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The following summary is offered for consideration:

1. Hypnosis offers today a splendid opportunity to put suggestion under scientific control and to utilize its benefical powers according to the best knowledge of our times.
2. On the physiological side, hypnosis involves functions of the autonomic nervous system, together with its various connections.
3. The autonomic nervous system controls and regulates the mechanical activities of the body, exemplified by digestion
4. These activities are not open to any direct control of the conscious will.
5. But they are sometimes considerably modified by interference of emotions and suggestions, which constitute the two channels bridging the voluntary and the involuntary nervous systems.