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


fa:nts. He RECEIVERS his senses; they
blow on his forehead; he is lei 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 hallucination; he is con-
WINGED at last. and breathes like fever
ish patient coming out of a nightmare.
GUARANTEES OF REALITY.
o, do not smile aud shake your head;
] once smiled and doubled also. If
Donate, whose sincerity L no longer
suspect, had made me witness these
experiments, ] would perhaps have
persisted in my former incrcdulitv, and
imagined tricks and devices. But such
men Of emineuce in nervous theraupeu-
tics as Charcot, Luys. Bcrnheim,
LiegcOis and others who take an active
part in these experiments, were my
guarantee of their reality. | made
sure, moreover. that the patients chosen
were honest poop c, incapable of false
hoo or deceit. Then must bow down
and believe!
l C Dose the story of the gcndarmc
on purpose. Ii strikes me as moro
typ. cal and conclusive than the OBJ
servat' ons gathered from women,
whose weakness and nervous sensibilitv
make them as impressiJnahle and
ma lcable as may be desired. Best les,
the operators in hypnotism agree in
this: that the experiments succee bet
ter with natures accustomed TO obey.
It Is not so easy to put to sleep a merry
and playful working-girl as n six
foOter brought up in the habits of dis
cipline and prompt to obey commands.
OTHER STARTLING EXPERIMENTS.
A journal three times the size of this
would not hold the accounts of other
startling experiments which witnessed.
A magnetized female patient is ordered
to drink a glass of water. lit is Hun
yadi Janos water" says the doctor
Hardly have three minutes elapsed when
a collie ensues and the supposed cathar-
tic takes effect She is told to open
next day book hidden in the nurses
room and learn the twcnty-fifth pare
by heart; she does not fail to obey, and
recites the given page. If you question
her about the cause of this strange act
she rep les she was urged to it by an in
visible impulse.
The keenness Of the senses is incrcd-
ible during hypnotic sleep. The doctor
puts woman to sleep at one end of a
hall, and runs to the other end, ninety
feet apart; thence IN a low voice, hard Y
audible to those near him, assures her
that her eyes arc b ack. mo, Doctor,
they are blue. Why do YOU tease meP''
The reverse is tried; he tells her that
her eyes are b ne, after having sug-
gcStcd they are black blue eveSl
No l. Look sharp; they are as black
as Goa S." He requests her to 20 and
IS the sick person lying on the bed
near hers, but is warned she viii. find
dog in place of the person She obeys,
neverthc css, and soon returns, saving:
There was bull dog on the bed; l
reached out my hand and he bit me-"
and She stops the imaginary blood flow
ing from n wound which does not exist.
BENEFITS IN MORBID STATES.
The doctors of medicine who have de-
voted themselves to hypnotic jnvestiga-
| tions have chiefly I'm view the beneficial
/ effects which suggestion may cause
in certain morbid states. Successful
: cures have crowned their experiments
and justified their efforts. Paraiytics
/ have danced, thanks to the will of the
/ magnetizers; a starving and insane
woman was made to eat; persons dumb
| through nervous StrangulatiOn have de-
| livcred harangues. The great Trous-
! Scau had almost fOrcseen these super
natural auNlliaries He ordered pa
/ ticnt who could not stand on her feet to
/ be carried before the high altar, prom
/ Using her that after short prayer she
would be able TO walk. The woman
went back to the hospital dancing, with
\ her Crutches under her arm.
HOW he HYPNOrIzEs.
! 1 have carefully noted the ways of
/ hypnotizers, and was on the point of
/ describing them when l came across a
document on the subject by Mr. Bern
helm, Professor at the University of
| Nancy. The eminent Savant expresses
himself as follows:
This IS the way | proceed to hvp-
nobze: l begin by telling the patient
that it possible to cure or relieve him
by means of sleep, without recurring to
any hurtluI oT!eNtraordjnary agencies
such simple sleep as any one in good
health may enjOy-calm, beneficial
sleep, etc. If need be, | put one or two
persons to sleep before him. to show
him that this sleep is not painful and is
not followed by any bad effects. When
l have driven away from his mind in
this way the anxiety produced by the
idea of magnetism, the somewhat
mystic fear attached to this unknown
agent, he becomes confident and ready
to submit. tell him; Look steadily
at me and think of nothing else but
sleeping; your eyelids feel heavy; youl
eyes are tired; your eyes twinkle end
become mOistened; your sight is con
fused; your eyes are closed Some
subjects close their eyes and fall asleep
at once. To others / repeat and lqv fur
Their stress on my words; l add gesture
(the nature of the gesture is unimport-
anti. place two right-hand fingers
before the person; l ask him to look al
them. or pass both hands several times
up and down before his ewes; or | ask
him to look straight Mt my ewes, and
try ut the same time to concentrate al
his attention on the idea of sleep, l say
You close your eyelids- you can no
open them; your arms and limbs seen
heavy, YOU can not feel anything now
your hands remain motjonless; you car
not see anything; you are asleep;' anC
l add, in an imperiOus tone of voice
'Sleepn This word often breaks dOwr
all resistance; he closes his eyes an,
falls asleep. If the sub ect does not
close his eyes or keep them closed,
do not make him look into my eyes OIL
at my fingers very long, for some keel
their eyes open indefinitely, and, insteaC
of feeling a desire to sleep, look rigidly
before them. Shutting the eyes sue
cceds best; then, after two or three mo
ments ut the most, l keep the lid
closed, or lower the lids slowly 3nC
gently upon the ocular globes. closing
them more and more progressively, i'm
itating what takes place when sleeI
comes naturally. l end by maintainins
them closed while continuing the sug
, gestion. Your eyelids are down; y01
can not open them again; your need o
sleep becomes greater and greater; yor
can't resist any longer I lower m
voice gradually, l repeat the injunction
Sleep and sleep seldom fails to com
Mt the end of four or five minutes.