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LOMBARD :

M.M,

Beethoven's "Funeral March' :

played on a piano in a

neighboring room

Fig- 13. quiet, as found by twenty-

Aprii eth, io.3o p. m. five experiments taken a

short time after the sub- ject had quieted down, was 29 mm. (See Fig. 13.) Perhaps the reader is inclined to doubt that music could have had such an effect, and may wonder, as did the writer, whether it were not pos- sible that the subject of the experiments had un- consciously favored, or, perhaps, even almost man- ufactured the results. That this was the case, how- ever, scarcely seems prob- able, because the subject was never sure during the examinations of the extent which his foot moved, ex- cepting to know that the movement was slight or was considerable, and he was unaware of the close- ness with which the knee-jerks had followed the music until he saw the curves after the experiments were over. Had this been the first set of experiments which had been made on the subject it is probable that he would have been much more interested in the blows of the hammer than in the music, but as this was the sixth day of the series, and as his knee had been struck more than a thousand times during