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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over 200 tickets were mailed out yesterday from the secretaries' office, and from now on men wishing tickets should apply and call for them in person at the Union newsstand. The price is $7 per couple and $4 per stag if tickets are bought in advance...
...mountebanks and spiritualists caused fear and contempt of hypnotism in the U. S. and brought about its practical divorce from medicine. Almost anyone can hypnotize another person, if the other is willing. Skilled and tactful hypnotists can put nine out of ten subjects into that deep pseudo-sleep. (Hypnosis is closely related to but not the same as sleep.) Automatic handwriting, mediumistic speech and the like phenomena of spiritualism can be rationally explained as exhibits of hypnotism. Stage magicians put their victims through all sorts of antics for the laughter and admiration of audiences.** Consequently U. S. people, even though...
Technique. After a person has consented to hypnotization (and consent is practically always essential) the simplest procedure is to put him in an easy posture. An easy-chair is excellent, a bed less so because it takes practice to be at ease while in bed and with a relative stranger present. The patient fixes his eyes steadily upon an object placed so that he must strain his sight slightly. A monotonous sound, as from a metronome, drum or chant aids in putting him into somnolescence. The physician may pass his hands slowly and regularly before the staring eyes. But that...
Aftereffects. A person once hypnotized can usually be hypnotized again, with greater ease as the procedures are repeated. But his will is not weakened, nor is he apt to fall spontaneously into hypnosis. Unless he is predisposed, perhaps in deep subconsciousness, to improper acts, he will not follow the will of an unscrupulous operator...
...that year (1924) 79 billion dollars was the U. S. income; for each person $685. Other rankings were: Great Britain 19 billions, each person $430; France 9 billions, each person $225; Germany 13 billions, each person $210; Canada $2,500,000,000, each person $270; Italy $4,330,000,000, each person $105; Japan $2,765,000,000, each person...