Hypnosis in Medicine and Surgery - Softcover

Esdaile, James

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ISBN 10: 123038183X ISBN 13: 9781230381831

Verlag: TheClassics.us, 2013

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...him into a somnambulist afterwards. He accordingly rendered a man senseless, standing erect, in a few minutes, and failing to awake him, requested me to do so, which was instantaneously done. But, as often happens, when the system is deeply affected, he fell back into the trance, and Mr. B. begged to see the imitative stage of somnambulism. I said, he could do this also himself, by concentrating the patient's attention. Mr. B. was sitting on a table a few yards in front of the man, and made all kinds of noises, which he echoed back. Wishing to examine him more.closely, Mr. B. jumped off" the table, and came running forward with his body bent, and singing. The man did exactly the same, but a sudden fit of rigidity passed through him, and he plunged head foremost against the floor, to Mr. B.'s great distress. I had him placed on a comfortable bed to sleep off the effects, and we left him at 1 o'clock, p. M. I was painfully startled to find the man as stiff as a log to-day, at 11 o'clock, and that he had shown no sign of life since we left him. This would not have alarmed me without the accident, but I feared the head might have been injured by his fall, and set about restoring him to his senses by the usual mesmeric processes, but all in vain. I then had recourse to volatile stimulants to the nose (I could not induce any attempt to swallow,) and effusion of cold water on the body, and to water poured from a height into his open eyes; but to no purpose. I returned in an hour, and renewed my efforts; no fluid could be got to pass down his throat, it ran out of his mouth as from a dead man's; while looking on attentively, I saw an instinctive effort made to clear the wind-pipe of mucus that obstructed it, and then an attempt to swallow; I took...

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• Verlag: TheClassics.us
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 123038183X
• ISBN 13: 9781230381831
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 70