T. L------, aged twenty-one, engineer, was sent to me for treatment by suggestion by a medical friend, as all ordinary treatment, medical and surgical, had failed. Since early adolescence he had practised private vices, which had reduced him to a deplorable state of mental and physical weakness. He was easily hypnotized, and fell into the fourth stage of hypnosis. Suggestions were made directed to the reduction of morbid functional activity, and to increase of power of self-control. The patient, who thought himself on the verge of insanity, was a willing patient, and is now, after five months, a completely altered man. He comes to me at gradually lengthening intervals, and in that way any danger of a relapse is obviated until the influence of the habit is absolutely eradicated.

I was enabled to form a good estimate of the value of hypnotic treatment, as I was asked to try it on two brothers who were both terribly addicted to masturbation. The elder one, aged eighteen, proved unhypno-tizable after repeated efforts, and the younger, aged fourteen, became somnambulic almost at once.

In the former case the patient has gone from bad to worse, and is now in a lunatic asylum with delusions of persecution. The latter is now married, middle-aged, and fills a responsible post in South Africa. He has had no relapse from the first day he was treated.

* His fear is not altogether unfounded, unfortunately. I know of two cases where the craving for alcohol was revived by the taste of wine at the Sacrament. One of them was reported to me by a well-known Congregational minister, Mr. Mearns; the other by a High-Church lady.