Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-09-03
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The strange Force when u raa.inx the
Scientific Verdi.
When a person has become thor
onghly hypuotized he Is but an aatom-
atom, moving. acting. thinking nj
the will OF the operator. who can pro-
duce any sensation that he may desire.
He can destroy sensation and complete
anesthesia. The fingers OF a subject
can be sewed together, drawing thread
through the flesh. and the victim will
remain an amused spectator You can
render any sense hyperasthetic, so
that intense pain vii. be felt at the
slightest touch
Every sense can be intensified.
though no other person in the room
can be heard save the operator. yet
| the faintest whisper by him will be
heard distinctly across a wide room.
| A watch in his hand can be heard at q
distance of thirty or forty feet dis
+ tinctly. and located. even when the
subject is blindfolded.
Memory is made exceedingly acute.
so that things in normal stale which
| are forgotten are easily remembered
and recalled A young man who had
lost small article was made to re-
member where lie had it last. aud was
sent for It. and returned with it as
matter of course, though he had
searched long and painfully for It
when in normal state OF mind. II
is impossible to hypnotic an idiot. but
not impossible to hypnotic feeble
minded person, and there is a use OF it
indicated in that respect which prom
ises development to such in acuteness
and mental strength.
. It can DE made the instrument OF
many crimes. At the request of
physician present | suggested to q
/ young lady whom / had hypnotized
that she was suffering with sore
throat and pneumonia. and that she
' had high fever and was ILL Her
d pulse increased so rapidly that in the
!, space Of FIVE seconds the physician
said that the increase was at the rate
d of forty beats to the minute. 1t is my
opinion that could have killed her by
a increasing the hearts action. and that
d physician would have signed GER
n tifcate of death by pneumonia or pa
% ra,ysis OF the heart
m She was Of gentle, kindly DISPOSE
l. ton, and yet, hypnotized. would COM
nit murder at the operators dire ctior
:, as readily as she would eat an apple.
A paper dagger was placed in heI
:, hand, and she was instructed to kill 1
person present and she stabbed hin
:, with but little hesitation, and on beins
=, awakened had no remembrance Q
doing the deed. She would have com
~ mitted suicide with the same indiffer
"A ence as she committed the murder. and
10 make no plea against it. The stor,
as that comes from France that such |
- thing was done, and that the operate
:, who commanded the suicide il to b.
20 hanged for murder is all a probable
:. thing. whether the story published i
an invention or a fact A busines
%, man who could be hypnotized woul'
write check at the command OF tn
ss operator and then forget ever havinl
AN done it
The whole phenomena of faith cur
ne and so-called Christian science lie /
70 the domain of this new science. Wha
ever there is in thought transference
here.
A physician of some prominence,
an interview on the subject OF hypue
u" tism. said to a reporter:
l., From time TO time l am usin
,,h hypnotism, or suggestion, where tn
- conditions warrant it. among the sicl
40, do not claim for it any supernatur'
:. power, nor do | lessen the faith of PEE
pie In God as the healer OF our di
- eases. but I tell them that there ar
i, certain diseases proceeding from II
80 nervous system that can be modified
To- healed. and l use suggestion as
remedy. Whether l can effect
49, permanent cure by the means do n
- know yet, as there are complication
I beyond the reach of this agent
,ha The physicians OF this COUNT
~ should come up TO the use OF this. al
nj will cheerfully resign ali encroac
IA ment upon their art when they d
no, Men OF strong perceptions and don
- nant wills often see life where othe
go, prognosticate death, and bring bae
,x by the infusion of their own stro
80 wills, those who else might give up
era struggle and die.
nth mo man who has had wide {
I'm perience among the sick and the dyi
n, but what can substantiate this W
lfuI case upon case. The grosser forms
saIf materialism are giving away beft
Tn. some of the subtler forms of matte
f..lr and these fall out of our hands ia
lind presence Vi Pssenic iorees' vi j." my"
sur mater 10 ou. 'a' i''o
Id ne secret Vi me sun 'tI1
,utb God The knowledge of Him in
,vsi. domain of either morals or physics
saa, the increase of the knowledge OF lii
,,ye N. Y. World.