Show of ulrus and animal animals I 1 take a cock and I 1 repeat repent on it t what w hat ii is known as the expert mirabile ol 01 kircher it is fresh from the barnyard and anda a very pugnacious animal if I 1 hold it it struggles and screams but I 1 haat only to place tt it quietly and firmly on a board and draw a chalk line from ita its beak which I 1 have depressed until it touches the board boar dand and it remains firmly I 1 sized it is motionless or as people w bulj say fascinated and it will remain in this position for an indefinite time I 1 take a rabbit and adjust it on its back in a trough which is only used to prevent li it from falling over and it also becomes rap idly hypnotized the same thing hap happen penti with a guinea pig or a frog or even with a young alligator the limbs are plastic can be moved in any direction and stay in the position in which they are placed so also with a number of other animals such as birds and cray crayfish flah harting states that if it this experiment be f frequent re quent ly repeated with w etli a fowl it will often bo be come permanently paralyzed in fit some of its lt limbs it if I 1 take up the hypnotized rabbit or lift the cock they at once become actis t and come out of their hypnotic into thelt natural state position tactile imbres sion slon are the means used here to produce hypnotism and possibly also mental im pres slon visual impression produces sim liar ilar effects has produced similar effects with a lime light to those which charcot produces on his hypnotic catalee gicand tic and hysterical patients Ernest iian ilan in nineteenth century |