2019 Reprint of 1908 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Professor Alexander Erskine was a doctor and a pioneer in the use of hypnosis in healing. He believed that hypnotherapy was 'a great science which should, for the benefit of mankind, be more generally understood.' And in order to explain the science and spread the word, he lectured frequently to fellow doctors as well as writing books about case histories. In this book he provides a long list of illnesses he had tackled successfully: •Nerve deafness and blindness• Neuralgia and other nerve pains• Hysteria• St. Vitus dance• Paralysis - functional, often diagnosed as organic• Muscular contraction and rheumatism.• Painless extraction of teeth, under hypnosis• Complete anaesthesia in surgical operations.• Asthma• Constipation• Women's complaints including Period headache.• Prolapsus• Headache• Sea and train sickness• Memory loss• Facial paralysis.• Colic and diarrhoea• Delusions •Hypochondria• Hemiplegia •First stages of locomotor ataxy•Sciatica• Nervous head trouble• Tinnitus and Noises in the head •Vertigo• Impotence• Spermatorrhoea.• Prostatic troubles and much more