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credit, did not the reputation of the physicians in charge and the standing of the hospital back up the statements.

Let me tell you what is done to those patients while in a 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 effect is produced? Quite a mystery, is it not? But being done and testified to by reputable physicians in a reputable hospital you cannot very well doubt it.

They also take a fly-blister and divide it into three equal parts, 1, 2, and 3. Number 1 theyplace upon a patient's right arm, Number 2 uponthe left arm, and Number 3 upon the arm of a person who is not hypnotized. This done, the doctor says of number 1 that it will not draw a blister, and says nothing of numbers 2 and 3.

The result is that number 1 does not draw a blister. They call that negative suggestion, which means that the blistering power is taken out of the number 1 piece of fly-blister, while it remains in the other two pieces, numbers 2 and 3. I say the blistering power is removed from 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, therefore, to the skin of the patient, and produces no effect upon it, although it is a good, strong blister, as may be seen by the effects of numbers 2 and 3, of which it was originally a part, the one fly-blister having been cut into three parts for the experiment.