HYPNOTISM AND ITS PHENOMENA. itt! 
seen illuminating them as it now does the many common maladies 
which we daily encounter. Most truly would we express the fervent 
prayer of Tennyson : 
** Let knowledge grow from more to more,” 
for to no other as much as to the true physician does this desire come 
that thereby the sum of human ills may be lessened, and the sad- 
dened face of a suffering humanity be illumined, let us hope, with 
spontaneous gratitude towards a profession which, with all its imper- 
fections, is yet most earnest in the promotion of man’s highest 
mental as well as physical well-being. 
Many are the points concerning these neurotic puzzles which we 
have left untouched ; but it is hoped that other more experienced 
minds, and pens, wielded by other more facile hands, will take these 
up, adding thereby to the sum total of that medical knowledge, one 
of the many glories of the future for, as our Laureate sings, 
“«¢ And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the sun.” 
