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tions of touch, pain and temperature and all those sensations from 

 the muscles and joints which make one aware of the position of 

 one's limbs, so that, as she herself said, she " lost her legs in bed." 

 Her other sensations were normal. She was subject to frightful 

 hystero-epileptic convulsions which came on every day and lasted 

 about five hours. During them she seemed delirious and talked 

 constantly about men hidden behind curtains, but could not make 

 intelligible what it was that troubled her. Her memory was 

 good on the whole, but she never recalled anything that happened 

 during these attacks, nor could she remember ever having had the 

 sensations which she had lost. 



When hypnotized, she was extremely suggestible, performed 

 posthypnotic suggestions with fatal precision, but never seemed 

 conscious of what she luas doing. For example, she would carry 

 her hands above her head in obedience to such a suggestion and 

 yet stoutly maintain that they were in her lap. The same results 

 could be got without hypnotizing her by simply distracting her 

 attention. Some one would engage her in lively conversation 

 while Prof. Janet whispered a command in her ear ; the command 

 would be obeyed, but Lucie would profess ignorance both of the 

 command and of its execution. After a while the mere tone of 

 command produced the same effect. Lucie would hear all that 

 Prof. Janet said to her before and after the command, but the 

 command itself was unheard by her, although invariably obeyed. 



The significant feature of these experiments is that commands 

 not heard by Lucie were obeyed by her body. In like manner, 

 suggestions given through the sense of touch, which Lucie had 

 wholly lost, were obeyed. If Prof. Janet clinched her fist, it 

 would strike out and her face would assume an angry expression ; 

 if he carried her fingers to her lips, the lips smiled and the fingers 

 threw kisses. Signals of the most complex kind were obeyed in 

 the same way. She was told to perform a posthypnotic sugges- 

 tion when Prof. Janet had clapped his hands twelve times. He 

 then clapped his hands five times gently and at a distance from 

 her while she was talking with some one else ; he asked her what 

 he had been doing and she could not tell him. He clapped his 

 hands again and asked what that was. A handclap, she said. 

 After waiting until her attention was again distracted he clapped 

 them six times more, and the suggestion was obeyed. Lucie 

 could remember having heard only one of the claps, but all twelve 

 were in some way counted. He varied this experiment in many 

 ways, but always with the same result. 



Believing, then, that mental states really existed in Lucie's 

 head, so to speak, of which she knew nothing, Prof. Janet next 

 endeavored to get them more fully expressed than was possible 

 in gestures and obedience. Since all talking was done by Lucie, 



