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Credit: Observations on trance, or, Human hybernation [sic] / by James Braid. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![of those gentlemen 1 beg to tender my very best thanks for furnisliing me with such a valuable document. It was intended to have appeared in a new edition of my work on Hypnotism; but as the publication of that work must unavoidably be postponed for a short time longer, I have thouglit it desirable to print the original information which 1 have obtained immediately, in a separate form, as it cannot fail to be most interesting to all scientific men ; and its publication may, moreover, stimulate others to investigate and furnish additional evidence om the subject. The second case, by an eye-witness of the facts, was furnished to me by a retired Major, who served as an officer for many years in India. He requested me not to publish his name, because he understood the Directors disliked that any ofiicia! men in their service should be known to take a prominent part in anything so far out of the line of their special duties. However, after I had written my narrative of the transaction, from the facts which he had communicated to me, he was kind enough to hear it read over to him, in the presence of several mutual friends, when he ])r()- nounced it correct on tvery ])uint. He assured us that he never could forget the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21948252_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
