His first major publication was Neurypnology, or the Rationale of Nervous Sleep (1843), written less than two years after his discovery of hypnotism.
In 1851 Garth Wilkinson[REF] published a description of Braid's "hypnotism",[REF] which Braid described, two years later, as "a beautiful description of [my system of] hypnotism" [REF].