Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1896-11-19
Useful HYPNOTISM.
fariorming Painless Dental and
/ Surgical Operations.
7 Young Chicago Doctors
!" Treatment by Suggestion"

A young doctor in Chicago is max
ing good deal of money hypnotizing
people and then telling them it does
not hurt while he is pulling their
teeth. It is said that in good many
instances he actually makes them be-
heve it does not hurt Ono man re-
Gently had eight teeth extracted-bad,
stubborn teeth, with enlarged roots at
that-and when he came out of the
hypnotic trance he said he had felt no
pain whatever.
Others are not so fortunate and fail
to yield to the hypnotic influence.
Yet the number of people who come
for treatment has been on the increase
ever since the doctors hypnotic oper-
atlng-room was opened, SO that hyp-
nosia has come to be one of the
standard anaesthetics in Chicago dom
s.stry and surgery. For Dr. Parkyn.
as the enterprising young doctor is
called. Is physician and surgeon as
we'll as a dentist and hypnotist, and
he does not hesitate to put people
under hypnotic influence as a means
of deadening pain in delicate surgical
operations.
The Chicago School OF Psychology
:s what the establishment is called,
end there are a number of students
attending the school, studying hyp-
notism and the sp-ealled method Of
Treatment by suggestion. Clinics
are held daily, and many people at
tend them for treatment for all man
ner Of affections.
When patient comes d careful his
tory of his case Is taken. Then he is
sent to the operating-room, where he
lies fiat on his back in a big reclining
chair. The doctor then takes his
position beside the patient and begins
the hypnotizing process Holding his
riols. forefinger in front Of the sab-
ject's eyes, he requests him to look at
it anl to concentrate his mind on the
object to be desired-sleep. Then he
| moves his hand back and forth before
the patients eyes, chanting in sooth-
in
''Your eyes are beginning to water,
your eyellds are beginning to feel
heavy, you are beginning to feel
drowsy al over, your lids are closing,
you are going to sleep-let yourself
go now--so to sleep sonnd sound =
sound asieep!
By this time the patient is usually
/ III the hypnotlc state and ready to ac,
on the suggestion OF the operator.
The doctor does not try anyS expert
ments on his sick people AS In the
clinics abroad, nor does he insist on 6
deep degree of hvpaosp He merely
assures himself thaN the subjective
state is reached aud that the p"tlen,
is In n condition to receive busges
! tions Tucu if. for instance. the all
ment IS Il headache, the method OF
operation IS something AS follows:
Lightly resting his hand on ths
patien,a head. the physician Atirsi
commands attention ard then tells th.
subject the headache Is about 10 de
part. There Is no reason for tina
headache. lie argues. hence 1t will no
exist in future-In fact it Is already
gone. After celebrating and repeat
ing this statement many times, b.
commands the best Of health in ever,
respect. dealing with the symptom il
detail, auJ finally awakening th,
sleeper with q so::lv spoken word o
command Thi, method is followed
with all eases tina, do not need nctua
drugs or surgical treatment.
With children there nsuallv i
greater success than with grown peo
pie, for the reason that children hay
no preluuice. IL overcome; nor Will
them II there thu latent antsgonisn
often fonnd IN people wao really be
lieye IA hvpnotl>,a. Oae the ''recor'
cases" o; the School OF Psychology j
a verv delicate and dangerous ab3oull
nal snrgicai operation performed Oh 1
little child apparently wlthou, inflict
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