Suggestion, Its Place in Medicine and Scientific Research: Being a Lecture Delivered on Behalf of the Leigh Browne Trust, at St. Martin's Town Hall, on February 9th, 1897 (Classic Reprint)

John Milne Bramwell

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Excerpt from Suggestion, Its Place in Medicine and Scientific Research: Being a Lecture Delivered on Behalf of the Leigh Browne Trust, at St. Martin's Town Hall, on February 9th, 1897

Admitting that Dr. Wilks' views as to the value of' drugs are distinctly pessimistic, we must still grant the importance of mental inﬂuences in relation to the ordinary medical treatment of disease. On this point, however, I shall not dwell further, but will pass at once to the subject of hypnotism.

Modern hypnotism undoubtedly owes its origin to mesmerism, and to understand its evolution, a clear conception of mesmeric theories is necessary; of these the views of Esdaile may be regarded as a fair summary.

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