the Journal S.P.R., vol. iii. p. 100.
Another remarkable American case of stigmatisation was reported in the Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky., December 7th, 1891, on the authority of Dr. M. F. Coomes and several other physicians.
See also the case of Ilma S. recorded in Dr. R. von Krafft-Ebing's Experimental Study in Hypnotism.
Dr. P. Janet describes somewhat similar experiments in L'Automatisme Psychologique (see p. 166 et seq.).
Again, somewhat similar is a case recorded by Dr. J. Rybalkin in the Revue de l'Hypnotisme, June 1890 (p. 361), in which a post-hypnotic suggestion to the subject to burn his arm at a stove—really unlighted—produced blisters as of a burn.
Hæmorrhage and bleeding stigmata were several times produced in the famous subject, Louis Vivé, by verbal suggestion alone. (Drs. Bourru and Burot, Comptes Rendus de la Société de Biologie, July 12th, 1885; and Dr. Mabille, Progrès Médical, August 29th, 1885.)
Professor Beaunis (Recherches Expérimentales, etc., Paris, 1886, p. 29) produced redness and cutaneous congestion in his subject, Mlle. A. E., by suggestion, and the experiment was repeated on the same subject by the present writer and Edmund Gurney in September 1885 (see Proceedings S.P.R., vol. iv. p. 167).
It appears that there is at present at the Salpêtrière a stigmatisée, the development of whose stigmata has been watched by Dr. Janet under copper shields with glass windows inserted in them (Revue de l'Hypnotisme, December 1900, p. 190).
Other cases are recorded in the Revue de l'Hypnotisme, June 1890, p. 353; the same February 1892, p. 251 [543 A to H].