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man into that shape, and to make him all foreboding ; as again the 

 smallest expansion, in a moment, brings the opposite state, with a 

 full breathing of delight. Raise the head next, and ask, if it be a 

 young lady, whether she or some other is the prettier : and observe 

 the inexpressible hauteur, and the puff sneers let off from the lips, 

 which indicate a conclusion too certain to need utterance ; depress 

 the head, and repeat the question ; and mark the self-abasement 

 with which she now says, " She is," as hardly worthy to make the 

 comparison. In this state, whatever posture of any passion is 

 induced, the passion comes into it at once, and dramatizes the body 

 accordingly. 



Moreover, the patient's mind directed to his own body, does phy- 

 sical marvels. He can do in a manner what he thinks he can. 

 Place a handkerchief on a table, and beg him to try to lift it, ob- 

 serving, however, that you know it to be impossible, and he will 

 groan and sweat over the cambric as though it were the anchor of 

 a man-of-war ) on the other hand, tell him that a fifty-six pound 

 weight is a light cork, to be held out at arm's length on his little 

 finger, and he will hold it out with ease. Tell him that a tumor 

 on his body is about to disappear, and his mind will often realize 

 your prophecy. Of the following case Mr. B. himself informed 

 me. A lady who was leaving off nursing from defect of milk, the 

 baby being thirteen months old, was hypnotized by him. He made 

 passes over her right breast to call her attention to it, and in a few 

 moments her gestures showed that she dreamt the baby was suck- 

 ing. In two minutes, the breast was distended with milk. She 

 was awoke, and on being questioned whether any part of her frame 

 felt differently from the rest, she perceived the state of her bosom, 

 and mentioned it ; to which Mr. B. replied that the baby would 

 soon settle that. The infant was nearly choked with the rush of 

 milk. In three days she came back to Mr. B. and complained that 

 he had disfigured her, for she was protuberant on one side. He 

 promised to take the swelling down ; hypnotized her ; but drew the 

 other side also by the like means ; and she nursed her child from 

 an overflowing bosom for twenty-two months; being nine after 

 the hypnotism. 



A patient in the full state obeys all motives in the most natural 



