Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-21
.ST0CKH0LM'S WIZARD.
Medical Miracles Of DR.. Wettenstrand
the Sensation Of Europe.
AN HOUR SPENT IN HIS OFFICE.
Hypnotic Cures of Dipsomania, Neptoma-
mia and Like Troubles.
STARTLING MESMERIC EXPERIMENTS
rcoRREspoNpENcr OF THE DISPATCH,

STOCKHOLM, Feb. DIR. o. g. Wet
tenstrand is the latest sensation in Stock
holm. On the second story of his residence
are two salons where the most startling
miracles of modern science take place.
They are performed daily, from 8 to 4
o'clock, and from 70 to 80 people wonder at
them and believe them only because they
are witnesses themselves
Footsteps are drowned in the heavy, red
dish-brown carpets, all the curtains are
drawn, throwing the room into profound
dusk. There is not picture on the walls,
not vase OF flowers to relieve the monotony.
Neither the ticking of clock nor the creak-
ing of door; not even buzzing fly disturbs
the deep silence. The furniture consists of
diversity Of sofas, lounges, divans, otto
mans and armchairs, each with q small
cushion for the head, and sitting or leaning
on them, when visited the doctor, were
ladies, gentlemen, and even a child, per-
fectly immovable, as if hewn from stone,
each occupying different position. No
movement of limb, not trembling eyelid
betrayed that they still belonged to the liv-
ing They did not snore nor sleep with the
mouth open.
Like the Dreamland of Homer.
They were really asleep as peacefully as
infants In their mothers arms. A rosy
hue singed their features like the echo of q
smile. We look uncertainty at the door,
posts to convince ourselves that they are
not ivory like those in the dreamland of
Homer. Silent as deathl For that assem-
bly, remain speechless in their elegant grave.
On one of these lounges lay slender
blonde with fine, delicate features and an
unnatural transparent skin. She looked
like pale fairy. On an ottoman weather.
beaten giant, dressed like hunter, had
fallen down and lay with his head thrown
back. A haggard, angular woman sat in one
corner in an arm chair, her arms dangling
to the ground, with head bowed on her
breast while deathly pallor overspread
her features A divan contained little
boy in a peculiar position as if he had rolled
down from height and met with concus-
sion of the brain. Behind screen an officer
in civil dress was visible on a footstool,
with red yibbon in his buttonhole, and a
pointed mustache, revealing him to be o
French croupier.
Suddenly the rustling of a silk dress was
heard, the door opened and an excited lady,
stout, red, and nearly devoid of eyebrows,
rushed in with violent contortions She
rushed along like steam engine threaten
ing to overturn two or three Of the sleepers
But she could not get past an ample divan
in her way. She sat down with evident
repugnance; she pressed her hands against
the dlvan In her efforts to rise, but it
seemed stoonger than herself. and very soon
picture of peace; the heated blush faded
from her face and she even seemed to di-
minish in size.
A gentleman in black, closely buttoned
coat had accompanied her to the threshold
where he stood following her with his
eyes. They were peculiar, calm, blue
eyes, half closed like those of a short
sighted person looking at distant object.
The Master Of the Mysteries
His oval face was colorless with dimple
In the chin and formerly blonde moustache,
which like his hair was tinged with grey.
This was Dr.. o. G. Wettenstrand, one of
the leading physicians Of Stockholm, a
serious, highly esteemed personality.
His works on Suggestive ePsychotherapy"
have been translated into several European
languages. He has already several follow
ers in his profession, among them DR..
William Vragossy, prominent surgeon in
England.
DR.. Wettenstrand was much sought after.
and entrusted with the most difficult cases
before curiosity, six years ago, directed bis
vacation trip to Nancy to witness with his
school Bernheim- m-Liebault-Liegnois. He
went there a sceptic, but returned q con-
yinced man. Under the impression Of the
successful cures witnessed in Nancy, he be-
gan to make trials himself, with such satis-
factory results that he adopted it as . pro-
fession. Since then patients from all parts
come to him and young doctors constantly
seek information on the subject.
He Was Curing Alcoholism.
He walked noisely over the carpet and
approached the lady who had just made her
entrance.
'Just look here" he began in soft
somewhat yelled tenor voice. sTook. she
is sleeping already. This robust fullblooded
woman is the wife of butcher. Her dis
ease is coholismus-whisky drinking. Her
bloated appearance is also caused BY the
pomicculus alcoholicus. She has had re-
excited she comes to me each
time the redness Of skin and bloatedness dis
appear like magic, her whole system under
going an Improvement. What a number Of
the screen you see an officer on fair way to
recovery. They are big drinkers in the army,
and such patients do not like to be seen
when under treatment"
Then he led me to the other sleepers ex-
the difficult cases. "The results |
ire often so sudden" continued the physi- |
,iad. Lately had q royalty under treat |
nent. For ten days she was SO changed as |
20 be unrecognizable. That giant In the |
aunt ter's costume is a morphinist, and so far |
cured that he neither feels a desire for NOR
ohine nor the well-known sensations which |
torment morphinists after sudden abstin- |
ence.
The boy was new patient. He had the |
habit of stealing money, was mischievous |
tepped up to him resolutely "Wake upli' |
The boy moved. Then he passed his hand |
wo or three times over the boys face and |
blew on it. The boy rose his face slightly |
lushed and turned to leave, with a firm step.
he doctor calling after him, Remember
Why you came here" as the patient would |
ave completely forgotten why he had been
ent there. The doctor expected to mako
new boy of him within fortnight.
All Sorts of Patients Waiting,
New patients were waiting for q consulta-
ion, consisting Of epileptics, drunkards,
norphinists and people afflicted with ery.
ipelas fixed ideas, abnormal actions of the
leart, or disturbances OF different functions
which cease with chrQnometric exactness
s soon as the patient is Influenced by hyp-
Iotism.
Suddenly he turned to French lady who
vas in the room.
"The left eye of the lady is quite insensf-
i've; touch it," and he took a knife from his
ocket, opened it and handed it to me.
With the pointed blade Repeatedly touched
he sclerotica of her lert eye, which did not
nove, while the other bIinked continually
uring the experiment.. As soon as the doc
OF said: "Now the right eye is insensitive
o touch" it happened at once.
Yet the marvels of Sturegaten go still
urther. There was a lady whom the doctor