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Three days afterwards he had an attack of lethargy, lasting from eight to twelve hours. He was very well ap in the nomenclature of his own case, as indeed are most of these people. He told me he was the victim of heredity, that his father had died of apoplexy, his mother was very nervous, and his sister, when 19 years old, had suffered from attacks of hysterical lethargy. He himself had walked in his sleep while a boy, and was ' born a somnambulist.' Since he had been in the wards he had been...
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will throw them into extension, while the touching of any set of flexor muscles will produce violent contraction and extreme flexion of the limb. I hope I have made it sufficiently clear that there are a number of conditions, either spontaneous or artificially produced, in which, while the power of will is abolished, and the brain loses its restraining and controlling power, emotions may be excited, feelings induced, and intellectual operations set in motion, independently of the will of the...
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Similar Conditions Induced in Hypnotics by Suggestion, Auto-suggestion, and Physical Impressions I now illustrate the artificially-induced hypnotic state, and show how our hypnotic patient is subject to the influence of impulses conveyed to her mind either by the voice of the operator or by self-gene-rated influence in the brain, due to such simpje conditions as the position of her muscles and the naffcure of the attitude in which she is placed. She has already been illustrated in the attitude...