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one of the elephants of the Zoo who had become
restive, sounded exactly like hypnotic suggestion.
Most birds are easily hypnotizable, everybody
knows how easily it is done with chickens. In
all dealings with animals, wild and tame, the
soothing influence of the monotonous sound of
slowly repeated words can easily be verified by
every observer, so much so that it almost seems
as if they understood the very meaning of what
one said to them—what would I not give if I
could understand what they said to me! Still it
is obviously impossible to speak of mental
suggestion here. There must be some other power at
work, I ask again and in vain, what is this power?
Among my patients I had handed over to
Norstrom during my absence in Sweden was a bad
case of morphinomania nearly cured by hypnotic
suggestion. As I was anxious that the treatment
should not be interrupted I made Norstrom assist
at the last séance. He said it was quite easy and
the patient seemed to like him. On my return
to Paris she had fallen back into her old habits,
my colleague had been unable to hypnotize her.
I tried to make her explain the reason of his
failure, she said she could not understand it
herself, she was very sorry, she had tried her best and
so had Norstrom whom she said she liked very
much.
Charcot once sent me a young foreign diplomat,
a bad case of sexual inversion. Both Professor
Kraft-Ebing, the famous specialist of Vienna and
Charcot himself had been unable to hypnotize
this man. He himself was most anxious to be
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