CHAPTER VII.
SUGGESTION IN CHILDREN AND ADULTS--HYPNOTISM.
In an earlier place certain illustrations of Suggestion have been given.

By Suggestion we mean the fact that all sorts of hints from without disturb and modify the beliefs and actions of the individual.
Certain cases from my own observation may be given which will make the matter clear.
_Physiological Suggestion._--Observation of an infant for the first month or six weeks after birth leads to the conviction that his life is mainly physiological.

When the actions which are purely reflex, together with certain random impulsive movements, are noted, we seem to exhaust the case.
Yet even at this remarkably early stage H.was found to be in some degree receptive to certain Suggestions conveyed by repeated stimulation under uniform conditions.

In the first place, the suggestions of sleep began to tell upon her before the end of the first month.

Her nurse put her to sleep by laying her face down and patting gently upon the end of her spine.