Hypnotism and disease : a plea for rational psychotherapy / by Hugh Crichton Miller.
- Crichton Miller, H. (Hugh), 1877-1959.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Hypnotism and disease : a plea for rational psychotherapy / by Hugh Crichton Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![childish, psychopathically inferior, hysterical, psychically weak, ethically defective individuals, in whom the possibility of resistance is diminished by a feeble cultivation of the moral balance.” One of the more practical questions connected with hypnotism and crime lies in the influencing of patients to favour the hypnotising physician in their wills. A famous and now classical case was that of Dr. Kingsbury, and I cannot do better than; quote Lloyd Tuckey’s account of it :— “ In July, 1898, there was a sensational law case in which I wa]s subpoenaed to give evidence. Dr. Kingsbury, of Blackpool, was appointed executor and residuary legatee under the will of an old lady patient. The son, as heir-at-law, disputed the will on the ground of undue influ- ence, and it was alleged that the doctor had hypno- tised the patient and by hypnotic suggestion had got her to make the will in his favour. The charge entirely broke down, and Dr. Kingsbury won the verdict. “ It came out in the evidence that Mrs. Howard was on bad terms with most of her family, in- cluding the plaintiff, that she was greatly attached to Dr. Kingsbury, and that he had been very devoted in his attendance on her for more than ten years, and was her confidential adviser in all her difficulties. They used to talk a great](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28141349_0240.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
