568 E. In the Zoist for April 1849 Mr. Adams, a surgeon of Lymington, writing four months after the event, describes how a guest of his own twice succeeded in mesmerising the man-servant of a common friend at a distance of nearly fifty miles, the time when the attempt was to be made having in each case been privately arranged with the man's master. On the first occasion the unwitting "subject" fell at the time named, 7.30 p.m., into a state of profound coma not at all resembling natural sleep, from which he was with difficulty aroused. He said that "before he fell asleep he had lost the use of his legs; he had endeavoured to kick the cat away, and could not do so." On the second occasion a similar fit was induced at 9.30 a.m., when the man was in the act of walking across a meadow to feed the pigs.

For other cases of hypnotisation at a distance, see Professor Richet in the Revue Philosophique, February 1886, p. 199 (quoted in Phantasms of the Living, vol. ii. p. 332), and Dr. Dariex in the Annates des Sciences Psychiques, vol. iii., 1893, pp. 257-67. Dr. Wetterstrand of Stockholm also states in a letter published in Dr. Schmidkunz's Psychologic der Suggestion (Stuttgart, Enke, 1892), and translated in Proceedings, vol. ix. p. 216, that he has a patient whom he can send to sleep and wake up again from his house, and that he has also made her get up in a state of sleep from her own room and come to his.

Another case, involving an experiment not to be recommended, was recorded by Dr. Tolosa-Latour in the Annates des Sciences Psychiques, vol. iii., 1893, pp. 268-73. The subject of the experiment was a Mile. R., whom Dr. Latour had treated hypnotically for hysterical paralysis since September 1886. Prior to his treatment, in 1885, she had had daily hysterical attacks, but both these and the paralysis had almost entirely disappeared at the time of his experiment, October 1890. She was then living at Madrid, and he was travelling in France. During a journey from Poitiers to Migné he attempted for an hour or two to send her to sleep and pour fixer bien la suggestion to produce a violent hysteric attack after the sleep. Some time after his return to Madrid he learnt of the complete success of his experiment. A letter from Mlle. R., written in March 1891, describing her experience, states that she had been perfectly well just before the attack, and had had no attacks of the kind since.