The Brookhaven leader., 1886-01-14
A SLEEP-WALKEH.
Wonderful somnambuIIsm Vouohed for ~
. DIstInguL-hed Physician.

DlsttnguIhed fhysiclau'
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-Chief of the Asylum Lefond,
near La Roche, France:
"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 Le-
fond Asylum, and NJ Chluvelot, interne
of the service, | 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,
aud 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 pissed over his
face. He passed into the hypnotic-or,
rather, that intermediary condition de-
scribed by NJ. Dumontpallier-and 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 slumbtr.
From this moment it was impos-
sible for me to awake him, because he
could neither feel, see nor bear any
thing. Pressure upon the hysterogenic
zones had no effect, but in a short time
the patient commenced spontaneously
to 60 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 / now mark it Che
marked the imaginary V on his fore
army, and this V will bleed. Do you
hear? | 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
V. 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 il
was covered with blood. This V was on
the same spot where have previously,
on the 3d. produced stgmat!sm in the
presence of Drs. Barth and Delarue.
This same series of phenomena were re-
peatod thrice during the night, the pa
tent holding the some discourse and the
result being the same each time.
"At 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
hemorrhagc stigmatization produced
without intermediary, and by auto
suggestion during induced hypnotism,
the stigmata being in the place of old st'g-
matizations induced by me on former
occasions. Drs. Ramadier and Chan
velet watched through the night with m
and witnessed this remarkable exhib'
ton"
It would be easy to relate severa
other instances almost as remarkable a
those given above Of the phenomena o
hypnotism. each and every one o
which is authenticated by the name
of the ablest and best known physician
of France, whose experiments hav'
been conducted in such a manner as Il
leave no room to doubt of the reality
of the phenomena or the authenticity
of the details. Enough has been show
to illustrate the general character OF
the results attained, and to show. a.
stated in the outset, that the human
brain under certain conditions. not a
yet understood, is capable OF exerclsin2
an influence upon the matter composine-
the body not possessed by it in its nor
NAL state - Cincinnati ENQUIRER