diately, he closes the eyelids, telling him that he is
asleep. After that he raises the patient's arm, and says, 'You cannot
put your arm down.' If he does, Dr. Liebault appears hardly to notice
it. He then turns the patient's arm around, confidently affirming that
the movement cannot be stopped, and saying this he turns his own arms
rapidly around, the patient remaining all the time with his eyes shut;
then the doctor talks on without ceasing in a loud and commanding voice.
The suggestions begin:

"'You are going to be cured; your digestion will be good, your sleep
quiet, your cough will stop, your circulation will become free and
regular; you are going to feel very strong and well, you will be able to
walk about,' etc., etc. He hardly ever varies the speech. Thus he fires
away at every kind of disease at once, leaving it to the client to find
out his own. No doubt he gives some special directions, according to the
disease the patient is suffering from, but general instructions are the
chief thing.

"The same suggestions are repeated a great many times to the same
person, and, strange to say, notwithstanding the inevitable monotony of
the speeches, and the uniformity of both style and voice, the master's
tone is so ardent, so penetrating, so sympathetic, that I have never
once listened to it without a feeling of intense admiration."

The Hindoos produce sleep simply by sitting on the ground and, fixing
their eyes steadily on the subject, swaying the body in a sort of
writhing motion above the hips. By continuing this steadily and in
perfect silence for ten or fifteen minutes before a large audience,
dozens can be put to sleep at one time. In all cases, freedom from noise
or distractive incidents is essential to success in hypnotism, for
concentration must be produced.

Certain French operators maintain that hypnotism may be produced by
pressure on certain hypnogenic points or regions of the body. Among
these are the eye-balls, the crown of the head, the back of the neck and
the upper bones of the spine between the shoulder glades. Some persons
may be hypnotized by gently pressing on the skin at the base of the
finger-nails, and at the root of the nose; also by gently scratching the
neck over the great nerve center.

Hypnotism is also produced by sudden noise, as if by a Chinese gong,
etc.

HOW TO WAKE A SUBJECT FROM HYPNOTIC SLEEP.

This is comparatively easy in moot cases. Most persons will awake
naturally at