Doctor Cornwall Round was, like his name, quite round and plum. In his younger years he had been an officer in the army, and he sometimes wondered if some indulgences in his early years might have kept him from the full demonstration of the abundant life. He was knowledgeable of Hinduism. He accepted in principle the relationship of the subjective and objective minds, together with its power building and rebuilding the body but frequently made himself the exception to the rule.
Dr. Cornwall Round was a physician and surgeon. A friend of both Harry Gaze and Thomas Troward, he was probably a student of both of their works.
“I accept the idea of a physical as well as spiritual immortality, but please do not publicize me as Doctor or I may be ruled out of the medical profession.”
At that time it was against the ethical code of the B. M. A. to use the tide of Doctor in connection with his personal opinions in the press.
Round had experimented extensively with hypnotic subjects. Because some of his results were so full of interest and significance a series of experiments were arranged in his home. Thomas Troward, Harry Gaze, officers of the Psycho-Therapeutic Society[1] and most of the physicians who had accepted and practiced mental healing attended (Some had tested hypnosis for medical usage, sometimes as an anesthetic for the milder operations). ...
