No attempts will be made in the following reports to localize definitely the part of the brain affected.

I have treated with hypnotism eight cases of hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body), resulting from cerebral hemorrhage. All except one of them were treated by hypnotism only after the paralysis bad existed for a period varying from three months to eight or ten years. Three of my cases suffered from aphasia (inability to speak). Let me report one in detail.

Mr. F., fifty-nine years of age, was seen by me in March, 1893. The whole of the left side of the body was paralyzed. He had undergone what is termed a shock of apoplexy, the preceding December. Contracture of the left leg and left arm was pronounced. His face presented the usual drawn appearance. He was given a watch and I asked him what it was.

He called it a broomstick. I made a sign as though sweeping the floor with it. He immediately shook his head and said "No" Then the names of a number of articles were written on a card, "knife," "watch," "hat," "plate,"etc. He selected the word "watch," pointed to it on the card, and then pointed to the watch in my hand. As each of the articles mentioned on the card were handed to him, he persisted in calling them by other names, and pointed to their correct names upon the card. He was hypnotized easily, and while in this state I told him that he would call things by their correct names, and that he could pronounce his words clearly. On being aroused he did very much better, but did not call everything correctly. He was hypnotized eight times. The aphasia practically disappeared, although his speech was scanning when he talked. He spoke after the manner of a school-boy in his early attempts to read poetry.

Aphasia very frequently passes off in a very short time after an injury to the brain, either from disease, or as the result of traumatism, but as the patient was much relieved after the first hypnotic treatment it seems that he was much benefited by hypnotism.

The post-hemiplegic contractures, both in this case and in a number of others, gradually improved while they were being treated by hypnotism. In fairness let me say that I have seen equally good results from Swedish gymnastics and massage.

The power of concentration and memory, which is usually impaired by hemiplegia of cerebral origin, were all benefited under hypnotic suggestion. In these cases improvement was so rapid that it would be unreasonable to attribute it to any other agency. In those which gradually obtain a partial use of their limbs, hypnotism seemed to hasten and amplify the result.

A patient suffering from a tumor upon the brain consulted me in the summer of 1893. He was forty-five years of age, and a sailor by profession. Owing to the location of the tumor there were clonic convulsions of the right forefinger and the right hand and arm, there was diffuse severe pain over the left side of his head. He was suffering from what is termed "hemianopsia. "The temporal half of vision in each eye was totally destroyed. He was ill-tempered and exceedingly irritable. Suffered greatly from insomnia, sleeping only two or three hours in the twenty-four. Naturally superstitious, that condition was intensified by the disease. He believed that it was sent upon him as a punishment for his many misdeeds. As they were mainly deeds of dissipation, probably this was indirectly true. The man was treated with the usual remedies, iodide of potash, and mercury, but he did not improve.

The process was specific, and gradually developed. Comatose attacks, together with general convulsions, came on. The pain grew steadily worse between the comatose attacks. After all other remedies had failed, hypnotism was tried as a last resort. The effect was startling in the extreme. At the first sitting he passed into the state of deep hypnosis in thirty seconds. He slept quietly for six hours after he was hypnotized, the hypnotic condition passing into natural sleep. The man lived for three months, and the last half of the period was insane because of the increase in the size of the brain-tumor. Up to the time that he lost his mind completely, he was kept free from pain by hypnotism, it being used three or four times a day.

A case of so-called irritable or traumatic spine, will next be mentioned. This man was injured in the celebrated Revere Railway accident. I do not know to what extent. His nervous equilibrium was badly disturbed. He suffered from insomnia. His spine was very tender to the touch. He walked with difficulty, his gait being somewhat ataxic. He complained of various morbid sensations throughout the body. His hands were icy cold even on the hottest day. There were zones both on the body and extremities which were insensible to pain, temperature and touch.

The deep tendon and superficial reflexes were all exaggerated. The power of prolonged concentration was lost. Business cares caused him so much headache and mental confusion that he was obliged to abandon his work. I was consulted and my opinion asked as to the advisability of his having massage, which had already been tried upon him by another operator.

Having read of the success of hypnotism in such cases, I suggested to him that he let me try it. He was hypnotized in ten minutes. Suggestions were made to him while in that condition that his spine would no longer be sore. He was told that he could walk well. At the same time I told him that I would give him a piece of metal that was magnetized, and that every time he felt the symptom of disease during the day, he would receive a strong electric shock from the metal.

