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THE Hypnotic Experiment OF Dr. Reeves And other Stories

THE

Hypnotic Experiment

OF

Dr. Reeves

And other Stories

BY

CHARLOTTE ROSALYS JONES

J

London

BLISS, SANDS AND FOSTER

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I. The Hypnotic Experiment of Dr. Reeves.

Dr. Edward Reeves, the celebrated Rheumatism Specialist, is not a favourite with the members of his profession. His methods of treatment being unknown, coupled with his refusal as yet to divulge them, have given his enemies and rivals a chance to accuse him of charlatanism; but to the great rheumatic public he has become a demi-god; and as long as our changeable climate continues to nurture this disease, his idiosyncrasies will be overlooked by the multitudes whom he relieves.

6In his genial moods, the doctor tells many curious anecdotes, and how some of his daring experiments were made under rather romantic circumstances. One of the strangest 

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