The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1884-08-28
- STGGESTION.n


Startling Experiments in HyPnotI IN by
Emiuent French scientists-SomethinE
which Threatens n Revolution ia Many
Accepted observation-disclosures Evil aud
Actual Good Results from the New Dis
Covery.
| cannot resist the temptation of send
ing your readers a translation in eX-
tense Of nh article / read lately, entitled
Suggestion IL is a startling revela-
tiOn of the results of the patient study
and experiments of eminent scientists.
The writer says: l have lately had the
opportun ty of studying a delicate ques-
tioua question of deep interest to the
medical wOrl I, threatening TO revOlu-
tionize the laws, upset cOnsecrated /
ideas, and overthrow accepted truths,
putting the most stOut-hcarted minds .
into such n 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 .
gr.maCcs and prOStratiOns of a hyStcriC- /
al or shrewd gossip. They are ear
nest and accredited men of science, |
decorated up To the chin, stuffed full Of |
Al plomas, and wearing blue glasses. /
The academies listen to their revela- /
ports, and they publish pamphlets lined !
and filled with discoveries which con |
syn TO the rear rank the names of |
Mesmer. Potel, and Donate. If n surgeon
] might name consented to lay aside |
his toga and cap to exhibit the eNpPr- |
ments which he performs successfully I
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 GENDARNIE.
It is known that for several years
past five or six pro essors az 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
seizcs hold, not upon n weak, suffering
lympha;ic, ancurc, or scrOfulous
creature, hut upon n solid fellow in
good health, a gendarme. He puts
him TO sleep, without manpulations or
gestures, by the sole effort of his will;
and placing himself behind him in
order TO avoid suspicion Of deCe t, says
TO him: Execute all my movementsr'
And according rs the operator raises an
arm, sticks out his tongue, or shakes
his limbs, tho patient raises an arm,
draws out his tongue, or shakes his
says TO the sleeper: Before you
awaken listen to what | am going to
say to You. In a month, at nine
q clock in the morning, you shall go to
the Tuileries, cross the garden on the
right, pluck white rose, and bring it
to me-. The day and hour indicated,
the gcndarme, who had not been seen
again, appears with the white rose.
which he presents to the doctor. "Hal-
lo!' says the latter, feigning surprise,
''Why do YOU Oaer me this yOseP' II
don't know; l happened to pass by the
TuilcTics moment ago. l noticed
this rose. : felt an irresistible desire to
pluck it. l pluckcd il; and, rs l was
walking this way, the idea of Offering it
TO you came to met HAS no one adj
visod YOU to do this strange act?'
Nobody Then you know me?'
''Df course l do? You called me here a
month ago and put me to sleep"
you are mistaken. "Still it seems
TO me that don't know don't I'M
derstand it all, maybe"
A SECOND EXPERIMENT.
You are not done with surprises
dear reader. The doctor looks fixedlv
at the same soldier, who immediately
drops into the same magnetic sleep.
Friend says he to the patient, "my
colleague here beside me is blonde,
slim and wears n mustache. BY and
by, when you awake, YOU shall take
him to be NJ. Grevy and ask HIM for the
cross The gendarme is drawn from
his torpor by a simple breath over his
oyelids. 1.-The President of the Re
publicr' murmurs he. and, collecting
himself, "Your Excellency," he SAYS,
a. have served twenty years, been at
ten campaigns received three wounds,
and borne an exemplary conduct. Am
j deserving of the CROSSE" We all
burs. out laughing. while the gen
darme, upright in military position,
looks sober and eXpcctant you are
crazy" replied the doctor; "this gen
tleman is my colleague, and not NJ.
GrCvy." 81 beg your par lon,N con-
tinues the gendarme; 81 know the
President we'll; l have been on watch
AZ the Elysee." He has to be put TO
slsep again in order to disposses him
of his error.
STILL ANOTHER.
Another experiment. The gendarme
Is again hypnotizcd, and the following
speech addressed to him; when YOU
wake, seize the wooden spatua on this
table. 1t is dagger. Go into the
garden of tho 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 gcndarme awakes
and hesitates; he stops to think a mo-
mcnt, goes toward the table, seizes pre-
cipitately upon the spatula, aud gives n
preteXt for Withdrawing. We feigu
not to observe his acts aud gestures;
but we follow him with our eyes from
an open window, and see him advanc-
ing unconsciously toward the tree in
dicated.
He seems the victim Of a 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 me.' he
cried. Il am coward aud muir
dererl have soilod an unspotted life
nv an odious and stupid crimel l have
Filled a man. ''VhyP" Il don't
know. l don't know him: He looked
st me with a defiant air held a
Knife in my hand and drove it into his