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Show Da. Kijjqsbcrt, of London, Eng.. calls a halt on some of the extravagant extrava-gant statements which are being made about hypnotism and its dangors. In the first place, he says that the proportion propor-tion of persons that oan bo hypnotized is very small. Out of 1,1 12 experimented experi-mented on at the Hypnotic School at Nancy, only 162 passod into a state of somnambulism. This is a little over one in every six. Next nearly all of those who pass into it are very easily aroused from it a slight pin-pick, a noise in the room, or even the operator walking away (rom them being sufficient suf-ficient None of them can be made to do injurious, criminal or iadecent things. The remarkable exhibitions given by so-called "professors" are all with carefully prepared "subjects," with which they have worked night and day. ' |