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"SUGGESTION."

Startling Experiments In Hypnotfsm by
Eminent French notwithstanding
Which Threatens a Revolution in Many
Accepted Ideas-Conceivable EVIL and
Actual Good Results from the New Dis
covery.
cannot resist the temptation of send
ing your readers a translation in ex-
tense of an article read lately, entitled
Suggestion" 1t is a startling revela-
ton of the results of the patient study
and experiments of eminent scientists.
opportunity of studying q delicate ques-
tion--a question of deep interest to the
medical world, threatening to revolu-
tionize the laws, upset consecrated
ideas, and overthrow accepted truths,
putting the most stout-hearted minds
into such state of doubt that one can
not help asking himself the question
whether the old world has ended its
time and an entirely new social state
risen from its collapse. Its adopts are
no longer charlatans or tricksters, draw
ing an income from the real or feigned
grlmaces and prostrations ola hysteric-
al or shrewd gossip. They are ear
nest and accredited men of science,
decorated up to the chin, stuffed full of
d diplomas, and wearing blue glasses.
The academies listen to their revela
tons, the institute receives their re-
ports, and they publish pamphlets lined
and filled with discoveries which con-
sign TO the rear rank the names of
Mesmer, Potel, and Donate. If surgeon
| might name consented to lay aside
his toga and cap to exhibit the expert
ments which he performs successfully
in his lecture-room he would realize a
greater profit in one month than the
Corps DIES Ambassadors in a whole
season.
EXPERIMENT WITH A GENDARME.
1t is known that for several years
past five or six pro essorS of the faculty
follow with ardor the special study of
hypnotism, and show their colleagues
and scholars whom they associate in
their work the most startling sights.
This is what takes place: The doctor
SEXES hold, not upon weak, suffering,
lympha.ic, aneuric, or scrofulous
creature, but upon solid fellow in
good health, gendarme. He puts
him to sleep, without manipulatiOns or
gestures, by the sole effort of his will;
and Placing himself behind him in
order to avoid suspicion of deceit, says
to him: Execute all my movements"
And according as the operator raises an
arm, sticks out his tongue, or shakes
his limbs, the patient raises an arm,
draws out his tongue, or shakes his
limbs. This is not all; the operator
says to the sleeper: Before you
awaken listen to what | am going to
say to you. In a month, at nine
O'Clock in the morning, you shall go tc
the Tuleries, cross the garden on the
right, pluck a white rose, and bring il
to me. The day and hour indicated
the gendarme, who had not been seer
again, appears with the white rose
which he presents to the doctor. "Hal
lo!" says the latter, feigning surprise
.'Why do you otler me this rose?h -
don't know; l happened to pass by the
Tuileries a moment ago. | noticed
this rose. felt an irresistible desire tt
walking this way, the idea of Offering i
to you came to meP' HAS no one ad
vised YOU to do this strange act?'
Nobody" "Then you know me@
"Of course l dop You called me here
month ago and put me to sleep.
''You are mistaken. "Still it seems
TO me that don't know-I don't I'm
derstand it all, maybe"
SECOND EXPERIMENT..
You are not done with surprises
dear reader. The doctor looks fixedl,
at the same soldier, who immediatel,
drops into the same magnetic sleep
"Friend," says he to the patient, an.
colleague here beside me is blonde
slim and wears a mustache. BY ant
by, when You awake, you shall tax
him to be NJ, Grevy and ask h IN for tn
cross The gendarme is drawn iron
his torpor by a simple breath over hi
eyelids. "The President of the Re
public" murmurs he and, collectin!
himself Your Excellency," he says