Identifier: mindbodyhypnotis00halp (find matches)
Title: Mind and body; hypnotism and suggestion applied in therapeutics and education
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Halphide, Alvan Cavala
Subjects: Hypnotism Therapeutics, Suggestive
Publisher: Chicago, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ble forall of the absurd theories put forward by thisman and others since. He made many experi-ments, and succeeded in demonstrating, to hisown satisfaction, at least, the theory of sensetransposition. He exhibited to his colleagues acataleptic woman who saw, heard, felt, tasted andsmelled with the epigastrium and the tips of herfingers. After Pititins death a paper was found,which he had written, in which he reported sevensuch cases. He explained the phenomenon asdue to the accumulation of the animal electricfluid in certain parts of the body. Another name should be mentioned at thispoint, Abbe Favia, who came from the Indiesand gave public exhibitions—for money—of thewonders he could effect by means of mesmerism.The interest we have in him is not in the resultsof the mesmerism, but in the manner in which hemesmerized his subjects. This was new andcurious. He seated his subject in an armchair,closed his eyes and commanded in a loud voice:Go to sleep, repeating the command several
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ANGEL VISIONS. —See Page 75- THE ANTECEDENTS OF HYPNOTISM. 35 times, if necessary. After a slight movement thesubject would often fall into a condition termedby Favia a lucid sleep. His career was cut short by an actor whofeigned sleep, and afterward denounced him asa charlatan and an impostor. However, to Faviathe credit is due of being the first to recognizethat the cause of somnambulism lay in the sub-ject himself. He said that sleep might be in-duced at the will of the subject or when his willwas inactive, or even against his will. His placeis important in the development of suggestion,although he entertained many of the prevailingfallacies concerning the nature of somnambul-ism. In 1813, at the same time that Favia was at-tracting attention to his shows, the naturalist,Deleuze, investigated mesmerism and wrote abook on the subject of animal magnetism. Atthe time the work was highly prized, but it wascrude and unimportant, although honest andsincere. He added nothing to our know

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