te, but if a letter is dictated to him out loud he will
write in an irregular hand. The subject may also be made to sing, scream
or speak different languages with which he is entirely unfamiliar. This
is, however, a verging toward the somnambulistic stage, for in deep
catalepsy the patient does not speak or hear. The state is produced by
placing the hands on the head, the forehead, or nape of the neck.

THE SOMNAMBULISTIC STAGE.

This is the stage or phase of hypnotism nearest the waking, and is the
only one that can be produced in some subjects. Patients in the
cataleptic state can be brought into the somnambulistic by rubbing the
top of the head. To all appearances, the patient is fully awake, his
eyes are open, and he answers when spoken to, but his voice does not
have the same sound as when awake. Yet, in this state the patient is
susceptible of all the hallucinations of insanity which may be induced
at the verbal command of the operator.

One of the most curious features of this stage of hypnotism is the
effect on the memory. Says Monsieur Richet: "I send V---- to sleep. I
recite some verses to her, and then I awake her. She remembers nothing.
I again send her to sleep, and she remembers perfectly the verses I
recited. I awake her, and she has again forgotten everything."

It appears, however, that if commanded to remember on awaking, a patient
may remember.

The active sense, and the memory as well, appears to be in an exalted
state of activity during this phase of hypnotism. Says M. Richet:
"M----, who will sing the air of the second act of the Africaine in her
sleep, is incapable of remembering a single note of it when awake."
Another patient, while under this hypnotic influence, could remember all
he had eaten for several days past, but when awake could remember very
little. Binet and Fere caused one of their subjects to remember the
whole of his repasts for eight days past, though when awake he could
remember nothing beyond two or three days. A patient of Dr. Charcot, who
when she was two years old had seen Dr. Parrot in the children's
hospital, but had not seen him since, and when awake could not remember
him, named him at once when he entered during her hypnotic sleep. M.
Delboeuf tells of an experiment he tried, in which the patient did
remember what had taken place during the hypnotic condition, when he
suddenly awakened her in the midst of the hallucination; as, for
instance, he told her the ashes fr