away on foot, as if nothing had been done to him.

"Five days after the dressing was removed and the cicatrix was found
completely healed."

Hypnotism has been tried extensively for painless dentistry, but with
many cases of failure, which got into the courts and thoroughly
discredited the attempt except in very special cases.

Restoring the Use of Muscles.--There is no doubt that hypnotism may be
extremely useful in curing many disorders that are essentially nervous,
especially such cases as those in which a patient has a fixed idea that
something is the matter with him when he is not really affected. Cases
of that description are often extremely obstinate, and entirely
unaffected by the ordinary therapeutic means. Ordinary doctors abandon
the cases in despair, but some person who understands "mental
suggestion" (for instance, the Christian Science doctors) easily effects
a cure. If the regular physician were a student of hypnotism he would
know how to manage cases like that.

By way of illustration, we quote reports of two cases, one successful
and one unsuccessful. The following is from a report by one of the
physicians of the Charity hospital in Paris:

"Gabrielle C---- became a patient of mine toward the end of 1886. She
entered the Charity hospital to be under treatment for some accident
arising from pulmonary congestion, and while there was suddenly seized
with violent attacks of hystero-epilepsy, which first contracted both
legs, and finally reduced them to complete immobility.

"She had been in this state of absolute immobility for seven months and
I had vainly tried every therapeutic remedy usual in such cases. My
intention was first to restore the general constitution of the subject,
who was greatly weakened by her protracted stay in bed, and then, at the
end of a certain time, to have recourse to hypnotism, and at the
opportune moment suggest to her the idea of walking.

"The patient was hypnotized every morning, and the first degree (that of
lethargy), then the cataleptic, and finally the somnambulistic states
were produced. After a certain period of somnambulism she began to move,
and unconsciously took a few steps across the ward. Soon after it was
suggested--the locomotor powers having recovered their physical
functions--that she should walk when awake. This she was able to do, and
in some weeks the cure was complete. In this case, however, we had the
ingenious idea of changing her personality at