| John Addington Symonds - Biography - 1871 - 468 pages
...in which the patient is engaged. He must depict to himself that he sees the breath passing from the nostrils in a continuous stream, and the very instant...imagination slumbers ; fancy becomes dormant ; thought ceases ; the sentient faculties lose their susceptibility ; the vital or ganglionic system assumes... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1871 - 470 pages
...gees the breath passing from the nostrils in a continuous stream, and the very instant that he bnngs his mind to conceive this apart from all other ideas,...imagination slumbers ; fancy becomes dormant ; thought ceases ; the sentient faculties lose their susceptibility ; the vital or ganglionic system assumes... | |
| James Hinton - Physiology - 1874 - 284 pages
...person must imagine that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and at the instant that he brings his mind to conceive this apart from all other ideas, consciousness leaves him, and he falls asleep. Sometimes it happens that the method does not at once succeed. It... | |
| Henry J. Fox - Commonplace-books - 1876 - 478 pages
...respiration is neither to be accelerated nor retarded too much, but a very full inspiration must be taken. The attention must now be fixed upon the action in...imagination slumbers, fancy becomes dormant, thought ceases, the sentient faculties lose their susceptibility, the vital or ganglionic system assumes the... | |
| Henry J. Fox - 1876 - 476 pages
...respiration is neither to be accelerated nor retarded too much, but a very full inspiration must be taken. The attention must now be fixed upon the action in...imagination slumbers, fancy becomes dormant, thought ceases, the sentient faculties lose their susceptibility, the vital or gnnglionic system assumes the... | |
| Charles Henry Fowler, William Harrison De Puy - Asylums - 1880 - 364 pages
...principal feature of Bliun's system is for the patient to fix his attention on his own breathing. " He must depict to himself that he sees the breath...faculties lose their susceptibility, the vital or ganglionio system assumes sovereignty — and he no longer wakes, but sleeps." Sleep Procured by Medicine... | |
| James Hinton - Physiology - 1880 - 570 pages
...person must imagine that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and at the instant that he brings his mind to conceive this apart from all other ideas, consciousness leaves him, and he falls asleep. Sometimes it happens that the method does not at once succeed. It... | |
| John Boyle O'Reilly - Boxing - 1888 - 436 pages
...he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream; and, the very instant that lie brings his mind to conceive this apart from all other...slumbers, fancy becomes dormant, thought subdued; the sentiment faculties lose their susceptibility; the vital or ganglionio system assumes the sovereignty;... | |
| John Boyle O'Reilly - Boxing - 1890 - 564 pages
...are then to be left to their own action; that is, the respiration is neither to be accelerated nor retarded. The attention must now be fixed upon the...slumbers, fancy becomes dormant, thought subdued; the sentiment faculties lose their susceptibility; the vital or gang] ionic system assumes the sovereignty;... | |
| Medicine - 1898 - 616 pages
...imagine that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and at the instant he brings his mind to conceive this, apart from all other ideas, consciousness ought to leave him. If this'method does not at once succeed, it is to be persevered in, and if conscientiously... | |
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