ABSTRACT
ALL the best work on hysteria has been based on the practical motive of desiring to relieve the sufferings and disabilities of those afflicted by this disorder. The work of the French schools, both in Nancy and in Paris, brought out very clearly the extreme suggestibility of hysterical patients, and it was soon discovered that any particular symptom could readily be made to disappear if a suggestion to that effect were given during hypnosis. But it was also found that when one symptom was removed very often another, apparently quite different one, took its place, and that the cure of severe hysteria by suggestion alone was therefore a very difficult matter.
