Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-11-30


Alnese - old - the world itself.
b Tie PLEASANT belief in the mysteri.
- power q sweet sounds TO soothe
he roegher passions that 20 often
ind lodgemsst in the Luman breast.
Tie ancients loved TO carry this
beautiful faith even beyond our own
c1esd, and thus We heay them de-
the feats Of Apollo and
Orpheus; how, through the strange
melody produced by these heavenly
experts, domestic animals were
moved, the Wild beasts Of the forest
and desert we've subduei and even
the hinty rocks were melted into
tears and found themselves endowed
with the faculties Of sentient beings.
We believe it was Pauza, Of Turin,
Who demonstrated that the most re-
fractory cases Of lunacy could be
subdued by the agency Of violet
light; bot an equal, il not q higher
honor, has been achieved by Ameri-
can experimenters. Not long since,
Mr.. j. n. Pa,tison. DIR. NJ. 4. Will
son and Commissioner Thomas Bren-
an, visited the Lunatic Asylum,
On Wards aud Blackwell's Islands
and there made series Of very in
teres,ing, and, wi,bal, curious ex-
per:ments. The firsttrial was made
at Blackwell's Island, upon one OF
the worst and most confirmed cases
of acute mania. This subject was q
woman, who perpetually muttered
incoherently between her teets-
Mr.. Pattison began 20 play the in
PRODUCTION to the Lichnowsky Sonata
of Beethoven and the effect was al"
most instantaneous upon the poor
maniac. A smile lighted up her
shriveled countenance and she i'm.
mediately began to talk in unison
with the key in which the music was
written. A reporter who was pres
emit, desired the musician to change
the key. Mr.. Pattison did so, and
began playing in another letter
when the woman almost as suddenly
changed her tone, likewise, to thai
of the new key. After playing sew
eral different keys in the major
mode, E minor was chosen. Mo-
more than half q dozen notes were
struck before the woman commenced
as it were, a mournful refrain Il
what she had been previously NUT
tering, initiating exactly the solemn
, ;ntonation of the instrument. Blu
till more wonderful results were
obtained. By more carefully tried
experiments, the pulse of cataleptoit
patients was plainly influenced BY
the varying etrains brought out BY
the performer. A pulse Of 100 wal
reduced to "a within the space o
two minutes, and one Of 80 reduced
to ~ in three minutes. A ravine
woman, noted for her fighting pro
pensities was completely subduet
and made to sob like q child, whit.
listening to " Home, Sweet Home.
Rather q dangerous lunatic, a Ger
man woman was made to hear one o.
Kuchen's pieces, =" Waun die Scha,c
ben heim,Uavf sichan;" when she be
gan to weep; but when the " Wach
am Rhein," was played, she becam
furious and almost manageable
The strangest of all was the case 0
an insane man who had apparent.
lost all power to walk. He wa
brought into the MUSHROOM an,
placed in the middle of the floor
No sooner were the keys of the pi
ano touched than the poor invali.
made vigorous efforts to rise and &C
tually succeeded in beginning Il
dance, when he was caught ant
again seated by the attending ply
sicsn and bis assistants. When TIL
Wsuderer" was played, he became
seemingly as rational IS anybody
in the room. A crazy woman while
listening at the same time. jumped
up and exclaimed. Glow beautiful
Ny God, how beautiful" II il th.
intention Of Mr.. Pattison to institute
further investigations, believing, q
he firmly does that music may pos
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