rprise that any one should object. It may
be said to have met with the general approbation of the Congress.

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The _Public Ledger_ of Philadelphia published last year the following
sketch of the progress of the marvellous in France:

MARVELS OF MIND AND BODY.

For several years past a number of French physicians have been
experimenting on hypnotised or mesmeric subjects and on
hysterical patients, with results of the most extraordinary
character. It is our purpose to very briefly describe some of
these remarkable experiments, from which, we may say, the
standing of the doctors engaged in them, and the critical care
with which they were conducted, seem to remove all questions
of fraud or inaccuracy.

In these hypnotic experiments as practised by Dr. Charcot, of
the Salpetriere; by Dr. Bernheim, Professors Beaunis and
Liegeois and other persons of high professional standing, the
most striking feature is that the influence exerted upon the
patient does not vanish with the conclusion of the experiment,
but may produce its effects days, weeks or even months
afterwards, when the patient is seemingly in a normal state
and controlled solely by his own thoughts. For instance, a
sensitive person may be hypnotised, or mesmerized, to use the
better known word, and it be suggested to him by the
experimenter to go at a certain hour of the next or some
succeeding day and shoot some person and then deliver himself
up to justice. On being brought back to the normal state no
recollection of this suggestion is present in his mind. And
yet, if the experiment work as truly as it often seemingly has
worked, he will endeavor at the time fixed to perform the
action indicated, with the full belief that the impulse to do
so is his own. We may quote some instances in corroboration of
this seemingly improbable statement.

CASES OF HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION.--Among minor instances of this
result, Frederick Myers relates that he suggested to a
hypnotised subject, who was engaged in coloring a sketch, that
it would be a good idea to paint the bricks blue. He repeated
his suggestion several times, and then brought the subject to
the normal state. She had no recollection of what had passed,
yet on resuming her painting some time afterwards she
hesitated, and then said