If there be no success the first time, repeat the experiment.
Gout, headaches, all forms of positive pain, severe colds, _anaemia, insomnia, melancholia_, and dyspepsia appear to be among the ills which yield most readily to, or are alleviated (to the great assistance of a regular cure), by suggestion.
As regards curing disorders, producing insensibility to hunger and thirst, heat or cold, and the like, all are aware that to a man who is under the influence of some great and overpowering emotion, such as rage or surprise, or joy, no pain is perceptible.

In like manner, by means of persuasion, sleep, a temporary oblivion, and the skillfully awakened Will, the same insensibility or ignoring can be effected.
There is, however, this to be observed, that while in the vast library of books which teach mental medicine the stress is laid entirely on producing merely a temporary cure I insist that by great Forethought, by conducting the cure with a view to permanence, ever persuading the patient to think on the future, and finally by a very thorough continuation and after-treatment many diseases may be radically removed.
To recapitulate and make all clear we will suppose that the reader desires during the following day to be in a calm, self-possessed or peaceful state of mind.

Therefore at night, after retiring, let him first completely consider what he wants and means to acquire.

This is the Forethought, and it should be as thorough as possible.

Having done this, will or declare that what you want shall come to pass on awaking, and repeating this and thinking on it, fall asleep.