The method which I shall give for hypnotizing difficult subjects should be used only by physicians or those who understand the effects of chloroform or ether. I have found it very efficacious and have been able to hypnotize quickly many subjects upon whom I had previously worked for weeks in an effort to put them under its influence by other methods.

You should have the subject lying down on a couch or bed or in a physician's chair. Tell the subject to close his eyes and think determinedly of sleep. Give him suggestions for fifteen minutes as follows: "You are becoming drowsy - everything is getting dark to you - you are so sleepy - your eyelids feel heavy - you are breathing deeply - you are breathing heavily - everything is becoming hazy and misty - you hear no sound but my voice - a numbness creeps over you - nothing will disturb you - you are sound asleep - when I count twenty, you will be sound asleep." Then count slowly from one to twenty.

While giving these suggestions, stand facing the top part of the subject's head and make passes with both hands, commencing with the three fingers of each hand in the center of the forehead, passing over the temples leaving the subject's face at the cheek-hones. Repeat these passes slowly and lightly during the time the suggestions pre being given. You should have a bottle of chloroform and a handkerchief handy so that you can get it quickly. After making the passes and giving the suggestions, sprinkle a little chloroform on the handkerchief and hold it so the subject will inhale the vapor. As he is doing this, say to him, "You can smell chloroform - it is making you sleepy and drowsy - you are becoming sleepy - you are breathing heavier - you cannot resist its effects - it will soon put you asleep - it will have no bad effect upon your system in any way- you will not be sick at your stomach in the least - after you awaken you will feel splendidly.' Repeat these suggestions until the subject becomes unconscious.

Another plan I have often used with good success is to sprinkle a little alcohol or anything else with a pungent odor on a handkerchief and impress upon the subject's mind before attempting to put him to sleep that it is a special preparation composed principally of chloroform. Give him the same suggestions you would were you using chloroform. In giving the suggestions, it should be called chloroform, as it will have a much stronger mental effect. By using the latter method, it will prevent any possible chance of sickness, which often follows the use of chloroform. Keep suggesting, "You will not feel sick after you awaken." This method will have a much stronger effect than if chloroform or ether were really used, without the suggestions. I advise every physician in placing anyone under the influence of an anaesthetic to give suggestions of sleep, telling the patient to be oprated upon that he is getting drowsy; he is so sleepy; he must breathe deeply and concentrate his mind upon sleep; that if he will, no sickness will follow. Less anaesthetic is then required. You should continue giving the sleep suggestions until the patient is thoroughly under the influence of the anaesthetic.

In surgical cases, I have had splendid success where I have followed this plan, and I beg to state for the satisfaction of those who have not yet a practical knowledge of the subject that I have seen no bad consequences whatever, arise from persons being operated on when in the hypnotic sleep. Cases have occurred in which no pain has been felt subsequent to the operation even; the wounds healing in a few days by the first intention; and in the rest, I have seen no indications of any injury done to the constitution. On the contrary, it appears to me to have been saved, and that less constitutional disturbance has followed than under ordinary circumstances.

There has not been a death among the cases operated on. If the sleep is not profound the first time, the surgeon may safely calculate upon its being deeper the next, and it will be prudent to take the security of one or two preliminary hypnotizations. The flexibility of the limbs till moved and their remaining in any position they may be placed in, are characteristic of the hypnotic condition; but there are exceptions and these are equally diagnostic and to be depended upon. It sometimes happens that the limbs become rigid as they lie and on bending them they have always a disposition to return to a state of spasmodic extention. At other times there is complete relaxation of the whole muscular system, and the limbs can be tossed about like the limbs of a person just dead.

Whenever a physician finds it necessary to use an anaesthetic of any kind, if he will give the proper suggestions to produce the effect desired in addition to the anaesthetic, he will get much less reaction or shock than is usually the case. I would advise every practitioner of medicine to make a careful study of suggestion, apply it as directed, and use it in connection with medical and surgical treatment. I have made a careful study of the teaching and system of the celebrated French operator, Char-pentier, who claims that any one can be hypnotized quickly by these methods, and believe that the results obtained in many cases will be marvelous to a great degree.