THE RELIGION OF NATUEE 



heart a moment before the conscious power of 

 thought returned he would have died as any other 

 animal dies, without knowledge of the anguish of 

 fear through which he had passed. 



We get another glimpse of the line of de- 

 marcation between the body's sensation of pain 

 and the mental consciousness of that sensation, 

 even in the human mind, in the case of persons 

 who have been hypnotized. 



Not long ago a case was reported at consid- 

 erable length in the London papers in which a 

 woman, whose state of health forbade the use of 

 ordinary anaesthetics, was subjected to hypnotism 

 before undergoing a surgical operation. Now, 

 the result of hypnotism is to separate the mind 

 from the body to transfer the conscious per- 

 sonality from its actual circumstances into what- 

 ever environment the hypnotist chooses to sug- 

 gest. In this case the effect was remarkable. 



The hypnotist suggested to the mind of the 

 woman that nothing worthy of attention was 

 about to happen, and throughout the operation 

 she kept up a conversation with him about trivial 

 matters. At the same time her hand, which he 

 was holding, gripped his convulsively at each of 

 the moments when, had she not been hypnotized, 

 she would have been acutely conscious of pain. 



Although the full details of this case, with 



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