Braid is known to have performed the following remarkable experiment: "He hypnotized a patient who was nursing, and suggested an increased secretion of milk in one breast. On awaking she had no recollection of what had been done, but complained of a feeling of tightness and tension in the breast. Her husband then told her that Braid had been trying to increase the secretion of milk. She was skeptical as to the result, as the child was fourteen months old and the milk had almost disappeared. Her breast, however, almost immediately became distended with milk, and a few days later she complained that her figure was deformed in consequence. Braid again hypnotized her and suc-"As reported by Bramwell, hypnotism successfully repeated the experiment with the other breast. The patient suckled her child for six months longer, the supply of milk being more abundant than it had been at any time since her confinement." The opposite kind of experiment, to stop the accumulation of milk, was performed by many hypnotists, among them by Esdaile, Mohr and Heyer. In most instances, the mother had suffered pains in the breasts, having lost the baby.
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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