Then he began to travel, being called for everywhere." GASSNER was so successful that at Ratisbon he had, it is said, 6,000 patients of all ranks encamped in tents.

He cured by simply touching with his hands.

But that in which he appears original was that he not only made his patients sleep or become insensible by ordering them to do so but caused them to raise their arms and legs, tremble, feel any kind of pain, as is now done by the hypnotist.

"'In a young lady of good family' he caused laughter and weeping, stiffness of the limbs, absence of sight and hearing, and _anaesthesia_ so as to make the pulse beat at his will." M.FIGUIER and others do not seem to have been aware that a century before GASSNER, a PIETRO PIPERNO of Naples published a book in which there was a special exorcism or conjurations, as he calls them, for every known disorder, and that this possibly gave the hint for a system of cure to the Suabian.

I have a copy of this work, which is extremely rare, it having been put on the Roman prohibited list, and otherwise suppressed.