CONTENTS 

I. Animal Magnetism in its Beginnings— Mesmer and Puységur ... 1

II. History Of Animal Magnetism — the Academic Period ...  33

III. History Of Animal Magnetism — Braid: Hypnotism — Grimes, Azam, Durand de GrosS, Demarquay, and Giraud-Teulon, Liébault, Ch. Richet, Charcot, and P. Richer ... 67

IV. The Modes Of Producing Hypnosis ... 88

V. Symptoms of Hypnosis ... 104

VI. The Hypnotic States ... 154

VII. Imperfect Forms Of Hypnosis ... 164

VIII. General Study Of Suggestion ... 171

IX. Hallucinations ... 211

X. Suggestions of Movements And Of Acts ... 277

XI. Paralysis by Suggestion: Anesthesia ... 304

XII. Paralysis by Suggestion: Motor Paralysis ... 323

XIII. The Application of Hypnotism to Therapeutics and Education ... 352

XIV. Hypnotism and Responsibility ... 361