The story of the origin and development of hypnotism--or mesmerism, as it was once called--is not only interesting in itself, as history, but also helpful to a clear understanding of its modern phases and applications. What we now call suggestion and hypnotism, and recognize as purely psychological phenomena, were originally believed to be manifestations of a peculiar, universally disseminated fluid, analogous to the ether of the physicists, which could be absorbed by various substances and discharged therefrom.…
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