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Braid then privately explained to the doctor the real nature and powers of his apparently magical instrument. It was nothing more than his portmanteau-key and ring, and its varied powers were merely the result of the predictions which the subject had heard Braid make. The experiments, he said, simply illustrated the power of suggestion during hypnosis: neither magnet nor portmanteau-key played any real part in them."Mesmerism, in its original form, has long been dead. However, every once in a while some scholar attempts to resuscitate the notion of "animal magnetism," though the phrase itself is no longer used. Only recently S. Alrutz and G. Wallenius propounded the theory of "nervous effluence" and that of "nervous radiation." Fortunately, few intelligent people took these views seriously. But then again, the belief in some substances or rays passing between two minds, unfounded as it is, might come back. Superstitions, it seems, have many lives. I shall not be surprised if the next form of mesmerism will be connected with "telepathy," which intrigues today many an ignorant and mystical mind.