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Show able, thr convulsive attacks ceased the moment Janet succeeded In making mak-ing her remember the episode that had caused them. Addlngtou Bruce, In American Magazine. ally returned to her she would utter piercing shrieks of terror, with cries of "Luclen! Luclen!" as If appealing to from one to defend her. Then she would rush to the nearest open window, win-dow, throw it open and lean out, calling call-ing "Thieves! Thieves!" After this tdie would Immediately re-enter her normal condition knowing nothing of ! what had occurred during tbo convulsive con-vulsive attack. Dt. Janet suspected that the scone which fh th.u3 dramatically enacted was reminiscent of Home disastrous experience of her earlier life, and to the direct cauws of her hysteria; but tbo girl assured him that fh(? know nobody natu-d Iviclen. and could not recall anything that had ever given her such terror as nho displayed. Put into th hypnotic trance, how-ever, how-ever, the patlont remembered that some years before li had leen offered of-fered a grievous assault from which a crtain Luclen had defended her; and that, a few days afterward, thieves had broken Into the chateau where nhe was working. Tbo emotional shocks caused by these experiences worn responsible for the convulsive, iK.mnambulic attacks: which. In turn, hud obliterated all recollection of the orllual experiences from the glrls w liking memory. Still more remark- HEALING THROUGH HYPNOTISM. A girl of 18 once applied at the Sal-fetriere Sal-fetriere for treatment for convluslve httacks from which she had be-u suffering suf-fering for two years. They enrue at irregular, but lnt reoslngly frequent Intervals, and Invariably began with a I fainting lit. As conBclousntts gradu- |