LANGLEY, J. N. THE PHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECT OF MESMERISM. 

 London:Royal Insitution of Great Britain, 1884. A Fine offprint in self wrappers from the Royal

Institution of Great Britain, Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday, March 14, 1884. Paperback. Fine.

Also in the 1880's Langley devoted himself briefly to the fashionable and controversial subject

of hypnotism. Reputedly an accomplished hypnotist himself, chiefly because of his remarkable

steely blue eyes, Langley sought to subsume many of the hypnotic phenomena under the

physiological concept of irradiated inhibition. (DSB Vol. 8 p. 15).....DW...

An interesting  departure from Langley's usual physiological work