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manner upon the fears and affections, that is to say the emotions, of
their subjects.
Do Nor INDUCE FEAR IN SUBJECTS: BUt it is just as easy to demonstrate
the force of Hypnotism by making use only of tests which are pleasurable to
the subject as by frightening him, and I strongly deprecate any use of this
power for an inferior end.
Active SOMNAMBULISM. This boy is now in the condidition
which is called Active Somnambulism. You have induced in his mind an illusion
; that is to say, you have given hint an object and transformed it by your suggestion
into another object, forming an Illusion of the Senses. You now say to him:
"Let us put the snake away," and taking it out of his hands you lay
it on one side. Then pass your hands rapidly over his face once or twice and
say, "Sleep,." This is all that is necessary to trans-form the condition
of Active Somnambulism into profound sleep.
ILLUSION OF THE SENSE OF TASTE. Let him stand for a moment swaying
lightly upon his feet, and then say: "You are very fond of fruit. You like
apples and oranges. Here is a very fine apple, one of a choice variety,
and you can have it to eat. You will think you never tasted a finer apple or
a sweeter one. Take it and eat it now." You can then put in his hand an
ordinary raw potato, and he will eat it with every evidence of satisfaction.
Hitherto you have not asked him to speak to you, but you can now question him
and he will answer. Ask him how he enjoys the apple, and if he does not at once
reply give him a suggestion forcibly that he can speak just as well as he can when he is wide-awake. He will tell you
then that he enjoys the apple very much and would like another. You have thus
induced the illusion of the sense of taste.
INHIBITING THE SENSE OF SMELL. YOU
can take this same subject and in a little while you can educate him up to such
a point of practice that you can positively inhibit the sense of smell to such
a degree that a bottle of strong ammonia held under his nostrils will produce
absolutely no effect whatever. He may then by suggestion be made to accept the
bottle of ammonia as a bottle of eau de cologne and inhale the fumes with evident
pleasure. There is no end to the variety of experiments which can be conducted
in this matter of illusions of the senses, and it is not necessary here to do
more than to give you the above directions as to how you are to proceed to induce
such illusions. I have never found that any harm occurs to the sub-
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