 | Charles Dickens - Household words - 1853 - 504 pages
...himself that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and the very instant he brings his mind to conceive this, apart from all...imagination slumbers ; fancy becomes dormant ; thought ceases ; and sleep supervenes. It will happen, sometimes, that the patient does not succeed on the... | |
 | Jonathan Pereira - 1854 - 1040 pages
...himself that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and the very instant he brings his mind to conceive this apart from all other ideas," he sleeps. " The instant the mind is brought to the contemplation of a single sensation, that instant... | |
 | Harry William Lobb - 1855 - 152 pages
...that he sees the breath passing out from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and the very instant he brings his mind to conceive this, apart from all other ideas, he sleeps." During sleep the exhausted system is restored, and the vital energies renewed ; the process... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 304 pages
...action, that is, the respiration is neither to be accelerated nor retarded. The patient should then depict to himself that he sees the breath passing...faculties lose their susceptibility, the vital or gnnglionic system assumes the sovereignty, and he no longer wakes, but sleeps. This train of phenomena... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Dreams - 1857 - 120 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... | |
 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 444 pages
...action, that is, the respiration is neither to be accelerated nor retarded. The patient should then depict to himself that he sees the breath passing...this apart from all other ideas, consciousness and 16* memory depart, imagination slumbers, fancy becomes dormant, thought subdued, the sentient faculties... | |
 | Literature - 1859 - 558 pages
...and a subject of contemplation. Its luxury has never _been more *"He must depict to himself thnt lie sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous...all other ideas, consciousness and memory depart." — Binnt. f'The poets are generally well affected to sleep; as men who think with vigour, they require... | |
 | Thomas Hawkes Tanner - 1860 - 528 pages
...engaged. He must depict to himself that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a eo»tinuoui stream and the very instant that he brings his mind...imagination slumbers ; fancy becomes dormant ; thought ceases ; the * Opiajam cilat., p. 91. f The Anatomy of Sleep. Second Edition, p. 435. London, 1845.... | |
 | Edwin Lee - Animal magnetism - 1866 - 362 pages
...necessary. The lungs are then to be left to their own action, the respiration being neither accelerated nor retarded. The attention must now be fixed upon the...consciousness and memory depart ; imagination slumbers ; thought becomes subdued ; the sentient faculties lose their susceptibility ; the ganglionic system... | |
 | 1870 - 588 pages
...must imagine that he sees the breath passing through 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 should... | |
| |
The attention must now be fixed upon the action in which the patient is engaged. He must depict to himself that he sees the breath passing from his nostrils in a continuous stream, and the very instant that he brings his mind to conceive this apart from... 
