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/ deserving of the CROSSE? We all /
burss out laughing, while the gen
dsrme, upright in military position,
looks sober and eXpectaut "1ou are |
crazy" replied the doctor; "this gen
tleman is my colleague, and not NJ. |
Grevy." 81 beg your parton" con- /
tinues the gendarme; 81 know the .
Pres dent well; l have been on watch /.
at the Elysee." He has to be put TO |
sleep again in order to disposses him
of his error.
STILL ANOTHER.
Another experiment. The gendarme
is again hypnotized, and the following
speech addressed to him: when you
wake, seize the wooden spatula on this
table. 1t is n dagger. Go into the
garden of the hospital, and stop before
the fourth lime tree of the central
alley, which is the gardener of the
establishment. Get into a passion and
plunge the weapon into his heart.
When the drama is over return to tell
me about it." The gendarme awakes
and hesitates; he stops to think a mo-
ment, goes toward the table, seizes pre-
cipitately upon the spatula, and gives
pretext for withdrawing. We feign
not to observe his acts and gestures;
but we follow him with our eyes from
an open window, and see him advanc-
ing unconsciously toward the tree in
dictated.
He seems the victim of painful
obsession, looks right and left, makes
sure he is not watched, and suddenly,
with a violent movement, breaks the
spatula against the trunk of the lime
tree. He returns into the operating
room in great haste, pale, trembling
and beside himself. ARREST men' he
cried. al am a coward and a muir
dererl / have soiled an unspotted life
by an odious and stupid crime! have
killed man. "WhyP" Il don't
know. l don't know him. He looked
at me with a defiant air. l held a
knife in my hand and drove it into his
heart; heard the blade scrape against
his RIBS Mercy! mercy" and he
fa:nts. He RECEIVERS his senses; they
blow on his forehead; he is led before
the lime tree; they show him the pieces
of the spatula and its bark hardly
touched. They assure him he has been
, the sport of Authorizations he is con-
WINGED at last, and breathes like fever
, ish patient coming out of nightmare.
= GUARANTEES OF REALlI1.
l o, do not smile and shake your head;
, l once smiled and doubted also. II
5 Donate, whose sincerity l no longer
1 suspect, had made me witness these
experiments, l would perhaps have
5 persisted in my former incredulity, and
g imagined tricks and devices. But such
0 men of emineuce in nervous theraupeu-
: tics rs Charcot, Luys. Bernheim,
Liegeois and others who take an active
: part in these experiments, were my
: guarantee of their reality. 1 made
{, sure, moreover, that the patients chosen
L were honest peope, incapable of false
. hood or deceit. Then must bow down
: and believe! ~ r
) l choose the story of the gendarme
d on purpose. 1t strikes me as more
i. typical and conclusive than the OBJ
II servations gathered from women
Il whose weakness and nervous sensibility
Q make them as impressionable anC
: maIleable as may be desired. Besides
y the operators in hypnotism agree il
this: that the experiments succeed bet
@ ter with natures accustomed to obey
e 1t is not so easy to put to sleep merr,
and playful working girl as six
footer brought up in the habits of dis
8 cipline and prompt to obey commands
y OTHER STARTLING EXPERIMENTS.
u A journal three times the size of thi
% would not hold the accounts of othe
II startling experiments which | witnessed
D A magnetiZed female patient is orderet
= to drink glass of water lit is Hun
s. yadi Janos water" SAYS the doctor
70 Hardly have three minutes elapsed whel
u a collie ensues and the supposed cathar
% tic takes effect. She is told to opel
y next day book hidden in the nurse
:, room and learn the twenty-ffth pag
~ BY heart; she does not fail to obey, AM
=, recites the given page. If you questio
her about the cause of this strange &C
~ she rep les she was urged to it by an in
20 visible impulse.
is The keenness of the senses is incred
,r ible during hypnotic sleep The docto
M puts a woman to sleep at one end of
- hall, and runs to the other emf, ninet
"a feet apart; thence in a low voice, hard
10 audible to those near him, assures he
70 that her eyes are black. "No, Doctor
II they are blue. Why do you tease mel?
\ The reverse is tried; he tells her thq
~ her eyes are blue, after having sus
a gested they are black. ''Blue eye,
i, No l. Look sharp; they are as blac
a as COAST He requests her to 90 an
d kiss the sick person lying on the be
"a near hers, but is warned she will find
ID dog in place of the person. She obey
10 neverthe ess, and soon returns, saying
az There was bull dog on the bed;
it reached out my hand and he bit me;
d. and she stops the imaginary blood flow
~ ing from a wound which does not exis
," BENEFITS IN MORBID STATES.
a The doctors of medicine who have d,
;" voted themselves to hypnotic jnvestig;
rs tions have chiefly in view the benetici.