One can will to remember or recall anything forgotten. I will not be responsible that this will invariably succeed at the first time, but that it does often follow continued determination, I know from experience. I believe that where an operator hypnotises a subject it very often succeeds, if we may believe the instances recorded. And I am also inclined to believe that in many cases, though assuredly not in all, whatever is effected by one person upon another can also be brought about in one's self by patience in forethought, self-hypnotism, and the continued will which they awaken.

We can revive by this process old well-nigh forgotten trains of thought. This is difficult, but possible. It belongs to an advanced stage of experience or may be found in very susceptible subjects. I do not belong at all to the latter, but I have perfectly succeeded in continuing a dream, that is to say, I have woke up three times during a dream, and being pleased with it, wished it to go on, then fell asleep and it went on, like three successive chapters in a novel.

We can subdue the habit of worrying ourselves and others needlessly about every trifling or serious cause of irritation which enters our minds. There are many people who from a mere idle habit of self-indulgence and irrepressible loquacity make their own lives and those of others very miserable - as all my readers can confirm from experience. I once knew a man of great fortune, with many depending on him, who vented his ill-temper and petty annoyances on almost every one to whom he spoke. He was so fully aware of this failing that he once, in confessing it to a mutual friend, shed tears of regret. Yet he was a millionaire man of business, and had a strong will which might have been directed to a cure. All peevish, fretful and talkative, or even complaining people should be induced to seriously study this subject.

We can cure ourselves of the habit of profanity or using vulgar language. No one doubts that a Npgro who believes in sorcery, if told that if he uttered an oath, Voodoo would fall upon him and cause him to waste away, would never swear again. Or that a South Sea Islander would not do the same for fear of taboo. Now both these forms of sorcery are really hypnotising by action on belief, and Forethought aided by the sleep process has precisely the same result - it establishes a fixed idea in the mind, or a haunting presence.

We can cure ourselves of intemperance. This was, I believe, first established or extensively experimented on by Dr. Charles Lloyd Tuckey. This can be aided by willing that the liquor, if drunk, shall be nauseating.

We can repress to a remarkable degree the sensations of fatigue, hunger, and thirst. Truly no man can defy the laws of nature, but it is very certain that in cases like that of Dr. Tanner, and the Hindu ascetics who were boxed up and buried for many weeks, there must have been mental determination as well as physical endurance. As regards this very important subject of health, or the body, and the degree to which it can be controlled by the mind or will, it is to be observed that of late years physiologists are beginning to observe that all "mental" or corporeal functions are evidently controlled by the same laws or belong to the same organization. If "the emotions, say of anger or love, in their more emphatic forms, are plainly accompanied by varying changes of the heart and bloodvessels, the viscera and muscles," * it must follow that changes or excitement in the physical organs must react on the emotions. "All modes of sensibility whatever their origin," says Luys,* "are physiologically transported into the sen-sorium. From fibre to fibre, from sensitive element to sensitive element, our whole organism is sensitive; our whole sentient personality, in fact, is conducted just as it exists, into the plexuses of the sensorium commune." Therefore, if every sensation in the body acts on the brain by the aid of secondary brains or ganglions, it must be that the brain in turn can in some way act on the body. And this has hitherto been achieved or attempted by magicians, miracle-mongers, thaumatur-gists, mesmerists, and the like, and by the modern hypnotiser, in which we may observe that there has been at every step less and less mysticism or supernaturalism, and a far easier process or way of working. And I believe it may be fairly admitted that in this work I have simplified the process of physically influencing mental action, and rendered it easier. The result from the above conclusions being that we can control many disorders or forms of disease. This is an immense subject, and it would be impossible within a brief sketch to determine its limit or conditions. That what are called nervous disorders, which are evidently the most nearly allied to emotions - as for instance a headache, or other trouble induced by grief - can be removed by joy, or some counteracting emotion or mere faith, is very well known, and generally believed. * But of late, science has established that the affinities between the cerebral and other functions are so intimately, extensively, and strangely sympathetic or identical, that it is becoming impossible to say what disease may not be temporarily alleviated or cured by new discoveries in directing the nervo-mental power or will. The Faith-Cure, Magic, Mesmerism, Religious Thauma-turgy, and other systems have given us a vast number of authentic cures of very positive disorders. But, from the point of view taken by many people, what has been wanting in all is, firstly, a clear and simple scientific method free from all spiritualism or wonder; and secondly, the art of Perfecting the cures by Perseverance. For what will relieve for an hour can be made to cure forever, if we exercise foresight, and make perpetuity a part of our whole plan.

* "Thinking all oyer," by Paul Tyner. 1897.

* L. Luys, author of "Hypnotisme experimentale." Paris, 1890, J. B. Baillres. Also "Les Emotions chez les sub-jets en etat d'hypnotisine," Paris, 1887, and several other important works on physiology. Vide " Fortnightly Review," vol. liii, p. 896, and "Pall Mall Gazette," Dec. 2, 1892.

* I refer specially here to practices familiar in Italy, as, for instance, selling the oil which has been partly burned before saints in churches, to superstitious girls who use it to attract the love of men.

Now, as regards curing disorders, I beg the reader (to) specially observe that this, like many other works, depends on the state of the mind, nor can it be undertaken with hope of success unless the operator has by previous practice in easy experiments succeeded in perfectly convincing himself that he has acquired control of his will. Thus having succeeded in willing himself to work all day without fatigue, or to pass the day without being irritable, let him begin to consider, reflect and realize that he can make himself do this or that, for the more he simply induces the belief and makes himself familiar with it, the stronger and more obedient his Will will be. However, this is simply true that to any self-hypnotist whatever who has had some little practice and attained to even a moderate command over his will, a very great degree of the power to relieve bodily suffering is easy to develope, and it may be increased by practice to an incredible extent. Thus in case of suffering by pain of any kind in another, begin by calmly persuading him or her that relief has been obtained thousands of times by the process, and endeavour to awaken belief, or at least so much attention and interest, that the fact will remain as forethought in the mind. The next step should be to promise relief, and then induce sleep by the showing a coin, passes with the hands, etc., or allowing the subject to sink into a natural slumber. If there be no success the first time, repeat the experiment. Gout, headaches, all forms of positive pain, severe colds, anaemia, insomnia, melancholia, and dyspepsia appear to be among the ills which yield most readily to, or are alleviated (to the great assistance of a regular cure) by hypnotism.

As regards curing disorders, producing insensibility to hunger and thirst, heat or cold, and the like, all are aware that to a man who is under the influence of some great and over-powering emotion, such as rage or surprise, or joy, no pain is perceptible. In like manner, by means of persuasion, sleep, a temporary oblivion, and the skilfully awakened Will, the same insensibility or ignoring can be effected. There is, however, this to be observed, that while in the vast library of books which teach mental medicine, the stress is laid entirely on producing merely a temporary cure, I insist that by great Forethought, by conducting the cure with a view to permanence, ever persuading the patient to think on the future, and finally by a very thorough continuation and after-treatment, many diseases may be radically removed.

To recapitulate and make all clear, we will suppose that the reader desires during the following day to be in a calm, self-possessed or peaceful state of mind. Therefore, at night, after retiring, let him first completely consider what he wants and means to acquire. This is the Fore-thought, and it should be as thorough as possible. Having done this, will or declare that what you want shall come to pass on awaking, and repeating this and thinking on it, fall asleep. This is all. Do not wish for two things at once, or not until your mind shall have become familiar with the process. As you feel your power strengthen with success, you may will your-self to do whatever you desire.