The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-10
IoNE HYPNOTIC FACTS.
.--7ANCEs OF THE EXERCISE OF
his STRANGE POWER.

uoyy HypnOIlSA O4ASAS A4O-4
oa,,,bulism and Catalepsy-SomeR Re
-.orzsble Experiments Performed in
Observation-Disclosures Of All Phases
that Are Believed to be Authentic.
from the Washington Star.
r.. conviction OF the two Paris strang-
-. Fvraud and Gabrille Bompard, an
mi Of whose deed was recently pub
49, in the Star, showed some curious
49,, in regard to hypnotism. 1t appears
' Io.. the woman, when in hypnotic state,
-soorssd the crime in all its details, and
-, she was in a normal condition was
-.,nsoious that she had done so. 1t is
liable. TOO, that the acting of tha crime
more accurately performed by the
ian bvpnotizod than it would have been
,-+ba woman with all her normal senses
about her.
M all the strange things on earth the
..e.,gest are hynotism, somnembulism and
i-aams. Simple mesmerism IS not so ex-
lIiSor5insrv. The explanation that DR..
1tsiian1 r. Carpenter, the British specialist,
,,Tss is certainly reasonable. A person
e. ia mesmerized is under the influence OF
Va rnasmerizer ard his own imagination.
h,.t Will OF lHS L4GntliCA lLCA WAL NV 10
.D-acnted by the subject unless it IS ex-
e1osssd TO him. He must be told what be is
P-.Toctsd TO do, otherwise he will act accord
- his own view of what is expected
~ him. no matter how different may
- The silent wish OF the operator.
stilIful operator may be introduced
;n,o the same room with the best of sub
iacts and if the latter is Ignorant OF MS
ygrasepce be is powerless to affect him, The
sctual known presence and generally
nSysicsl contact are necessary to produce
gynasmeric influences. This is generally
tnown as animal magnetism and is not
Circumstance in its strange inexplicableness
~ bvnnotism and its different manifesto
tions The latter, which is, perhaps, more
correctly known as somnambulism, is now
receiving more attention from the sclentlhc
vTorld t6cn Yves ever given to it before, and
tits 10 be hoped that some definite coDclu-
SONS may soon be reached in regard to 1T
REMARKABLE BALTIMORE SUBJECT.
About eighteen months ago a select party
NJ ne5pe IN Washington was treated to an
exhibition of this peculiar disease, which
certainly deserves to be recorded. A young
cirl who resided in Baltimore had excited a
great deal Of interest among the physicians
If that CITY, because Of the peculiar
frances into which she fell sometimes, and
she was brought to this city, where pri-
yate exhibition was given. 1t must be
promised that there is nothing remarkable
or unusual in the girls appearance or
manner She is a most respectable
Young woman Of about II years
Of age and her father and
mother are working people Of
excellent standing. After the company had
assembled she was given chair il the mid
de of the room, and, having sat in it for a
o11ood haV o7d i'm
medlately went into an hypnotic state The
things that she did when in this trance,
which lasted for fully half an hour, were
most extraordinary. Her hands began to
move and slate pencil was thrust into her
right hand and slate held. Upon this she
wrote rapidly, among other things snatch
of a Latin sentence. She then rose and
walked few yards and would have fallen
heavily to the ground had not her father
caught her. She became perfectly
rigid and apparently simulated
death in her dreams. Her
nostris sank in, her mouth became COM
pressed she was deathly pale, the movement
OF breathing was not precaptible, but q
physician who was present found the pulse
beating feebly. She resembled a corpse so
closely that several of the audience almost
held their breath in terror lest she might
really have passed away. From this con-
dition she passed into one Of apparent pain
and illness, coughing and gro lning. After
further remarkable manifestations she sud-
denly awoke. She betrayed no fatigue or
weakness as the effects Of her trance, and
vas entirely ignorant Of what she had done.
The girl is of limited education and writes
when in her normal condition certainly not
readily, nor could she possibly, when awake,
preach sermon Of any kind. 1t was
Clearly case Of somnam bulism,
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN sOMNAMBULIs1I
AND CATALBPSY
The somnambulist and the cetaleptic
must not be COMPOUNDED. In the lat er dis
ease animation is apparently suspended and
tle subject resembles q corpse, but conscious
ness remains to greater or less extent.
There is one CHASTITY story Of a woman who
went INTO cataleptic trance and was laid
cut for burial, being all the time conscious
OF what was being done, and it was this
species Of disease that Edgar Allen Poe
used as the foundation for his horrible
sketch on premature burial. The person
who is afflicted with talepsy ia without
power OF speech or motion.
Inc Somna.nbulist who walks in his sleen
EMeEely one variety of somnambulism. Ii
tle moro confirmed somnambulist that
gees INTO the frances. The strangest tbiny
VI all Is the recognized fact that a person
#Aen IN one of these frances undergoes an
exsitation Of the senses" as the scientists
nave nave expressed He does things and saws
tnings that he could not say or do il he were
awake In the case Of the Baltimore girl
JuS' described she preached and wrote as
que could never have done under normal
circumstances, but there are instances
IN record of still more ex-
GGsorolnary eXaltation OF power
Ule common, ignorant girl sang in
mutation Of Jenny Lind and sang beauti-
auy, and when awake had no notion of
music. Sir William Hamilton in his met
aplySics has cited cases even more astound-
.us' ne tells of one poor woman in France.
"Io' "hen she is in her frances, spoke an
ulAnoWn tongue, and when the sounds we're
.ypeated to her afterward she had not the
agntest col ception Of their meaning. In
preStigatlon proved the dialect to be old
;ol.eon' and it appeared that, in her early
.ulancy, she had had Breton peasant for a
y. Iulse' Not one word of the language had
S hue learnt. Had it lodged somewhere in
-. paoy brain-in some corner that only
asleep? -A-'o4ie0'9 "eio
GABRIELLE BoaIPARD's "ExALTATIoN.n
. In view Of this .''exaltation of the senses. -
S SS easy to see that Gabrielle Bompard
{ouil De able, when hypnotized, to go over
sbo sce4e OF her murder more correctly than
r nocould when she had simply her normal
tb 5S;ntso 1 to guide her. Her performance of
~ o. q lea1 also showed that she was subject
con vlese strange influences, and that her
bou ~ unquestionably had a power over
,bs t dependent OF her own will. But if