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waking slie should v^:i see any card whose number was a 

 multij)le of three. This is the ordinary so-called ' post- 

 hypnotic suggestion,' now well known, and for which Lucie 

 was a well-adapted subject. Accordingly, when she was 

 awakened and asked about the papers on her lap, she 

 counted and said she saw those only whose number was 

 not a multiple of 3. To the 12, 18, 9, etc., she was blind. 

 But the hand, when the sub-conscious self was interrogated 

 by the usual method of engrossing the upper self in another 

 conversation, wrote that the only cards in Lucie's lap were 

 those numbered 12, 18, 9, etc., and on being asked to pick 

 up all the cards which were there, picked up these and let 

 the others lie. Similarly when the sight of certain things 

 was suggested to the sub-conscious Lucie, the normal 

 Lucie suddenly became partially or totally blind. " What 

 is the matter? I can't see!" the normal personage sud- 

 denly^ cried out in the midst of her conversation, when 

 M. Janet whispered to the secondary personage to make 

 use of her eyes. The anaesthesias, paralyses, contractions 

 and other irregularities from which hysterics suffer seem 

 then to be due to the fact that their secondary personage 

 has enriched itself by robbing the primary one of a func- 

 tion which the latter ought to have retained The curative 

 indication is evident : get at the secondary personage, by 

 hypnotization or in whatever other way, and make her give 

 up the eye, the skin, the arm, or whatever the affected part 

 may be. The normal self thereujDon regains possession, sees, 

 feels, or is able to move again. In this way M. Jules Janet 

 easily cured the well-known subject of the Salpetriere, Wit., 

 of all sorts of afflictions which, until he discovered the 

 secret of her deeper trance, it had been difficult to subdue. 

 *' Cessez cette mauvaise plaisanterie," he said to the sec- 

 ondary self — and the latter obeyed. The way in which the 

 various personages share the stock of possible sensations 

 between them seems to be amusingly illustrated in this 

 young woman. When awake, her skin is insensible every- 

 where except on a zone about the arm where she habitually 

 wears a gold bracelet. This zone has feeling ; but in the 

 deepest trance, when all the rest of her body feels, this par- 

 ticular zone becomes absolutely anaestlietic. 



