The Magnolia gazette., 1886-01-22
A sLEEP-WALKER.
Wonderful Sonanambulism YOuched for ~
a Distinguished Physician.

Wonderful S0mnambulisn YOuched for ~
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 Dir. Mabule, the Medical
Director-in-C Chief of the Asylum 1efond,
near La Roche, Frances:
"On the 5th 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 lie.
fond Asylum, and M Chauvelot, inferno
of the service, I plunged V. Gone 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. 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 understandp ".
answered in the affirmative. That even-
ing at 7:57 o'clock, while walking in
the courtyard and conyersing with 9th
Ell patients, he stopped suddenly, his
eyes became fixed, and several slight
spasmodic eontractions passed over his
face. He passed into the hypnotic or,
rather, that intermediary condition de-
scribed by M Dumontpallier-a GO
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 hysterogenit
zones had no effect, but in short time
the patient commenced spontaneously
to 60 through the series of experiment.
to which he had previously submitted a
| my hands. He pressed his eyes with hi
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 followin!
colloquy, initiating my voice in tn
questions and answering in his owl
voice: sDo you hear meP' Yes, sir.
Give me your ARM yes, sir.' Now
", q quarter of an hour after yo
awake there will be a V ON your arm 8
the place where now mark it Oh
marked the imaginary V on his fore
army, and this v will bleed. Do yo
hearp want you to understand tht
that v must bleed!' Yes, sir. ''V., cour
ten, and wake when you get to seven
"He counted the numerals up to sever
he started, rubbed his eyes as thoug
awakening, but more slowly proceede
with the eight, nine, ten; but heremaine
asleep, as was proved by heavy snorir
which Immediately followed his wonde
full exhibition. About quarter of {
hour after this self-conducted dialogl
v. went into the peculiar crisis which '
have noticed in him after q suggest
| stigmatization. When it was over '
examined the arm and found the V whi
he had traced in his imagination, and
was covered with blood. This V was
the same spot where I have previousl
! on the Sd, produced stigmatism in t
presence of Drs. Barth and Delarr
: This same series of phenomena were !
peated thrice during the night, the I
7 tient holding the some discourse and
] result being the same each time.
, "At five % clock precisely V. awo
q without knowing that he had be
S asleep, but convinced that he b
s oeen employed in the garden
q the asylum, gathering flowe
: Here, then, we have case
9 hemorrhagic stigmatization produc
e without Intermediary, and by au
!, suggestion during induced hypnotis
s the stigmata being in the place of old st
!. matizations induced by me on form
: occasions. Drs. Ramadier and Cha
velet watched through the night with
and witnessed this remarkable exhi
q tion.n,
!, 1t would be easy to relate seve
Il other instances almost as remarkable
Ie those given above of the phenomena
hypnotism, each and every one
which is authenticated by the mar
of the ablest and best known physics
J, of France, whose experiments h
" been conducted in such a manner as
:, leave no room to doubt of the lea
u of the phenomena or the authentic
le of the details. Enough has been she
'r to illustrate the general character
" the results attained, and to show,
rs stated in the outset, that the hun
J. brain under certain conditions, moi
- y yet understood, is capable of exercis
ks an influence upon the matter compos
IN the body not possessed by it in its ]
ty NAL state Cincinnati Enquirer.
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