Address delivered at the annual meeting of the Reading Pathological Society, on September 3rd, 1890, on hypnotism, its nature & its cause / by R.C. Shettle.

  • Shettle, Richard Charles.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Address delivered at the annual meeting of the Reading Pathological Society, on September 3rd, 1890, on hypnotism, its nature & its cause / by R.C. Shettle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    ANNUAL ADDRESS, SEPTEMBER 3rd, 1890. HYPNOTISM, ITS NATURE AND ITS CAUSE. Gentlemen, When I accepted the distinguished and honourable position of President of this Society for a second year, I Httle knew what was before me, and how totally unable I should be to attend after November the Monthly Meetings of the Session. A severe attack of Influenza accompanied by Pneumonia, rendered it necessary that I should avoid exjaosure to the cold nights of the winter: then, just prior to two meetings I received sudden and urgent calls to pay a country visit. Upon two other occasions personal matters required my presence elsewhere. For my great defections in the past I must ask your kind forgiveness, and for the remarks which I am about to make upon the nature and cause of Hypnotism, your equally kind and patient consideration. Some present may, perhaps, think that after the articles on this subject which have appeared in popular form in the periodical literature of the last few months, and in a more professional aspect in recent medical literature, as well as the discussion at the last meeting of the British Medical Associa- tion? the topic has become threadbare; but my object will be