The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-12
A. SLEEP-.WALKER
Wonderful sonnamhuism Vouched for by
9. DISTINGUISHED French Physician.

Wonderful soulnamhuhsm Vouched for by
q Distinguished French Physician.
A remarkable Illustration of the mar,
yelous phenomena Of hypnetism is
given in full III the following hitherto
unreported case Of repeated stigmatiza-
tion by auto-sugPestio during induced
sleep, as given by DR.. Mabule, the
medical director-in-c chief Of the Asylum
Lefond, near La Roche, France:
ION the 9Th Of last month (August)
at my visit, about q quarter past eight
O'Clock in the morning, in the presence
of Dr. Ramadier, associate physician
Of the Lefond Asylum, and III. Chauve-
lot, inferno Of the service, plunged
Y. lone Of the patients) into the SOM
nambulistic state, and, wishing to COM
bat the insomnia with which he had
lately been suffering, / said to him:
This evening near eight o'clock you
will say to Ernest, heguardian of your
ward: PUT nae to bed. [ am in need
of sleep" You will go to bed, and
precisely at eight o'clock you Will go to
sleep, and you will sleep until five
O'Clock tomorrow morning During
your sleep you will hear nothing, see
nothing and feel nothing. Do you UNI
derstand!' v. answered in the afirma-
tive. That evening at 1857 O'Clock,
while walking in the courtyard and con-
yersing with other patients, he stopped
suddenly, his eyes became fixed, and
several slight spasmodic contractions
passed over his face He passed intq
tue hypnotic Or, rather, that liter
mediary condition described by M. Du-
montpelier and going to the guardian
of the ward he repeated the exactWords
dictated by me in the morning. He was
put to bed, and precisely at eight O'CLOCK
he fell into a deep slumber.
From this moment it was imI os-
sible for me to awake him, because he
could neither feel, see nor hear any
thing. Pressure upon the hysterogenic
zones had no effect, but in q short time
the patient commenced spontaneously
to go through the series Of experiments
to which ne had previously submitted
at my hands. He pressed his eyes with
his fingers as l had done to produce
lethargy; opened the lids as in induc-
ing catalepsy; rubbed the top OF his
head, as though trying toinduce hypno-
tism.
.sHe then commenced the following
collovuy, Initiating my voice IN the
questions and answering in his own
voice: sDo you hear me2' Yes, SIR
Now, ", a quarter of al. hour after
you awake there will be q Y on your
arm at the place where | now mark it
The marked the imaginary Y on his
forearnl, and this Y will bleed. Do
You hear2 | want you to understand
that that Y must bleedl Yes, sir. :
'Y.. count ten. and wake when you get
to seven.
HE counted the numerals up to
seven. he started, rubbed his eyes as
though awakening, but more slowly
proceeded with the eight, nine, ten;
but he remained asleep, as was proved
BY heavy snoring which Immediately
followed his wonderful exhibition,
About {; quarter of an hour after this
self-eonductei dialogue 7. Went into
the peculiar crisis which we have no..
ticed in him after a suggested stigmati-
cation. When it was over We examined
the arm and found the Y which he had
traced in his imagination, and it was
covered with blood. This Y was on
the same spot where have previously,
on the Sd of August, produced sstig-
matism in the presence of Drs. Barth
and Delarue. This same series Of
phenomena were repeated thrice dur
ing the night, the patient holding the
same discourse and the result being
the same each time.
AT i've o'clock precisely Y. awoke
without knowing that he had been
asleep. but convinced that he had been
employed in the garden of the asylum.
gathering flowers. Here. then, we
have case of hemorrhagic stignatiza-
ton produced without intermediary
and by auto-sugge during induced
hypnotism, the stigmata being III the
place Of old stignlatiaations induced BY
me en- former occasions. Drs. Rama-
der and Caauvelet watched through the
night with me and witnessed this re-
markahle exhibition.
1t would be easy to relate several
other instances almost as remarkable
as those given above Of the phenonena
of hypnotism, each and. every one OF |
which is authenticated by the names OF
the abIest and best known PHYSICIANS
of France, whose experiments nave
been conducted i'll such manner as g