Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-03-08
S2El1E3lsQNS
- s.elsf( f(--SD
-zts-.szzs zs-zszszs...s--
HYeNoTIsM.

ensa on Particular Persons.
Hypnotism. wh,ch il now the subject
Of much intelligent aud well directed
aodern research and Is also, unfortu
hateiy, the plaything of a class of wan.
iering stage performers. is tho lineal de-
ncendant Of many ancient beliefs
have made for myself number Of
counter experiments. Those which in
f.ituted consisted in eliminating pre-
ciseiy those elements which were sup
posed 10 be the efficient causes Of the
Iphenomena produced.
Thus the first and most efficient cause
Of this mesmeric, hypnotic, magnetic or
ARCHAEOLOGICAL condition Of the sub
jsct was generally assumed to be the
will power of the operator or some fi1id,
magnetic OF electrical, physical or other
emanating from the operator or from
some object he had touched, or which
lie had otherwise impregnateG OF in
vested with an influence OF fluid or
power proceeding from himself. The
first thing did was to ascertain whether
there was anything electrical or mag
netic in the phenomena. The most deli
cate electrical instruments showed that
there was not.
Ia the second class of control expert
inents | eliminated nay will in one set of
experiments, and in another set it in
direct opposition to the result to be OBJ
tained. First, did away with all
passes or gestures, and simply sat in
front Of my subjects in mental attitude
Of indifference and curiosity. did not
will them to sleep, but allowed them
TO look at me or at coin OF at silver
spoon strapped six inches In front of the
eye or at the tip of their own nose. The
same results were attained | went
further.
Staying at the well known country
house in Kent of distinguished banker
in this city, formerly member from
Greenwich had been called upon to
set to sleep and to arrest a continuous
barking cough of a young lady who was
staying in the house, and who was thus
i torment TO herself and her friends. |
sat her down in front of lighted can
die which | assured her | had pre-
yiously mesmerized. Presently her
cough ceased and she fell into pro-
found sleep, which lasted till noon of
The next day. No one had been able TO
awaken her, and found great difficulty
in doing so.
That night sat opposite to her at
large dinner party, and she presently be-
came drowsy, and had 70 be led from the
table, alleging, TO my great confusion,
that was again mesmeIizing her. She
baruapa M urtapatNfi1,1e 20 al
mesmeric influence that it was found ex-
pedient to take her to London, and
catching sight of me through car win
dow at the station she went into sleep
which lasted through the Journey and
recurred at intervals for several days af-
terward.
This was the history of candle sup
posed to 10 invested with mesmeric inhu-
ence, ana therefore acting Us though it
were. may add that when proceed.
ed to more active and direct interven-
ton Of my will, opposing sleep, the re-
suits were not affected negatively. SO
long as the person operated on believed
that my will was that she should sleep,
sleep followed. The most energetic
willing in my internal consciousness
failed TO prevent 1t, where the usual
physical methods of hypnotism by still
ness, repose or fixed gaze, OF the YER
bal order to sleep, were employed.
Thus, then, we have arrived at proof
that the condition produced in these
cases, by whatever term it may be desig-
mated, is always subjective, II is indie
pendent Of passes or gestures. 1t has no
relation TO any fluid enanating from the
operator. Ii has no relation to his will,
or TO any influence which he exercises
upon objects Distance does not affect
it, or nearness, or the intervention of
any conductors or nonconductors,
whether silk or glass or stone. or even
brick wall.
We can send the order TO sleep by tele-
phone or by telegraph. We can prac-
tically get the same results while elimi-
nating the operator, II we can contrive
TO influence the imagination or to affect
the physical condition of the subject by
any one of "A great number of oontriv-
ances, Ernest Hart in Nineteenth Cen
tury