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sort, and fail ridiculously even in attempting to reproduce 

 the expressions corresponding to the commonest emotions. 

 But it is abundantly clear that the hypnotised subject pos- 

 sesses for the time being abnormal powers. No doubt this 

 is due to the circumstance that for the time being ' the whole 

 man is given to each perception.' The stories illustrative of 

 this peculiarity of the hypnotised state are so remarkable 

 that they have been rejected as utterly incredible by many 

 who are not acquainted with the amount of evidence we 

 have upon this point. 



The instances above cited by Dr. Garth Wilkinson, re- 

 markable though they may be, are surpassed altogether in 

 interest by a case which Dr. Carpenter mentions, of a 

 factory girl, whose musical powers had received little culti- 

 vation, and who could scarcely speak her own language 

 correctly, who nevertheless exactly imitated both the words 

 and the music of vocal performances by Jenny Lind. Dr. 

 Carpenter was assured by witnesses in whom he could place 

 implicit reliance, that this girl, in the hypnotised state, fol- 

 lowed the Swedish nightingale's songs in different languages 

 * so instantaneously and correctly, as to both words and 

 music, that it was difficult to distinguish the two voices. In 

 order to test the powers of the somnambulist to the utmost, 

 Mademoiselle Lind extemporised a long and elaborate 

 chromatic exercise, which the girl imitated with no less 

 precision, though in her waking state she durst not even 

 attempt anything of the sort.' 



The exaltation of the senses of hypnotised subjects is 

 an equally wonderful phenomenon. Dr. Carpenter relates 

 many very remarkable instances as occurring within his own 

 experience. He has 'known a youth, in the hypnotised 

 state,' he says, 'to find out, by the sense of smell, the 

 owner of a glove which was placed in his hand, from amongst 

 a party of more than sixty persons, scenting at each of them 

 one after the other until he came to the right individual. 

 In another case, the owner of a ring was unhesitatingly found 

 out from amongst a company of twelve, the ring having been 



