In Hudson’s Law of Psychic Phenomena, page 153, he
“Hemorrhages and bloody stigmata may be induced in certain
subjects by means of suggestion.
“Dr. M Bourru put a subject into the somnambulistic
condition, and gave him the following suggestion: ‘At four
o’clock this afternoon, after the hypnosis, you will come into
my office, sit down in the armchair, cross your arms upon
your breast, and your nose will begin to bleed.’ At the hour
appointed the young man did as directed. Several drops of
blood came from the left nostril. “On another occasion
the same investigator traced the patient’s name on both his
forearms with the dull point of an instrument. Then when
the patient was in the somnambulistic condition, he said, ‘At
four o’clock this afternoon you will go to sleep, and your arms,
will bleed along the lines which I have traced, and your name
will appear written on your arms in letters of blood.’ He was
watched at four o’clock and seen to fall asleep. On the left
arm the letters stood out in bright relief, and in several places
there were drops of blood. The letters were still visible three
months afterward, although they had gradually grown faint.”
These facts demonstrate at once the correctness of the
two fundamental propositions previously stated, namely, the
constant amenability of the subconscious mind to the power
of suggestion and the perfect control, which the subconscious
mind exercises over the functions, sensations, and conditions
of the body.
All the foregoing phenomena dramatize vividly abnormal conditions induced by suggestion, and are conclusive proof
that a man thinketh in his beart [subconscious mind] so is be.