The word hypnotism was first introduced in 1843 by James Braid, a Scottish surgeon, who was attempting to use hypnoanesthesia. Soon after, in India, James Esdaile performed several surgical procedures using hypnosis alone as the method of anesthesia. As the use of hypnosis has developed over the last 160 years, many of the great names of . . . → Read More: Hypnotism/Hypnosis/Hypnotherapy