brought under hypnotism. Multitudes more have
been found under the innumerable forms and results of hysteria. A study
of the effects of the imagination upon bodily functions has also yielded
remarkable results.

And, finally, to supplement this work, have come in an array of
scholars in history and literature who have investigated myth-making and
wonder-mongering.

Thus has been cleared away that cloud of supernaturalism which so long
hung over mental diseases, and thus have they been brought within the
firm grasp of science.(410)

(410) To go into even leading citations in this vast and beneficent
literature would take me far beyond my plan and space, but I may
name, among easily accessible authorities, Brierre de Boismont on
Hallucinations, Hulme's translation, 1860; also James Braid, The Power
of the Mind over the Body, London, 1846; Krafft-Ebing, Lehrbuch der
Psychiatrie, Stuttgart, 1888; Tuke, Influence of the Mind on the Body,
London, 1884; Maudsley, Pathology of the Mind, London, 1879; Carpenter,
Mental Physiology, sixth edition, London, 1888; Lloyd Tuckey, Faith
Cure, in The Nineteenth Century for December, 1888; Pettigrew,
Superstitions connected with the Practice of Medicine and Surgery,
London, 1844; Snell, Hexenprocesse und Geistesstorung, Munchen,
1891. For a very valuable study of interesting cases, see The Law
of Hypnotism, by Prof. R. S. Hyer, of the Southwestern University,
Georgetown, Texas, 1895.

As to myth-making and wonder-mongering, the general reader will find
interesting supplementary accounts in the recent works of Andrew Lang
and Baring-Gould.

A very curious evidence of the effects of the myth-making tendency
has recently come to the attention of the writer of this article.
Periodically, for many years past, we have seen, in books of travel
and in the newspapers, accounts of the wonderful performances of the
jugglers in India; of the stabbing of a child in a small basket in the
midst of an arena, and the child appearing alive in the surrounding
crowd; of seeds planted, sprouted, and becoming well-grown trees under
the hand of the juggler; of ropes thrown into the air and sustained by
invisible force. Count de Gubernatis, the eminent professor and Oriental
scholar at Florence, informed the present writer that he had recently
seen and studied these exhibitions, and that, so far from being
wonderful, they were much inferior to the jugglery so well known in all
our Western capitals.