II. Healers of disease by mental methods; their methods;
Greatrakes; Gassner 176
III. Mesmer; the beginnings of Animal Magnetism;
Mesmer's career in Paris; the Commission of 1784;
decline of Mesmerism 180
IV. The system of Animal Magnetism; its practices; a
critical view 189
V. Puységur and the discovery of artificial
somnambulism; the status of Puységur; Pétetin and
his contributions 193
VI. The revival of Mesmerism; Abbé Faria; somnambulism
in the hospitals of Paris; the report of the
Commission of 1825; the report of the Commission
of 1837 200
VII. James Braid; his early observations; his
enunciation of the physiology of the hypnotic
state; his connection with phrenology; his later
views; his recognition of unconscious deception 205
VIII. The chaotic condition of hypnotism in the middle
decades of the nineteenth century; hypnotism
as an anæsthetic; scientific contributions 213
IX. Extravagances of Mesmerism; Deleuze and his
followers; "electro-biology;" Harriet Martineau's
letters on Mesmerism; Mesmeric miracles;
Reichenbach and the "odic" force 216
X. Transition to modern hypnotism; the scientific
recognition of hypnotism; Charcot and his followers;
Bernheim and the school of Nancy 227
XI. Principles illustrated by the history of hypnotism;
lack of proper conceptions; unconscious suggestion;
conclusion 231
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ANALOGY
I. The logical and psychological aspects of analogy 236
II. Analogy and primitive mental life; illustrations;
sympathetic magic based upon analogy; further
illustrations 238
III. Analogy the basis of belief in the connection
between object and name; illustrations; similar
relation between the object and its image, drawing,
or shadow 243
IV. Analogy and metaphor; vaguer forms of analogy 248
V. Analogy in children 250
VI. Analogy in superstitions and folk-lore customs;
in dream-interpretation; in fortune-telling; in
numbers; in folk-medicine 252
VII. The doctrine of sympathies; of signatures;
astrology; the rôle of analogy in these systems;
their modern survivals 261
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