ome
extremely thin and anaemic, was listless, easily tired, and suffered
from depression. Early in the proceedings the accounts given by
several patients of the relief they had obtained seemed to appeal to
her imagination. She followed Coue's remarks with keen interest,
answered his questions vivaciously, and laughed very heartily at the
amusing incidents with which the proceedings were interspersed. About
five o'clock on the same afternoon I happened to be sitting with Coue
when this woman asked to see him. Beaming with satisfaction, she was
shown into the room. She reported that on leaving the clinic she had
gone to a restaurant in the town and ordered a table d'hote luncheon.
Conscientiously she had partaken of every course from the hors
d'oeuvres to the cafe noir. The meal had been concluded at 1.30, and
she had so far experienced no trace of discomfort. A few days later
this woman returned to the clinic to report that the dyspepsia had
shown no signs of reappearing; that her health and spirits were
improving, and that she looked upon herself as cured.

On another occasion one of the patients complained of asthma. The
paroxysms destroyed his sleep at night and prevented him from
performing any task which entailed exertion. Walking upstairs was a
slow process attended by considerable distress. The experiment with
the hands was so successfully performed that Coue assured him of
immediate relief.

"Before you go," he said, "you will run up and down those stairs
without suffering any inconvenience."

At the close of the consultation, under the influence of the suggestion
"I can," the patient did this without difficulty. That night the
trouble recurred in a mild form, but he continued to attend the clinic
and to practise the exercises at home, and within a fortnight the
asthma had finally left him.

Among other patients with whom I conversed was a young man suffering
from curvature of the spine. He had been attending the clinic for four
months and practising the method at home. His doctor assured him that
the spine was gradually resuming its normal position. A girl of
twenty-two had suffered from childhood with epileptic fits, recurring
at intervals of a few weeks. Since her first visit to the clinic six
months previously the fits had ceased.

But the soundest testimony to the power of Induced Autosuggestion is
that borne by the patients themselves. Here are a few extracts from
letters received by