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HYPNOSIS SELF-INDUCED. 71tion after he had resumed the normal condition,but failed to detect any harmful results.The power and effect of suggestion on theimagination is wonderful, and there is no questionbut that sickness and even death itself isoften caused by suggestion, as is readily seen inan instance given by Dr. Hack Tuck.The victim was a Frenchman, who had beencondemned to death for committing some crime,and his friends, wishing to avoid the disgrace ofa public execution, consented to his being madethe subject of an experiment. It was stated tothe condemned man that it had been decreed thathe must be bled to death. The executor thenbandaged the victim's eyes, and, after his armhad been slightly pricked, a small stream ofwarm water was made to trickle down it anddrop into a basin, the assistants all the whilekeeping up a continuous comment on hissupposedweakening condition."See how pale helooks. He is getting faint, his heart is beatingslower and slower, his pulse isalmost stopped,"with numerous other remarks of this sort. Ina short while the miserable man died with decidedsymptoms of cardiac syncope from a hemorrhage,without having really lost a single dropof blood, a victim of suggestion.That decease and kindred state9 are induced