HYPNOTISM: A COMPLETE SYSTEM OF METHOD, APPLICATION AND USE
Book Details + Condition: Alhambra Book Company (Chicago). First Edition, 1900. Very scarce. Hardcover with beautifully decorated red boards and spine. 188 pages. De Laurence, before becoming a well known occultist and book publisher, was a hypnotist and magnetic healer traveling though the American Midwest. This book was his first published work, a comprehensive guide to all aspects of hypnotism and other occult practices including telepathy, clairvoyance and spiritualism. The manual provides step-by-step instructions on how to hypnotize subjects, demonstrating techniques of suggestibility and venturing into the medical applications of hypnotism. Chapters include:
- The Science of Hypnotism
- Instructions For Testing Subjects
- Inducing Hypnotic Sleep
- Celebrated Table Method
- Curing Death by Hypnotism
- Cataleptic or Rigid State
- Curing Disease by Hypnotism
- Clairvoyant or Second Sight
- Hypnosis: Self Induced
- To Hypnotize by Telegraph, Telephone or Mail
- Hindoo Sleep-How Induced
- Symptoms of Hypnosis
- Hypnotism and Crime
- Hypnotism and Insanity
- Hypnotizing Animals
- Telepathy, Mind Reading and Spiritualism
- Magnetic Healing
- Treatment of Hypnotism and Suggestion
- And much more.
An increasingly rare first edition in very good condition, with firm binding; small areas of discoloration to boards; interior is clean and free of markings.
