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CHAPTER IX Hypnotism in medicine—Anesthesia—Restoring the use of muscles—Hallucination—Bad habits

Date of account: Published 1903
Source: Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use
Reference: Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use · selected passage 77
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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Piper was the wife of a modest tailor, and lived on Pinckney street, back of Beacon Hill

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Mrs. Piper was the wife of a modest tailor, and lived on Pinckney street, back of Beacon Hill. She was married in 1881, and it was not until May 16, 1884, that her first child was born. A little more than a month later, on June 29, she had her first trance experience. Says she: “I remember the date distinctly, because it was two days after my first birthday following the birth of my first child.” She had gone to Dr. J. R. Cocke, the great authority on hypnotism and a practicing physician of high scientific attainments. “During the interview,” says Mrs. Piper, “I was partly unconscious for a few minutes. On the following Sunday I went into a trance.”

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