The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-07-07

enon from a scientific point of view until
recently. DR.. Dujardin-Beaumetz saw at
the Saint Antoine hospital a woman
whose skin Redeemed ut the slightest con-
tact, but without any feeling of heat or ir-
ritation. With a pencil the doctor pro.
duced cabalistic inscriptions on her skin,
and so astonished was he that Dr. Mesnet's
attention was called to the subject, and
now dermography is baptized n science.
DR.. Mesnet says: "If we take well
sharpened pencil and write on the arms,
the shoulders or chest of this woman, we
see bright red line follow the pencil i'm
! mediately. This redness lasts from six
to eight hours"
Since the first experiments the doctors
have found many new subjects, some suf
fering from TO disease, others who are sui
ject to hysteria. Army doctors are now
performing experiments on their soldiers,
and it seems that many have skins SO i'm
questionable that inscriptions may be read
at distance Of fifty feet and during five
or six hours.
So far there is nothing incredible, for we
all know people whose skin will retain an
imprint or other mark for long time, but
what follows would seem like insanity If
these physicians were noted in their pro
rector of the Ecole Polytechnic, has also
been experimenting and has written his
views on hypnotism and gives these con.
clusions:
"To suffer one need not be touched; that
is, suffering may be produced by touching
some invisible ray emanating from ones
self" The sentence is rather difficult to
understand, but Colonel de Rochas illus
trates in this way:
The subject is magnetized; sensibilty
disappears from the surface Of the skin
but reappears farther away. If the sub
ject's flesh be pinched he feels nothing,
but II one pinches in space, perhaps sew
eral yards from the subject, he feels and
suffers. II at this distance one sways the
flame of lighted candle the subject has
the sensation of burning. Around his
| body there is n sensitive layer entirely
distinct from his skin, and this layer
crosses all substances. 1t can pass through
| walls, so that subject may be touched H.
| the room where he Is not and receive the
sensation in the room where he really is.
| But one element can conquer this unknown
| fluid and that element is water
AS the fluids stops at water, according
| to Colonel de Rochas, human sensibility
may be collected in glass, and this ex-
| pertinent he has tried with success. He
| placed his subject, a young woman, in
| contact with a glass of water, and through
out an entire evening this water retained
| its sensibility. II some one drank the
water, even If the subject were awake, the
woman suffered, and one witness placed
his finger in the water two hours after it
was vitalized, then held his damp finger
| near stove. The woman shrieked as
though her flesh were burning.
The doctors first mentioned have pur-
sued their Investigations along different
line and conclude that many persons are
30 sensitive that If they yield few times
to slight control, or to control in slight
matters, they become completely subject
to the will of the controller In short they
cease to exist as Independent human be
ings and become mere automatons. Law
! yers and magistrates cannot remain indif-
! ferent to experiments that place in a
new light the limis of penal responsible
| ity, while psychologists will be glad to pos
sess the key to mysteries Of the human soul
| The Society Of Hypnology will carefully
examine and compare the numerous in
stances presented and formulate princi-
| pies, so that hypnotism may become pos
tive and rational method of treatment.
| For the moment there is no need of theo-
retical explanations, but of precise and nu-
merous examples, observed with imparti-
| Ility, analyzed with skill and described
with the rigorous method Of modern scien-
tiic investigation.
Another important discovery is that if
| one hand of subject attracts as the other
repels, in a magnetic dynameter, the sub
| ject is in normal and healthful condition
If not, however, the PATIENTS exact condi-
tion may be measured by the difference
II the right hand attracts while the left
leaves the needle stationary, the patient is
| exhausted of nerve force-he is "nev-
rose" Thus, these doctors say, any physi-
clan can tell what treatment patient
should have, and his nerves may be per-
fectly regulated. Let's hope it's true
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