ABSTRACT
The following cases were treated before the Bernheim period of suggestion had arrived, by simply hypnotising the patient by passes and the steady gaze. No audible suggestions whatever were made either as regards sleep or the cure of disease. A report of these cases was read before the Neurological Section of the New York Academy of Medicine, October 12th, 1888; and, so far as the writer knows, they constituted the first series of cases treated by hypnotism reported before any medical society in New York or in the United States.
