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*“On Inhibition of the Will,” seeRomanes, and Heidenhain, , “Animal Magnetism,”1880. “The truth appears to be that in Hypnotism we are approaching a completely new field of physiological research, in the cultivation of which our previous knowledge of inhibition may properly be taken as the starting point.”—Romanes. “It appears to me that the hypothesis that the cause of the phenomena of hypnotism lies in the inhibition of the activity of the ganglion-cells of the cerebral cortex is not a too adventurous one; the inhibition being brought about by gentle prolonged stimulation of the sensory nerves of the face, or of the auditory or optic nerve,” p. 49.Google Scholar
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