 | Richard James Morrison - 768 pages
...occasions. He says that the man became so susceptible, that, by making him the object of his attention, he could entrance him in whatever occupation he was engaged,...and at any distance within the hospital enclosure. And he particularly mentions the fact of distance, lest the suggestionists should contend that this... | |
 | James Esdaile - Hypnotism - 1852 - 316 pages
...became unable to support himself, and fell into the trance again, in which he remained for two hours. This man became so susceptible, that by making him...and at any distance within the hospital enclosure.* * It Trill no doubt be said by those who attempt to account for all the mesmeric phenomena through... | |
 | Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) - Parapsychology - 1885 - 554 pages
...consider. Our first instance shall be from Esdaile (Natural and Mesmeric Clairvoyance, pp. 227-8.) I had been looking for a blind man upon whom to test...influence the blind man was made by gazing at him silently over a wall, while he was engaged in the act of eating his solitary dinner, at a distance... | |
 | Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain) - Parapsychology - 1885 - 564 pages
...Clairvogance, pp. 227-8.) I had been looking for a blind man upon whom to test the imagination theory, aml one at last presented himself. I placed him on a stool...influence the blind man was made by gazing at him silently over a wall, while he was engaged in the act of eating his solitary dinner, at a distance... | |
 | Medicine - 1894 - 646 pages
...hypnotism, as well as adepts in the art of hypnotizing. Esdaile says (Psychical Society Reparts for 1885) : "I had been looking for a blind man upon whom to test...influence the blind man was made by gazing at him silently over a wall, while he was eating his solitary dinner, at a distance of twenty yards. He gradually... | |
 | Edmund Gurney, Frederic William Henry Myers, Frank Podmore - Hallucinations and illusions - 1918 - 588 pages
...looking for a blind man on whom to test the imagination theory, and one at last presented himself. This man became so susceptible that, by making him...influence the blind man was made by gazing at him silently over a wall, while he was engaged 1 Signs of this general mesmeric influence occur occasionally... | |
 | Medicine - 1893 - 644 pages
...at last presented himself. I placed him on a stool without saying a word to him and entranced him iu ten minutes without touching him. This man became...making him the object of my attention I could entrance aim in whatever occupation he was engaged, and at any distance within the hospital enclosure. My first... | |
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I placed him on a stool without saying a word to him, and entranced him in ten minutes without touching him. This man became so susceptible that, by making him the object of my attention, I could entrance him in whatever occupation he was engaged, and... 