original_query: What did Braid define as "a peculiar condition of the nervous system" induced by a fixed and abstracted attention on one object? What is the most relevant chunk to answer the query?
query: What did James Braid define as "a peculiar condition of the nervous system" induced by a fixed and abstracted attention on one object?
answer: James Braid defined hypnosis as "a peculiar condition of the nervous system, induced by a fixed and abstracted attention of the mental and visual eye, on one object, not of an exciting nature."