The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-08-29
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dicated.
He seems the victim of a painful
obsession, looks right and left, makes
| sure he is not watched, and suddenly,
W TIL 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. 81 am coward and a muir
derer! have soiled an unspotted life
by an odious and stupid crime! l have
killed a man, ..iyhy?" 81 don't
know. / don't know him. He looked
at me with a defiant air. / held a
knife in my hand and drove it into his
heart; heard the blade scrape against
his ribs! Mercy! mercy ami he
fants. He recovers 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 hallucination; he Is con-
WINGED at last. and breathes like fever
ish patient coming out of nightmare.
GUARANTEES OF REALITY.
o, do not smile and shake your head
l once smiled and doubted also. If
Donate, whose sincerity / no longer
suspect, had made me witness these
experiments, | would perhaps have
persisted in nv former incredulity, and
| imagined tricks and devices But such
men of emineuce in nervous theraupcu-
tics as Charcot, Luys. Bernheim,
Liegeois 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 Peep e, incapable of false
hool or deceit. Then must bow down
and believe.
/ C Dose the story of the gendarme
on purpose. 1t strikes me IS moro
typical and conclusive than the OBJ
servat;ons gathered from women,
whose weakness and nervous sensibilitv
make them as impressionahle and
ma leable rs may be desired. Best les.
the operators in kypnctism agree in
this: that the experiments succeed bet
ter with natures accustomed to obey.
/ 1t is not so easy to put to sleep merry
and playful working girl rs a 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 glass of water. ut is Hun
yadi Janos water" SAYS the doctor.
Hardly have three minutes elapsed when
. cole ensucs and the supposed cathar-
tic takes effect. She is told TO open
next day book hidden in the nurses
room and learn the twcnty-iifth page
! BIZ heart; she does not fail to obey, and
rectes the given page. 1fyOu question
her about the cause of this strange act
she rep les size was urged to it by an in
visib impulse.
The keenness of the senses is incred-
ible during hypnotic sleep. The doctor
puts woman 10 sleep ut one end of a
| hall, and runs TO the other emf. ninety
feet apart; thence in n low voice, hard y
audible TO those near him, assures her
that her eyes are b ack. mo, Doctor,
they are blue. Why do YOU tease me?'
The reverse is tried; he tells her that
her eyes are b.ue, after having sug-
gested they are black. BLUE eyes.
No /. Look sharp; they are rs black
as Goa s!'' He requests .ier to 90 and
K IS the sick person lying on the bed
near hers, but is warned She will find
! dog in place of the person. She obeys,
neverthe ess, and soIn returns, saving:
| There was bul dog on the bed; 1
reached out my HAND and he bit me-"
and she stops the imaginary blood flow
ing from a wound which does not exist.
| BENEFITS IN sORBID STATES.
The doctors of medicine who have de-
voted themselves to hypnotic investiga-
tons have chiefly in view the beneficial
effects which suggestion" may cause
in certain morbid states. Successful
cures have crowned their experiments
and justified their efforts. faraiyticS
have danced, thanks to the vii of the
magnetiZe-S; starving and insane
woman was made TO eat; persons dumb
| through nervous stran~ulation have de-
/ livered harangues. The great Trous-
seau had almost foreseen these super
natural auxilia' is. He ordered a pa
tient who cou d not stand on her feet to
be carried before the high altar, prom
! ising her thai after 4 short prayer she
would be able 10 walk. The woman
went back 10 the hospital dancing, with
her crutcheS under her arm.
HOW HE HYPNoTHES.
l have carefully noted the WAYS of
hypnotizerS, and was on the point of
describing them when came across a
document on the subject by Mr.. Bern
helm, Professor at the University of
| N
himself as follows:
This is the way proceed TO hyp-
notize: begin by telling the patient
that it possible to cure or relieve him
BIZ means of sleep, without recurring TO
any hurtfuI or,,eXtraordinary agencies
such simple sleep as any one in good
health may enjoy-calm, beneficial
sleep. etc. If need be, l 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
| have driven away from his mind in
this way the anxiety produced by tine
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: your
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 Ivy fur
ther stress on my words; | add gesture
the nature OF the gesture is unimport-
anti. lplace two right-hand fingers
before the person; l ask him to look at
! thom or mass both hands several times