I should be overstepping the limits and objects of this work were I to present the reader with long lists. Lists of this kind have already been published on several occasions, and I cannot do better than to refer the reader more especially to Bernheim's and Wetterstrand's classical works, and also to Ringier's careful compilations, and to the Zeitchrift fur Hypnotismus, of which mention has already been made. But I propose to touch upon a few examples in this place:

1. A thoroughly respectable servant girl suffered in the summer of 1888 from profuse menstruation, which increased in spite of medicines, until in the autumn the periods set in every fortnight, and lasted for a whole week. The girl, who had always been pale, became extremely anaemic, and looked as pale as a ghost. She lost her appetite, and slept very badly, mostly only dozing during the night, and experiencing bad dreams. Her master, whom I knew personally, told me of this sad condition, and himself thought that she would have to return to her parents in the country, and that she would probably not recover. I requested him to bring the girl to rue. It was evening, and she had been losing excessively, as usual, for four days. I told her to sit down in an armchair and to look at me. She had scarcely fixed her eyes on my finger when her lids closed. I then suggested catalepsy, anaesthesia, etc., with good result. This encouraged me to suggest an immediate cessation of menstruation. This suggestion was given in connection with touching of the abdomen, and declaring that the blood flowed into the arms and legs from the pelvis, and it succeeded in a few minutes. Finally, I suggested good sleep and a good appetite. 217

I gave orders in her home that the housekeeper was to control her menstruation. The loss did not recur, and the girl slept fairly well during the following night. I hypnotized her again a few times, and ordered the next menstruation to appear four weeks later, to be sparse, and to last for two and a half days only. I obtained a good deep sleep in the course of three or four days, and a reasonable appetite after a week, by means of suggestion, A regular morning evacuation of the bowels on getting up was also achieved (the patient had previously been obstinately constipated). The girl improved visibly day by day from this time. The next menstruation arrived after twenty-seven days (one day too soon) at the hour suggested, was sparse, and only lasted for two days. Since then the girl has menstruated regularly every four weeks; the loss remained moderate in quantity, and did not last for more than three days (in response to my suggestion). Her color returned after a few weeks, and since then she has been able to carry out her duties regularly without interruption, although she is still somewhat weak and anaemic. She has not been hypnotized again, save once, on which occasion she had again become somewhat exhausted and had lost her appetite (April, 1S89). She was still quite well in 1895, but I have not seen her since.

2. An old alcoholic subject, aged seventy years, who had cut his throat twice during attacks of delirium ten years previously, had been taken care of in the Burghoelzli Asylum from 1879 until 1887 as a confirmed drunkard and scoundrel. He seized every opportunity of getting drunk on the sly. He had hallucinations when he was drunk, and became dangerous to himself and others. Apart from thia, he was the worst of the intriguers who opposed my attempts to introduce abstinence among the alcoholics in the asylum; and, although he was otherwise good-natured, he teased the others about the temperance society. During the last few years he suffered considerably from lumbar rheumatism, which had quite crippled him, and which bad hindered him in his work. He could not be allowed the least freedom without at once abusing the freedom by drinking.

I had long since given him up as hopeless, but nevertheless attempted to hypnotize him in 1887. He proved to be very suggestible, and I succeeded in getting him to be remarkably carnest in a few sittings. The intrigues left off as if by magic, and after a time he asked of his own initiative to have the wine which I had allowed him in small quantities, because I regarded him as a hopeless case, struck out of his diet.

Soon afterwards the rheumatism disappeared entirely in response to suggestion (up to March, 1889, it had not reappeared). He continued to improve, and became one of the most ardent abstainers in the asylum. I hesitated for a long time before I allowed him to go out, but did this, after all, in the summer of 1888. When he was allowed to go out, he never abused the opportunity, although he always received some pocket-money on these occasions. He kept his vow of abstinence, attended the meetings of the temperance society in response to suggestion, and when he went into the town he never drank anything else but water or coffee, or things of this kind. He would not have been able to have indulged on a single occasion without being found out, as he was totally incapable of resisting the effects of alcohol. Once he caught a cold, and got a severe recurrence of his rheumatism in consequence. This was completely removed in three hypnotizings (twenty-four hours), and he was able to work more diligently than ever, in spite of his seventy-two years. Besides he was hypnotized only a few times for demonstration purposes in 1890. But he did not require any furlher anti-alcohol suggestions.

Report In January, 1891

The alcoholism and the rheumatism have remained completely cured up to the present. However, he had been affected some time past by senile (gray) cataract of both eyes, and as this was progressing rapidly, an operation was considered necessary. This was undertaken by my colleague, Professor Haab, in 1890. The operation was performed in two stages: (1) Iridectomy and massage of the lens, for the purpose of hastening the ripening, and (2) extraction, carried out only in one eye. On both occasions the patient was hypnotized before the operation, and rendered anaesthetic by means of suggestion. He did not awaken during the time, and smoked his suggested pipe even while the iris was being cut into. At most, he only screwed up the corner of his mouth while the iris on the opposite side was being dealt with. He stated afterwards that he had not felt anything of the operation, and that he had slept right through it. During the after-treatment in the hospital in my absence he had a little pain, but this was eased by suggestion.