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81HYPNOTISM.the phenomena is produced. The history ofHypnotism begins almost like a fable. Methodswere in use amongst the Egyptians, the Greeks,and the Romans, which present a striking similarityto the means adopted by modern Hypnotists.In the British museum there is a bas-relieftaken from a tomb in Thebes. The "Subject/'as he would be termed in modern phraseology,is sitting down, and a short distance from hima man is standing with hand uplifted and evidentlyabout to make a pass over the subject.The Goddess Isis, on the zodiac of hertemple, at Denderah, is represented as makingthe same "Passes" the earliest Greek physicianswere in the habit of using, processes having astrong resemblance to those used by every Hypnotist.The firsttraces of any system appeared aboutthe end of the middle ages, and then it wasattempted to demonstrate that the human willwas capable of producing the phenomena.It then remained for Mesmer to shed newlight upon the question, and in1775 he discoveredthat the phenomena could be produced invarious ways, and then it was called Mesmerism,but was afterwards changed to Hypnotism, in1841, by Dr. Braid of England, who produced