First.?A peculiar physiological effect that I met with first in 1862, has not, as far as I know, been observed or published. It occurred in the person of a medical officer, who had served in India about eighteen years. Always fond of gardening, he had purchased a new house ; and, with his usual energy, laid out his compound in the most tasteful manner, with green plots of grass and numerous flo...

From the Laboratory of Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., and Studies in Hypnosis Project, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass. This work was supported by Research Grant M-3369 from the U. S. Public Health Service, National Institute of Mental Health, and by a grant from the Human Ecology Fund. We wish to thank our co-workers, Emily Carota Orne and Donald N. O'Connell for ...