hypnoscope

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The hypnoscope proposed is quite unnecessary.

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  1. See the extract. The hypnoscope, which is simply a small hollow magnet to be held on the finger, and. when thus giving rise to peculiar sensations, is claimed to show that the holder is a good hypnotic subject. Science, X. 188.

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  • Here it may be added that Dr. Gessmann, a Vienna scientist who has made a specialty of hypnotic studies, has invented and successfully applied an instrument called a hypnoscope, consisting of an arrangement of magnets for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person is a good hypnotic subject The experiments demonstrate that sensation in the hypnotic states varies between the two opposite poles of hyperćsthesia and anćesthesia; in other words, the senses may be extraordinarily exalted, as in somnambulism, or, as in lethargy, they may be extinct, except sometimes hearing. —  Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6
  • The hypnoscope proposed is quite unnecessary. —  Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6
  • Here it may be added that Dr. Gessmann, a Vienna scientist who has made a specialty of hypnotic studies, has invented and successfully applied an instrument called a hypnoscope, consisting of an arrangement of magnets for the purpose of ascertaining whether any person is a good hypnotic subject. —  Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6
 

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  1. from Greek υ%36πνος, sleep, + σκοπεῑν, view.
 

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