Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-01-14
A SLEEP-WALKER
Wonderful Somnambulism VOuched for BY
a Distinguished Physician.

Wonderful Somnambulism VOuched for BY
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;
"On the 9th of last month at my visit,
about quarter-past eight o'clock in
the morning, in the presence of DR.,
Ramadier, associate physician of the Le-
fond Asylum, and M Chauvelot, inferno
of the service, plunged V. Zone of the
patients) into the sOmnambulstic 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. l am in need of sleep.
You will go to bed, and precisely
at eight o clock you will 60 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 understand V.
answered in the Affirmative. That even
ing at 1857 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-and 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 imp0s.
sible for me to awake him, because he
| could neither feel, see nor hear any
thing. Pressure upon the hysterogenc
zones had no effect but in 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, a
though trying to induce hypnotism
"He then commenced the following
colloquy, initiating my voice in thu
questions and answering in his owl
voice: DO you hear meP Yes, sir.
Give me your arm Yes, sir. Now
", a quarter of an hour after YOU
awake there will be V ON your arm a
the place where l now mark it CHI
marked the imaginary V on his fore
arm), and this V will bleed Do YOU
hearP want you to understand tina
that V must bleedr Yes, sir. ", coun
ten, and wake when you get to seven.
HE counted the numerals up to seven
he started, rubbed his eyes as thougl
awakening, but more slowly proceeds
with the eight, nine, ten; but he remaine
asleep, as was proved by heavy snorin
which Immediately followed his wonder
full exhibition. About quarter of a
hour after this self-conducted dalogu
V. went into the peculiar crisis which W
have noticed in him after suggeste
stigmatization. When it was over W
examined the arm and found the V whic
he had traced in his imagination, and
was covered with blood. This V was o
the same spot where | have previously
on the Sd, produced stigmatism in til
presence of Drs. Barth and Delarut
This same series of phenomena were II
peated thrice during the night, the pr
tent holding the some discourse and til
result being the same each time.
sat five O'Clock precisely V. awok
without knowing that he had bee
asleep, but convinced that he ha
been employed in the garden {
the asylum, gathering flower
Here, then, we have case I
hemorrhagic stigmatization produce
without intermediary, and by auto
suggestion during induced hypnotisn
the stigmata being in the place of old stis
matizations induced by me on .forme
occasions. Drs. Ramadier and Chat
velet watched through the night with n
| and witnessed this remarkable exhib
, ton"
1t would be easy to relate sever
other instances almost as remarkable ;
! those given above of the phenomena I
hypnotism, each and every one I
which is authenticated by the namt
r of the ablest and best known physician
of France, whose experiments hay
been conducted in such a manner as
leave no room to doubt of the reali
of the phenomena or the authenticit
t of the details. Enough has been show
\ to illustrate the general character
S the results attained. and to show, ;
S stated in the outset, that the hums
I brain under certain conditions, not
y yet understood, is capable of eXercisin
Q an influence upon the matter composir
g the body not possessed by it in its nc
g NAL state. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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