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for we believe it to be an abnormal or unnatural condition and would therefore avoid it if possible.

But let me tell you what is done to these patients while in the state of hypnosis. A drop of cold water is placed on the flesh and the patient is told that it is boiling oil. It then draws a blister. Now, how do you suppose this is done? Quite a mystery, is it not? But being done by reputable doctors in a reputable hospital you can not very well doubt it.

Then these doctors take a fly-blister and divide it into three parts, 1, 2, and 3.

• Number 1 - They place upon a patient's right arm,
• Number 2 - Upon the left and
• Number 3 - Upon the arm of a person who is not in hypnosis.

This done,the doctor says of number 1 that it will not draw a blister, and says nothing of number 2 or 3. The result is that number 1 does not draw a blister. They call that negative suggestion, which means that the blistering power is all taken away from the number 1 piece of flyblister while it remains in the other two pieces, numbers 2 and 3. I say the blistering power is drawn out of number 1, but perhaps it is more correct to say that the skin of the patient is made positive against it. The fly-blister becomes negative to the skin of the patient and produces no effect upon it, although it is a good,