J. T------, aged thirty-seven, came to me in 1902 having suffered from spasmodic asthma since childhood. Attacks recurred nearly every night, and his general health was much impaired. He was easily hypnotized, but did not lose consciousness. The asthma habit was at once modified by suggestion, and during a fortnight's stay in London he had no severe attack. The crucial time came, of course, with his return home to old conditions and associations, but there was no relapse, and with the exception of an occasional very mild attack, when he catches cold, he has kept well.

I have treated a good many cases of asthma, and have had a fair proportion of successes. In some of the cases Sir Almroth Wright's vaccine-therapy has been successful, and a patient who had undergone both forms of treatment told me the medicine of the future would be confined to psycho-therapy and vaccine-therapy!

I have known very obstinate cases cured by psychoanalysis. We cannot have too many strings to our therapeutic bow for combating this evasive disease, and I recommend the trial of hypnotic suggestion first.