be noted that to Perthshire Esdaile, the famous Calcutta hypnotist and
physician, retired; but that he was unable to effect with the Perthshire
people the marvellous cures he had brought about in India. Perhaps the
Indian servant may have attracted the attention of some base imitator of
the honourable Esdaile. It may be noted that an officer of rank, whose
family were friends and not very distant neighbours in the south of
England of the late Rev. Lord Sydney Godolphin Osborne, experienced some
singular phenomena. Lord Sydney was a great hypnotist, and cured, or
believed he cured, many cases of epilepsy. The officer in question
suffered at times from a tickling in his face, which annoyed him very
much; it seemed to be more on the cheeks than in the corners behind the
nostrils.

The connection with hypnotism is seen in the next case. A much younger
man, a captain in the Indian army, who had attended many spiritist
seances, suffered much the same sort of tickling annoyance. Both were
perfectly sane, and were doubtless persecuted. They were intelligent,
capable people. A friend informs the writer that when some years ago he
visited a fortune-teller of the Mrs. Piper class in London, he had a cold
trickling up his feet, doubtless from hypnotism, to help thought reading.

The tickling of the face is the result of a more or less vain attempt to
reach the ear or eye. It will be felt by people driving whose ear and eye
would otherwise be affected. People sleeping in an exposed place may
suffer more, as the fixed recumbent position makes them obnoxious to
attack, as was previously remarked. The hyperaesthesia spreads in a
slight degree round the eye.

The nature of the eye is hardly understood yet; it is quite possible that
subconscious pictures pass before us like a cinematograph, enforcing or