Serapis
SERAPIS By Georg Ebers Volume 2. CHAPTER V. Karnis and his two companions were a long time away. Dada had almost forgotten her wish to see the young soldier once more, and after playing with little Papias for some time, as she might have played with a dog, she began to feel dull and to think the quiet of the boat intolerable. The sun was sinking when the absentees returned, but she at once reminded Karnis that he had promised to take her for a walk and show her Alexandria. Herse, however, forbid her going on such an expedition till the following day. Dada, who was more irritable and fractious than usual, burst into tears, flung the distaff that her foster-mother put into her hand over the side of the ship, and declared between her sobs that she was not a slave, that she would run away and find happiness wherever it offered. In short she was so insubordinate that Herse lost
CHAPTER VI--Simulation--Deception in hypnotism very common--Examples of
Neuropathic deceit--Detecting simulation--Professional subjects--How
Dr. Luys of the Charity Hospital at Paris was deceived--Impossibility of
detecting deception in all cases--Confessions of a professional hypnotic
subject
CHAPTER VII--Criminal suggestion--Laboratory crimes--Dr. Cocke's
experiments showing criminal suggestion is not possible--Dr. William
James' theory--A bad man cannot be made good, why expect to make a good
man bad?
CHAPTER VIII--Dangers in being hypnotized Condemnation of public
performances--A commonsense view--Evidence furnished by Lafontaine; by Dr.
Courmelles; by Dr. Hart; by Dr. Cocke--No danger in hypnotism if rightly
used by physicians or scientists
CHAPTER IX--Hypnotism in medicine--Anesthesia--Restoring the use of
muscles--Hallucination--Bad habits
CHAPTER X--Hypnotism of animals--Snake charming
CHAPTER XI--A scientific explanation of hypnotism--Dr. Hart's theory
CHAPTER XII--Telepathy and Clairvoyance--Peculiar power in hypnotic
state--Experiments--"Phantasms of the living" explained by telepathy
SERAPIS By Georg Ebers Volume 2. CHAPTER V. Karnis and his two companions were a long time away. Dada had almost forgotten her wish to see the young soldier once more, and after playing with little Papias for some time, as she might have played with a dog, she began to feel dull and to think the quiet of the boat intolerable. The sun was sinking when the absentees returned, but she at once reminded Karnis that he had promised to take her for a walk and show her Alexandria. Herse, however, forbid her going on such an expedition till the following day. Dada, who was more irritable and fractious than usual, burst into tears, flung the distaff that her foster-mother put into her hand over the side of the ship, and declared between her sobs that she was not a slave, that she would run away and find happiness wherever it offered. In short she was so insubordinate that Herse lost