Make your patient feel at home, disabuse his mind of fear, doubt, anxiety, and scepticism. (Mesmerise no one without the presence of some one interested in the patient’s welfare--parents, relatives, guardians, or medical adviser). Remove, if possible, all elements which are likely to arouse or excite the patient’s mind. To succeed, the patient must either be naturally sensitive of your _influence_--_i. e._, passive and receptive--or he must be made so. Everything you do must tend to that condition. By action and speech--in everything you must show you know fully what you are about; there must be no timidity, hesitancy or half-heartedness exhibited in your manner. You must create the instinctive feeling in the mind of your patient, “that is a man I can trust; that man or person will do me good,” _and you will do it_. You can proceed to mesmerize by any of the processes already recorded, or you can adopt this method, viz.--Let your patient be comfortably placed or seated; sit or stand before him, or just at his side. Ask him to pay no attention to his friends or surroundings, but resign himself to your care. He can either close his eyes, or look to yours. Inform him if he feels any strange or peculiar feelings--a sinking sensation, darkness of vision, nervous tremulousness, drowsiness or an inclination to sleep, not to resist but _give way_. It will be all right, and you will see him through. Next, for five minutes or so, take hold of his hands in an easy, comfortable manner, or he can place his hands upon his knees, and you can lay yours with a just perceptible physical pressure on the top of them. Remain thus in contact until there is no apparent difference in temperature between your hands and his. Direct your eyes to his, or, rather, to the organ of “Individuality,” or that portion of the head just situated between the two eyebrows, at the root of the nose. Exercise your _will_ calmly and steadfastly toward the desired end--sleep. Gradually remove your hands from his, and place them on his head for two or three minutes, covering his forehead at each temple with the hollow of your hand, with fingers resting on head and your thumbs converging toward “Individuality.” Slight pressure with the hands on the temples is desirable, as it tends to check the inflow of blood to the head per the temporal arteries. You will now proceed to further _charge_ the brain with your _influence_ by passes directed to that end, always downward over the head and face,--forehead, tophead, sidehead, and backhead,--all coming under your direction, so far as such passes can be made with _direct intent_ and with ease and comfort. You will also facilitate your purpose by pointing the _tips_ of your fingers toward the eyes and temples, but throughout there must be neither vulgar staring nor thumb pressure. You will continue making these movements until the eyelids tremble, become heavy, or close. In some cases it is advisable to close the eyelids and fasten them by