Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-18
SECRETS OF HYPNOTisM.
The Strange Force which is Puzzllng the
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The Strange Force which is Puzzllng tn.
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When q person has become thor
oughly hypnotized he is but an autom.
atom, moving. acting, thinking al
the will of the operator, who can pro-
duce any sensation that he may desire.
He can destroy sensation and complete
anasthesia. 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 hypers sthetic, so
that intense pain will be felt at the
slightest touch.
Every sense can be intensified,
though no other person in the room
the faintest whisper by him will be
heard distinctly across a wide room.
| A watch in his hand can be heard at E
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 state which
q dIC easily
and recalled. A young man who ha6
lost small article was made to re.
member where he had it last. aud was
sent for it. and returned with it as e
matter of course, though he had
searched long and painfully for il
when in a normal state of mind. II
is impossible to hypnotic an idiot. but
No io,roccih11 70 hx,nnOfiz0 fanh1o-
minded person, and there is use of it
indicated in that respect which prom
ises development to such in acuteness
and mental strength.
l. can be made the instrument O.
many crimes. At the request of a
physician present l suggested to 6
young lady whom l had hypnotizeG
that she was suffering with sore
throat and pneumonia. and that she
had high fever and was ill. Her
pulse increased so rapidly that in the
space of five seconds the physic ian
said that the increase was at the rate
of forty beats to the minute. 1t is my
opinion that 1 could have killed her by
increasing the hearts action, and that
a physician would have signed GER
titicate of death by pneumonia or pa
raiysis of the heart.
She was of a gentle, kindly DISPOSE
ton, and yet, hypnotized, would COM
nit murder at the operators dire ction
as readily as she would eat an apple.
A paper dagger was placed in her
hand, and she was instructed to kill
person present. and she stabbed him
with but little hesitation, and on being
awakened had no remembrance of
doing the deed. She would have COM
mitted suicide with the same indiffer.
ence as she committed the murder, and
make no plea against it. The story
that comes from France that such a
thing was done, and that the operator
who commanded the suicide is to be
hanged for murder is all a probable
thing. whether the story published is
an invention or fact. A business
man who could be hypnotized would
operator and then forget ever having
done it.
The whole phenomena of faith cure
and sO-called Christian science lie in
the domain of this new science. What
ever there is in thought transference is
here.
A physician of some prominence, in
an interview on the subject Of hypno-
tism. said to reporter:
From time to time I am using
hypnotism, or suggestion, where the
conditions warrant it, among the sick. |
do not claim for it any supernatural
power, nor do | lessen the faith Of peo- |
pie in God as the healer of our dis |
eases, but | tell them that there are |
certain diseases proceeding from the |
nervous system that can be modified or
healed. and l use suggestion as
remedy. Whether / can effect |
cure by the means l do not |
know yet, as there are complications
beyond the reach of this agent
THE physicians of this country |
should come up to the use of this, and |
will cheerfully resign all encroach- |
nent upon their art when they do |
Men OF strong perceptions and domi- |
lant wills often see life where others |
)rngnOsticate death, and bring back, |
oy the infusion of their own strong |
wills, those who else might give up the |
struggle and die.
mo man who has had a wide ex-
)erience among the sick and the dying |
put what can substantiate this with |
case upon case. The grosser forms of |
are giving away before
some of the subtler forms of matter,
md these fall out Of our hands in the |
presence of psychic forces, of which all
matter is but varied manifestation.
The secret of life is still the secret of |
God. The knowledge of Him in the
domain of either morals or physics is
;he increase of the knowledge of life"
N. Y. World.