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To put it more specifically, hypnosis as a curative agency should be applied only to those bodily disturbances and mental ailments which are directly or closely connected and regulated by the autonomic nervous system. Suggestion does not perform miracles, let it be understood once for all. It is completely helpless in maladies rooted in anatomical defects or in physiological troubles basically independent of the involuntary system. It is, indeed, foolish to hope that hypnosis will cure diphtheria, syphilis, or appendicitis. Fully recognizing these obvious limitations, we should not at the same time forget that there exist cases, quite numerous in fact, in which the symptom has merely the appearance of an anatomical defect, as in hysterical blindness, deafness or paralysis. The physician should remain strictly scientific in his diagnosis and know how to differentiate between these psychic ailments and similar organic maladies that require ordinary surgery or are totally incurable.