while he was giving the second, and
had a corresponding influence over the woman.

Here is still another experiment, related by Doctor Dusart:

Every day, before leaving a certain young patient, I
commanded her to sleep until a specified hour the next day.
Once I came away, forgetting this precaution, and I was
seven hundred yards away before I thought of it. Being
unable to retrace my steps, I said to myself that my wish
might perhaps be felt, notwithstanding the distance, since a
silent suggestion was sometimes obeyed at an interval of one
or two yards. I therefore formulated my command that she
should sleep until eight o'clock the next morning, and then
kept on my way. The next day I called again, at half-past
seven, and found my patient still asleep.

"How happens it that you are still asleep?"

"Why, Monsieur, I am obeying your orders."

"You are mistaken. I went away without giving any such
command!"

"That is so! but five minutes later I distinctly heard you
tell me to sleep until eight o'clock."

As it was not yet eight, and as eight was the hour I usually
indicated, the possibility suggested itself that her
awakening was the result of an illusion, arising from habit,
and perhaps, after all, this was a case of simple
coincidence. In order to make a clean breast of it, and
leave no room for doubt, I ordered the invalid to sleep
until she should receive a command to awake.

During the day, having a few spare moments, I resolved to
complete the experiment. On leaving my house, seven
kilometers away, I mentally gave the order for her to wake
up. I noticed that it was two o'clock. On reaching the house
I found her awake. Her parents, following my advice, had
noted the precise time of her awakening. It was the very
hour at which I gave the command.

This experiment was repeated several times, at different
hours, and always with kindred results.

This is really very interesting; but here is something which appears
more extraordinary.

On the first of January I discontinued my visits, and my
relations to the family ceased. I had not even heard them
spoken of; yet on January 12, as I was making some visits in
an opposite direction, ten kilometers away from my former
patient, I found myself wondering if it was sti