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 ' .' 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