General B------, aged seventy-two, came under hypnotic treatment on April 3. He had previously been attended by me for chronic diarrhoea, but without much effect, and the malady was generally considered quite incurable. It dated from the time of the Crimean War, and since then he had never passed less than four motions a day, and these were always thin and watery. Any excitement or emotion aggravated the condition, and the day previous to my visit he had been moved twelve times. He is a man of exceedingly nervous type, but enjoys fairly good general health for his age. Hypnotism produced very much the same effect on him as on the patient in Case 1 - a slight lethargy. In this state his abdomen was gently rubbed, and the suggestion made that he should in future have but two motions a day, and that they should be properly formed. On April 4 the patient reported three motions during the last twenty-four hours. He was again hypnotized, and the same suggestions were repeated. On the morning of April 5 he passed the first formed motion he had had for over twenty years, and from that time his bowels continued to act regularly twice a day, and the stools were well formed and natural.