Hake.
But I am now going to touch upon a much more important medical
subject. Since the appearance of _Aylwin_, I have received many
letters enquiring whether the transmission of hysteria from one
patient to another by means of a magnet is an imaginary experiment,
or whether it is based on fact. It has been impossible for me to
answer all these letters. But some of them, coming from loving
relatives of those who have suffered from hysteria, have been couched
in such earnest and pathetic words that they could not be left
unanswered, and this has caused me great inconvenience. I have
therefore determined to give the reader some tangible data upon this
subject. The extract from the _Daily Telegraph_ which appears on page
465 is a real extract, and records a real case of transmission of
hysteria. Upon the same subject I take the following admirable
remarks from an article in the _Quarterly Review_ for July 1890,
called 'Mesmerism and Hypnotism.'
_The Influence of Magnets_.--We have briefly referred to the action
of magnets on the muscles in speaking of the physiological phenomena,
but they possess other properties which hardly come under that head.
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