But need we fear the truth? To call things by new names, to allow certain words to embrace wider meanings, does not alter any of the facts of Nature. What is of serious moment is that we should not make the mistake of calling good evil, and evil good. It is almost as certain that some of Freud's theories will be discarded, as that facts yet undreamt of will be discovered along the same line of research. Surely we need have no fear for the morals of the world, but fall back in comfort upon the thought of the poet who sings:

' Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell: That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before, But vaster.'

Dr. Douglas Bryan, of Leicester, Hon. Secretary of the Psycho-Medical Society, has kindly supplied us with an account of his practical experience of psycho-analysis. As he is an enthusiastic hypnotist, his success in certain cases after hypnotism had been conscientiously tried, and had failed to relieve, is most convincing.

Want of space prevents publication in full, and the following brief notes render scant justice to the writer or the subject:

The first is a case of spasmodic torticollis of eighteen months' duration in a woman of thirty-two. After the failure of hypnotic suggestion Dr. Byran had recourse to psycho-analysis, and after weeks of patient research got at and opened up the origin of the trouble, which proved to be sexual in nature, dating from the early years of the patient, and through bringing this to her knowledge, her recovery was brought about.

The second case is also one of spasmodic torticollis of about twelve months' duration in a man of forty. Here, again, hypnotic suggestion failed to remove the symptom, though by its means insomnia, from which he suffered, was cured. Psycho-analysis revealed a very unhappy married life, thwarted desires of every kind, and strongly suppressed sexual feelings towards another woman. These unsatisfied desires were found to be the basis of the torticollis, and the full recognition and explanation of them ultimately brought about a cure.

The third case was one of obstinate pain in the left arm, with hysterical contracture, in a girl of twenty. The girl was deeply hypnotized many times, but the symptom remained uninfluenced. Psycho-analysis showed the origin of the symptom to date from when the patient was three years old. At that time a drunken father stimulated her sexual feelings, and this proved to be the cause of her symptoms, as shown by their being removed when this infantile sexual history was thoroughly investigated and explained.

In each of these three patients the treatment took about three months, seeing the patient several times a week for an hour at a time; so, besides the difficulties of psycho-analytic treatment, it demands unlimited patience. Dr. Bryan is very insistent on minute attention to detail and technique, and scathing in his denunciation of dabblers in psychology who condemn Freud after only superficial inquiry.