Sahátof (with dignity). Not at all. Pray continue.
Doctor. Pulse 82, and the temperature has risen three-tenths of a degree.
Professor. There you are! That's a proof! That's just as it should be. (Takes out pocket-book and writes.) 82, yes? And 37 and 5. When the hypnotic state is induced, it invariably produces a heightened action of the heart.
Doctor. I can, as a medical man, bear witness that your prognosis was justified by the event.
Professor (to SAHÁTOF). You were saying?...
Sahátof. I wished to say that Liébault told me himself that the hypnotic is only one particular psychical state, increasing susceptibility to suggestion.
Professor. That is so, but still the law of equivalents is the chief thing.
Grossman. Moreover, Liébault is far from being an authority, while Charcot has studied the subject from all sides, and has proved that hypnotism produced by a blow, a trauma....
All talking together—
Sahátof. Yes, but I don't reject Charcot's labor. I know him also, I am only repeating what Liébault told me...