The Northwestern standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1885-1886, 1885-12-12
4. SLEEP AL.Kz.ER.
Wonderful Somnamhulism Vouched for by
9. DISTINGUISHED French Physician.


q Distinguished French Physician,
4 remarkable Illustration Of the mar
yelOua phenomena OF hypnetism is
given in full in the following hitherto
unrep0rted case Of repeated stigmatiz8-
tiou by auto-sugPestion during induced
sleep, as given by Dr.. Mabule, the
medical director-in-chief of the Asylum
Lefond, near La Roche, France:
ON the 9Th OF last month august
at my visit, about q quarter past eight
O'Clock in the morning, III the presence
Of Dr.. Ramadier, associate physician
Of the Lefond Asylum and III. ChauYe-
lot, inferno Of the service. / plunged
Y. lone Of the patients) into the SOM
nambuli3tic 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, the guardian Of your
ward: PUT me to bed. | am in need
Of sleep" You will go to bed, and
precisely at eight o'clock you VIII go to
sleep, and you viii sleep until five
O'Clock tomorrow morning, During
your sleep you will hear nothing, see
nothing and feel nothing. Do you un-
derstand?7 Y. answered in the afirma-
tive That evening at 1857 O'Clock,
while walking ii the courtyard and con-
Versing with other patients, he stopped
suddenly. his eyes became fixed, and
several slight spasmodic contractions
passed over his face. lie passed into.
the Hypnotic or, rather, that liaGer--
mediary condition described by M. Du
montpallier-a and going to the guardian
Of the ward he repeated the exact words
dictated by me IN the morning, tie was
put TO bed, and precisely at eight 'clocH
no fell into a deep slumber.
From this moment it was imF 0s-
sibie for me to awake him, because he
c0uld neither feel, see nor hear any
thing. Pressure upon the hysterogenic
zones had no effect but in "a short time
the patient commenced spontaneously
to go through the series Of experiments
to which he had previously submitted
at my hands. He pressed his eyes with
his fingers as | had done TO produce
lethargy; opened the lids as III induc-
ing catalepsy; rubbed the top OF his
head, as though trying toinduee hypno-
tism.
He then commenced the following
colioyuy, initiating my voice in the
questions and answering III his own
voice; DO you hear me?' Yes, sir
Now, ", quarter of an hour after
you awake there will be a Y on your
arm at the place where / row mark it
the marked the imaginary v ON his
forearn) and this Y will bleed. Do
YOU hear? / want you to understand
that that Y must bleed Yes, sir,
W. count ten, and wake when you get
to seven
stEe 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.
Ab0ut quarter OF an hour after this
self conducted dialogue Y Went into
the peculiar crisis which We have no
ticetl in him after a suggested seigmati-
cation. When it was over we examined i
the arm and found the Y which he had /
traced In his imagination. and II was
covered with blood. This was On
the same spot where / lave previously,
on the Sd Of August, produced stig-
aatisrn 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 Ave o'clock precisely Y awoke
without knowing that he lad been
asleep. but convinced that he had been
IN the garden of the asylum,
flowers. Here, then, we
have a case OF hemorTilagle stlglnatiEa
ton produced without intermediary
and by auto-suggestion during induced !
aypnotisn, the stigmata being IL the
place of old sagmatizations induced hy
me on former occasions. Drs. Rama
der aud 6hauyelet watched through the
night with me aud witnessed this re-
markahle exhibition.
It would be easy TO relate several
other Instances almost as remarkable
is those given above ofsssne phenomena
Of hypnotism, each and. every one Of
v Eieh is authenticated h5f tie names Of
she ablest and lest known PHYSICIANS
If France. whose experiments have
been conducted III such q manner as 70 s