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If this be Magic

by Guy Lyon Playfair

In 1951, a young doctor treated a patient suffering from a rare and debilitating skin disease - thought to be incurable - with a single session of hypnosis, unaware that he was about to make medical history. Doctors described it as 'unprecedented and inexplicable' and 'a challenge to current concepts of the relation between mind and body'.

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