In ten minutes she was in a sound sleep, and soon passed into a somnambulistic condition.

The process was repeated many days, and she gradually became sane while in the hypnotic condition, but still raved when she woke.
"Gradually then she began to accept hypnotic suggestion, and would obey trivial orders given her while asleep, such as to sweep her room, then suggestions regarding her general behavior; then, in her hypnotic condition, she began to express regret for her past life, and form resolutions of amendment to which she finally adhered when she awoke.
Two years later she was a nurse in one of the Paris hospitals, and her conduct was irreproachable.

M.Voisin has followed up this case by others equally striking." This is not only an unusually well authenticated instance, but one which seems to carry conviction from the manner of narration.

Yet it would be absurd to declare that the subject neither deceived herself nor others, or that the doctor made no mistakes either in fact or involuntarily.

The whole is, however, extremely valuable from its _probability_, and still more from its suggesting experiment in a much more useful direction than that followed in the majority of cases recorded in most books, which, especially in France, seem chiefly to have been conducted from a melodramatic or merely medical point of view.