Excerpt from Trance and Trancoidal States in the Lower Animals Among the many influences or combinations of influences that are employed to disturb the mental equilibrium of an animal, so as to cause increase of nervous activity in some one direction and corresponding suspension of nervous activity in another direction, so as to put him in trance or the trancoidal state, the following are the most familiar, accessible and usuable. Ist. Acting on the emotion of fear, by reducing the animal to helplessness, by ...
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Excerpt from Trance and Trancoidal States in the Lower Animals Among the many influences or combinations of influences that are employed to disturb the mental equilibrium of an animal, so as to cause increase of nervous activity in some one direction and corresponding suspension of nervous activity in another direction, so as to put him in trance or the trancoidal state, the following are the most familiar, accessible and usuable. Ist. Acting on the emotion of fear, by reducing the animal to helplessness, by tying or confinement of, some kind. This method is very effective, when united with some movement or. Manipulation that makes a strong physical impression, as when we turn a chicken's head under its wing, or place a horse on his side with one of its legs strapped, so that he is unable to help himself, or take hold ofa crab in such a way that it cannot de fend itself. The voice and the eye may reinforce the tying and confinement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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