442 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
the operator’s voice, and that only. It is well known that the expecta- 
tion of sleep is one of the most powerful means of inducing it, espe- 
cially when combined with the withdrawal of the mind from every- 
thing which could keep its attention awake ; both these conditions are 
united in an eminent degree in the state of the biologized subject whose 
mind has been possessed with the conviction that sleep is about to 
supervene, and is closed to every source of distraction. The waking 
in twelve. Males appear equally susceptible of it with females; so 
prompt—be anywhere interrupted, the impression will then exert 1s 
reflex’’ action will be the result. 
wer; for impressions made upon the lower extremities then 
violent reflex actions, to which there would have been no tendenc 
the current of nervous force could have passed upwards to the cere- 
brum. So, if sensations be prevented by the state of the cerebrum 
from calling forth its ideas through its instrumentality, they may re-act 
upon the motor apparatus in a manner which they would never do 10 
its state of complete functional activity. 
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