Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-12-31
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Wonderful Somnssanhulism vouched for b
0 Dlstinauished Physician.


Wonderful Somn,sanhulism vouched for b
Distinguished Physician.
A remarkable illustration of the mar.
velous phenomena of hypnotism is given
in full in the following hitherto unre.
|! ported case of repeated stigmatization
by auto-suggestion during induced sleep,
as given by DR.. Mabule, the Medical
Director-in-Chief of the Asylum Lefond,
near La Roche, France:
ION the 9Th of last month at my visit,
about a quarter-past eight o'clock in
the morning, in the presence of DIR.
Ramadier, associate physician of the Le-
fond Asylum, and M. Chauvelot, inferno
of the service, I plunged V. Zone of the
patients) into the somnambulistic state,
and, wishing to combat 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. I 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 to-
morrow morning. During your sleep
you will hear nothing, see nothing and
feel nothing. Do you understands ".
answered in the affirmative. That even
ing at 7:57 o'clock, while walking in
the courtyard and conversing with 9TH
er patients, he stopped suddenly, his
eyes became fixed, and several slight
spasmodic contractions passed over his
face. He passed into the hypnotic-or,
rather, that intermediary condition de-
scribed by M. Dumontpallier-an 60
ing to the guardian of the ward he re-
peated the exact words dictated by me
in the morning. He was put to bed,
and precisely at eight o'clock he fell into
deep slumber.
From this moment it was impos-
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 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 leth-
argy; opened the lids as in inducing
catalepsy; rubbed the top of his head, as
though trying to induce hypnotism.
"He then commenced the following
colloquy, initiating my voice in the
questions and answering in his own
voice: DO you hear me?' Yes, sir
Give me your arm Yes, sir Now,
", quarter of an hour after you
awake there will be V on your arm at
the place where l now mark it Che
marked the imaginary V on his fore
arm), and this V will bleed. Do you
hearp want you to understand that
that V must bleedr Yes, sir ", 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 wonder
full exhibition. About a quarter of an
hour after this self-conducted dialogue
". went into the peculiar crisis which we
have noticed in him after a suggested
stigmatization. When it was over we
examined the arm and found the V which
he had traced in his imagination, and it
was covered with blood. This V was on
the same spot where have previously,
on the Sd, produced stigmatism in the
presence of Drs. Barth and Delarue.
This same series of phenomena were re-
peated thrice during the night, the pa
tent holding the some discourse and the
result being the same each time:
cat five o'clock precisely v. 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 stigmatization produced
without intermediary, and by auto
suggestion during induced hypnotism,
the stigmata being in the place of old stig-
matizations induced by me on former
occasions. Drs. Ramadier and Chau-
velet watched through the night with me
and witnessed this remarkable exhibit
ton"
1t would be easy to relate several
other instances almost as remarkable as
those given above of the phenomena of
hypnotism, each and every one of
which is authenticated by the names
of the ablest and best known physicians
of France, whose experiments have
been conducted in such manner as to
leave no room to doubt of the reality
of the phenomena or the authenticity
of the details. Enough has been shown
to illustrate the general character of
the results attained, and to show, as
stated in the outset, that the human
brain under certain conditions, not as
yet understood. is capable of exercising
an influence upon the matter composing
the body not possessed by it in its nor
NAL state. Cincinnati Enquirer.