Volume 2

Hypnotism and the doctors / [Richard Harte].

  • Harte, Richard.
Date:
1902-1903
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Credit: Hypnotism and the doctors / [Richard Harte]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    what seems to be much the same conception of electricity as our men of science are now laboriously and scientifically imagining—imagining after the facts have been ascertained—and which is making us familiar with a new conception of the Universe, with “ electrons,” or disembodied charges of electricity, for the basis of matter; and “ions,” or electrically charged atoms, for the basis of physical life. Electro-biology brought to an end the Second Act of the Hypnotic Drama ; and when the curtain rises for the Third Act we find ourselves in presence of Modern Hypnotism, with Charcot and Liebeault upon the stage. The End.