Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-18
l A WONDERFUL FORCE
AN UNKNOWN POWER THAT MAY
 REVoLUTIoNIzE OUR IDEAS.

Odyli Force-1ts Relation to Mesmerism,
 Magnetism and Hypnotism-An IntIma-
 tion of What This Force May Mean In
 Surgical Operations.
 In the history of civilization frequent Rllusion is made to an occult and weird force, seemingly possessed by few people of unusual temperamental devel- opment, called odylic force. This force was first systematically studied and taught as well as exhibited by Dr. Mes mer, Suabian, in l573. At later date Baird of England took mp the subject, and after long and patient study made a still further advance in its application to beneficent purposes, and Dr. Carpenter of London followed upthe study of what had already been named as hypnotism and made it to some extent useful in the cure of disease.
 Like electricity, the mcsmeric, mag netic, hypnotic or odylic force is still great mystery. Nobody knows its true origin or its essential character. They are both occult and known only by their phenomena. While electricity is being daily harnessed to the car of civilization and progress and compelled to serve mankind in n multitude of ways, mag netism or mesmerism has come more slowly into the service of man.
 The odylic force is vastly more subtle and elusive than the electric, and there fore yields far more tartly response to the question of science: What art thou? Whence ComcSt thou:" On account of its great power for evil as we'll as good many governments have forbidden its practice and promulgatiun, notably those of France and Germany. It has always been discountenanced by the church as a species of heresy and witch craft, and until about % wears ago it was practically under ban everywhcrc.
 Since the inductive method has been adopted for finding out natures most sacred secrets, she has begun tu whisper her occult mysteries into the souls uf her most iuquisitivc children. and We come to know more and more of her fine sur- Ccrics. For the most part this fine force has been devoted tn the isrutrsuuC and through its iuiluvucr men and women have been made guys and merry andrews instead of loving devutees and faithful serviturS.
 Yet many thoughtful men s.'c in this strange force subtitle power for good and are bctaking themselves to its study with devotion and purpose that seems surely bound to divorce meSmeriSm from | monkeyism and harness one more of the fine forces of nature t0 the triumphal car of science. JuGglery and iinguism fasten themselves upon two many uu,le veloped reSourCt'S of the race and have la be shaken off sometimes with the energy that piled the pillars of the temple upon the devoted head of Samson and his per secutors. But that energy Is now active ly at work clearing the hypnotic field of the philistines that have infested it.
 The people of our fair capital have been given a series of exhibitions of the marvellous powers and capacities of this | still too little known force. Dr. H. L. Flint of New York. an educated and conscientious physician and one of a family of great physicians, is giving nightly prutcrts of this mysterious force | in our midst. and while to the casual ob- server the humorous and ludicrous phases of the exhibitions are the attract | i've features. vet to many thoughtful minds there k a deep and profound sig nitiCanCe i'll it.
 Chemical anpsthGSia Is held tu bc the greatest discovery of all the ages, and yet here is subtle force that does fo- many peop,' not only all that Chloro- form can do i'll lulling pain and hanish- | ing horror and fear, but does more. for it can banish disease i'll at least some of its forms without putting the patient in peril. It can make its votary sing a happy rouudelay while the surgeon is severing his mangled members 10 save life. It can convert all pain into a beau tiful dream of happiness and eliminate the intiamnatory process that makes re l covery prohlematiC in so many cases. Among the odic phenomena produced | by Dr. Flint Is one which makes the blood run cold in all sensitive and sympathetic spectators. In his daughter. beautiful and delicate girl of l9. he induces cata- lepsy, state which so stimulates death that in India people in that condition arc buried for many days and then return tc active life as if they had only slept a night, and while in this condition. with every muscle in the body rigid and hard as sole leather, she k laid across two chairs placed under her head and feet and a large lilucStuu" rock weighing 5OC pounds is laid upoH her chest and abdn men. where it i, broken into fragments with d heavy sledgr hammer hv some powerful man who is selected hy and from the audience.
 From private demonstration uf thi: phenomenon made in my own office without any chance for collision VT de ception. and every possible opportunity l could desire to test the GenuincncsS q the demonstration, I can only say CIT moro than cve- profoundly imp-,sset | with the wonder and majesty of tho ere ative fiat that gave ys the odylic force Dr. II. w. Rcby in Kansas Farmer. How One Case Was Lost.
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