The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-02-01
NILE. AGNES CHARC0T.
The Latest Sensation in the New
Field Of Hypnotic DEM
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Especial Correspondence OF The INDEPENDENT.
NEW York, Jan. 81 was talking this
morning with Mile. Agnes Charcot, whose
private exhibitions Of hypnotic power are
the latest things to set our tongues a buzz
zinp. She is niece to DR.. Charcot of the
Salpetriere, Paris. the greatest living
authority on hypnotism, but had an English
mother. She looks, accordingly, like a
Frenchvoman who has borrowed an Anglo
Saxon body, being tall and having q BRUSH
breadth of shoulders, but combining with
these a clear pallor of skin, = general trim-
ness and. brilliancy Of dark eyes and halr
which do not belong to perhdlous ALBION.
II YOU see her on the street in tailor gown
and Jacket. with great astrakhan collar com
inp M about her ears, you wonder was ever
a Londoner 70 chic or a Partisan possessed
of such calm, Rotten Row reserve.
In a parlor when she begins an expert
ment YOU lose all sense of the International
puzzle; warming to her work she Is french
utterly. The spectacle is weird.
The Young mani have not seen her
operate on q woman-is asked to sit, place
his right hand on his left wrist ana plant
both feet firmly on the floor. She stands
before him, a handsome figure with no OBJ
seryable popularity but a slight muscular
prominence of The eyebrows-somethlnR l
often notice in business women and otners
who are called upon to exercise acuteness
If nerception, She does not touch him nor
make passes before him, but looks steadily
at him, her arms at her sides. On the IN
slant a tremor passes through her. Tier
haad bends to meet his head. Her hands
nra clenched, It would seem the nails
must pierce the skin. Her arms culver.
Her whole body quivers with a mighty ten
aion She ia slightly crouched, as to make
a snrinp. Her ewes fasten themselves, on
those Other eyes. They send out white
iiohts. The woman is terribly alive. ohe
is putting into one moment the vital power
of a wear. It is a frightful lashlnR
compelling of the soul.
from the floor. His face comes forward to
meet her face, his eyes dilate wildly. then
they close, his head falls.
II ia only in bringing a subject out from
under hypnotic influence that Mile. Charcot
laws hands on him. Then she uses manlpu-
lations behind the ears. If a subject IS re-
fractory while regainlng consciousness she
cuffs his ears. Some OF her feats, a. nyP-
notizinp an entire stranger whose back IS
turned to her and who is sitting at the other
end Of the room, illustrate the dangerous
nature of the power we are meddllnR with:
She ia probably the strongest operator OF
the Extraordinarily enough seeing that she IS
the only woman-and there may be grams
of comfort in her assertion that she cannot
hypnotize q drunken person nor one VINO
has resolved not to be hypnotized. She
tells me abe has confidence in the future OF
hypnotism as a curative agent and as a
substitute of ansesthetics in surgical opera
tions. These things aside. she is our COM
ing sensation.