530 Richard J. Anderson, 



it will be remembered, could produce deep hypnosis by a look, or a 

 touch, owing-, in part, sometimes to association, 



A nervous aberration once having- lisen may grow in strength as 

 it spreads, because of ochlotic (crowd) influences. Everyone knows 

 that a mob may become an agent of destruction. "Tee veel folk" 

 Peter the G-reat used to say, when people came crowding to see the 

 Imperial ship -carpenter. Imitation must play an important part in 

 such cases, the impulse to imitate may be strengthened from motives 

 of self preservation, that tell one the disguise of a like emotion may 

 ward off danger or antagonism. Once acquired, auto-suggestion may 

 complete the catastrophe. 



A crowd suggesting power or design may have its influence in- 

 creased by the noise made. Children and animals are often terrified 

 by such. Military crowds with war music and weapons are very 

 suggestive, often stimulating and exciting. 



" One wishes on a saint's day or a Sunday 



A tale of war when there is time for it 



To learn 'How they are busy killing one another'." 



Noisy crowds cause panics amongst horses, dogs, and children. 

 A horse I once had retired to his house, under such circumstances, 

 and "lay low" on two occasions. A lad of five hearing the distant 

 shouting of a crowd crept away from his friends and was found 

 "huddled up" and fast asleep under a parlour side-table. 



Printing presses, when these crowds mean business, cannot turn 

 out sheets quickly enough for the public craving for excitement. 

 "What side are you for" queried the mob-man to the late arrival in 

 the U. S. America, "I am" replied he "for the people who are against 

 the Government". Some people see iii mobs an antidote for depression. 

 Is this treatment a remedy or a cure? 



Touch, pressure and friction have been used to produce definite 

 physiological results viz.: to abolish or mitigate internal pain. The 

 cause of the success of this may be due to diversion of nerve action, 

 a disturbance of the lymph flow which may relieve congestion. All 

 this may take place without hypnosis or psychic disturbance. The 

 evidence seems to be against the view that sensitivity is, generally, 



