ABSTRACT
Many people have a wrong conception of hypnotic treatment. What they have in their minds is what they have gathered of hypnosis from the public performances by showmen hypnotists; performances which aim at making the subjects appear ridiculous, in order to excite merriment among the onlookers; the subjects being mostly men who make a living by hiring themselves out for the purpose. Whatever the practice of hypnotism was in former days, the method adopted by qualified medical men to-day varies little from that described in this book, and must be admitted to have nothing objectionable in it.
