Persons have been known to drink kerosene or diluted ink with apparent pleasure, as if it were wine, tea or milk, depending on the suggestion. Persons have been known to turn away with the expression of disgust on their faces from an excellent perfume; or to inhale with delight the vapors from a bottle of ammonia. Perception, evidently, is subject to serious modification in hypnosis.Krafft-Ebing made his subjects develop goose-pimples by suggesting a cold bath to them; also to lower or raise their bodily temperature, in accordance with his directions. Bramwell changed the rate of pulsation, to range on different occasions between sixty and over one hundred beats per minute. Eichelberg caused fever, in the same manner. Skin blisters were produced by suggesting a burn in experiments undertaken independently by Wetterstrand, Schrenck-Notzing, Delboeuf, C. Kreibich, F. Heller, and others. Even time could be regulated in some instances almost to the minute when blisters were to appear.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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