Thus, as Dr.COCKE declares, Hypnotism has not succeeded in cases suffering from what are called imperative conceptions, or irresistible belief.

"Cases suffering from various imperative conceptions are, while possessing their reasons, either irresistibly led by certain impulses or they cannot rid themselves of erroneous ideas concerning themselves and others." This means, in fact, that they had been previously _hypnotised_ to a definite conception which had become imperative.

As in Witchcraft, it is a law that one sorcerer cannot undo the work of another without extraordinary pains; so in hypnotism it is hard to undo what is already established by a similar agent.
_One can will to remember or recall anything forgotten_.

I will not be responsible that this will invariably succeed at the first time, but that it does often follow continued determination I know from experience.

I believe that where an operator hypnotizes a subject it very often succeeds, if we may believe the instances recorded.