The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-10

coverer and quack, OF brilliant intellect
ual powers and deficient moral quail
ties, he kept Europe in turmoil from
about ITO to 1895. The mere fact that
coined in his honor, have endured the
wear and tear of more than century,
bears witness to the power of the mans
personality.
The expressions animal magnetism
and personal magnetism We're his crea-
tions and are as much in vogue to-day
as in his luxurious parlors on the Place
Vendome. He seems to have known p.
7. Barnum's great principle that ''hu-
man nature loves to be humbugged and
will pay for it proportionately," for the
few scientific truths which he appre-
hepded were SO weighted down with
charlatanry and mummery of the idlest
kind as to escape the attention OF the
scientific world of his time.
Though denounced by such men as
Franklin, Lavoisier and Bailly, and in
after years neglected and forgotten by
the people whose idol he once WAS, he
did great work for the race despite
the dishonest surroundings under which
it was conducted, for, after all, modern
hypnotism is nothing more nor less than
mesrnerism. In creating the new name
bush.
Mesmer was followed by the notori-
Gus imposter Cagiiostro, By 'Eslon,
Marias and. greatest, the Marquis de
Puysegur. The last named had strong
scientific bent and early called atten-
ton to mesmeric features which there
tofore had been overlooked He was
undoubtedly the first to give careful
study to these phenomena, which, for
lack of better words, we sum up and
indicate by such clumsy terms as SOM
nam bulism, clairvoyance, clairaudience,
mind-reading, thought transference,
will control and the like.
Since his time comparatively little
new and original work has been done
in this field of research. but An immense
amount has been accomplished in study
ing details, ascertaining conditions and
classifying phenomena 1t will proba-
bly, surprise the reader to know that
over three hundred large volumes have
been written upon the subject by scien-
tific men of high standing, and that
the work goes steadily on. Among the
more eminent investigators may be
mentioned DIR. James Braid, DR.. Hack
Tuck and DIR. Ireland, of England; the
late DR.. George n. Beard, DIR. Grimes
and DR.. William F. Hammond. of tho
United States: Baron Won Reichenbach,
DIR. Preyer and Prof Weinhold. of Ger
many; Prof Hansen. of Denmark: DR..
Bjornstrom, of Sweden; Prof hzam,
DR. Broca, DIR. Liebault, Prof. Ricbet.
and last in point of time, bu. one of the
greatest in talent. Prof. Charcot, the
neurologist, o. France.
When a person is hypnotized he may
be in any one Of three states-thc cata-
leptic, the lethargic, or the sonuambu-
listic- In the first the body is immo-
bile and apparently dead, but the
muscular sense, vision, and especially
hearing, retain their powers in part, IL
no. in whole In the letbsrgic state
there Is complete insenSibility Of the
skin and external tissues The third.
or somnambulistic. Is the one made
familiar by lecturers and chariatans-
There is insensibility 70 pain, but q
ou;cxening Of the senses 20 high de-
gree and remarkable sharpening o.
the powers Of the mind
II is claimed by several leading hyp-
notizers OF Europe that the science can
be utilized as means of moral edues-
tion. DR.. Dursnd, Prof Li.hsuIt and
DR.. Berilloa are enthusiasts regarding
this idea and have appealed by speeeh
and writing for its official adoption By
the French go~ernment-P phiA