Hypnotic Suggestion Daily

It may be interesting to quote the description of one such operation performed by Esdaile's colleague, Dr. Webb, who spoke before the Medical College of Calcutta in these words: "I cannot recall without astonishment the extirpation of a cancerous eye, while the mart looked at me unflinchingly with the other one. In another case, the patient looked dreamily on with half-closed eyes the whole time of the operation, even while I examined the nature of the malignant tumor I had removed, and then, having satisfied myself, concluded the operation."Hypnotic suggestion penetrated considerably slower the field of therapeutic medicine. Yet here its influence was more lasting, it seems. In the course of the last thirty or forty years, ample evidence has been accumulated to show that hypnosis can be successfully used in the treatment of many diseases, especially when they are rooted in neurotic disorders and complexes. The older evidence was carefully collected and discussed in detail in two books of the same title, Hypnotism, by A. Moll and J. M. Bramwell, but much additional material can be found in various scientific journals of recent date. Finally, the latest scientific findings were compiled and briefly discussed by H. F. Dunbar, in her Emotions and Bodily Changes.