I took an aluminium pocket-piece from my pocket, which was sent to me as an advertisement for some firm, and punching some holes through it with my knife, bound it on the side of his shirt next his skin. I suggested that when he was awakened from the hypnotic state, he would go immediately downstairs and get me a glass of water, and would not use his crutches. He had not taken a step without them for five years. I then commanded him to wake up. He did so. Began to move around restlessly, complained of the heat and said, ""Would you like a glass of water?" Receiving an affirmative answer he arose, went downstairs without the crutches, to the amazement of his family, walking perfectly well. He brought the water up, complained of headache and drowsiness, and I again hypnotized him, and told him that these symptoms would pass off and that he would feel jolly. Again he was awakened and his whole manner changed. He was lively and walked around the room with ease. He slept five hours that night, and in one week resumed his business and has been perfectly well ever since.

Had not similar cases, perhaps even more difficult ones, been reported by other hypnotists, I should hardly expect credence for this one. Call it imagination if you will. Say that faith did the work, I care not to what it is due. A man who had been a burden to himself and family since the accident was restored to the condition of health. Let me say that electricity, massage, and the Weir-Mitchell rest cure, and other means, including Christian Science, had all been tried in vain.

A number of cases of so-called nervous cough, have yielded, under my observation, to hypnotism. Many forms of functional dyspepsia have also been cured by me in this way. The pain in chronic articular rheumatism has in some cases under my care been benefited by hypnotism. In other cases this agent has failed. In some of these massage and electricity afterwards succeeded.

Dysinenorrhcea (painful menstruation) will, when of nervous origin, yield more readily to this than to any other mode of treatment known to me. The lightning pain of locomotor ataxia, says Dr. Bernheim, will often yield readily to it.

A case under my care suffered excruciatingly. In this case all of the typical symptoms were present, namely anaesthesia, abolition of tendon reflexes, the Argyle Robertson pupil, and rectal and vesical incontinence. The anthrop-athies frequently seen in this terrible disease also added their misery to the patient's burdens. Hypnotism relieved the pains at the second trial. The other symptoms were not improved. Hypnotism has failed in my hands in two cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. I have tried it in eight cases of myelitis. It did no good. Neither did it benefit two cases of anterior poliomyelitis under my care. One patient, suffering with progressive muscular atrophy, whom I had the opportunity of observing, was hypnotized by a professional friend. I subsequently hypnotized him, neither of us doing him any-good.

Severe vomiting accompanying pregnancy has been relieved in three cases by me, and tried with failure in one case in which drugs subsequently succeeded. Another case of the same trouble in which vomiting was excessive, no food being retained for several days, was cured at the first sitting by a friend who practised upon the patient so-called Christian Science. The result being due no doubt to suggestion as in my cases.

One of the moat effectual evidences of the power of hypnotism ever noted by me occurred in my practice some years since. A man who suffered with severe trigeminal neuralgia, had tried many systems of cure. A physician recommended him to try massage, and suggested that ho call on me to administer it. I did so and gave him about thirty treatments. The massage did him no good. I suggested to his physician that the well-known operation of resection of the trigeminal nerve should be performed for his relief. This was done. As often happens the nerve grew together again in a few months, and the man's sufferings were terrible in the extreme. I stayed with him all one night, and when the pain would set in, so great was his agony that he got up out of bed and seized a chair firmly by the back, and by pressure of his fingers upon the edge, cut them to the bone. I dressed his fingers and held him down afterwards by main force during the paroxysms.

The man was a chronic morphine-eater. At the request of his physician I gave him six hypodermics of morphine during the night, each dose consisting of a half-grain. It made him delirious but did not relieve him. It did not occur to me to hypnotize him. He read of a professional hypnotist in this city who was not a physician. He consulted him and was hypnotized at the first sitting. The night following he had no pain. It returned after the following night, and I was summoned, and at his request hypnotized him. He slept peacefully for seven hours. The neuralgia recurred in ten days (he had been playing a wind instrument, as he was a musician by profession). Again he was hypnotized and the affection has not up to the present time, a period of four years, recurred.

I have succeeded by hypnotism since, in relieving many cases of neuralgia, but none of them were so severe as the case reported. Similar observations are recorded by all of the prominent European writers upon hypnotism, and it is indeed singularly sad that such records are not heeded by every practitioner of medicine throughout this land. Hypnotism can be learned by all of them in a comparatively short space of time. It is infinitely more safe than the constantly increasing doses of morphine which are so frequently used for this sad afflic-tion.

The severe pain in one case of gout was likewise relieved by hypnotism, so I am told by a reliable acquaintance. 15