The evening times., 1896-08-13
HYPN0TlSIA WORKS INJURY
Professer Gates Tells of lis
Mischievous Influence.
AFFECTS MIND AND BRAIN
Practice Should Be Disoouraged 7Ex-
scept in Isolated Cases and Where II
II Necessary for Physicians to Cure
Dtsease-Should Not Allow Expert
periments f@, exhibition Purposes.

CneVy CnaHe ard has constructed there
probably the most Dsrfect Laboratory or fts
kind in the wotlu
Some OF its departments are not quite
complete, but when they. are. Prof. Oates
Will lack nothing sthat science can give
him IN pursuing the researches into the
grent problem ofsiifes and Its development,
which have already given him SO distin,
guished q name In the scientific world.
42nhis isconversattnnProf.G Gntespronoanced
emphatically against hyppotism. He said:
Inorder that you should understand the
aiischieyons effects OF hypnotisrn you, must
remember thatthe human orga nismIs made
up Of cells and that each one OF these cells
Is, ID itself, a living creature.
These cells. these living creatures. COM
bine into groups OF cells and these groups
In their turn into larger groups among
which division of labor tniental activity
has taken place. Various ganglia conf
bine Into an organ and the ganglla of
various organs at length become united by
common nerve tract, and SO ON. each
representing a higher degree Of mind en-
bodinent.
I'm the ehunanorganism all lower groups
OF gangllonated organs are united into n
common person by the cerebral cartical ac-
'tivities, or. more properly speaking, by the
complexes OF organic and cosmic function
iDgslocalized therein.
THE MIND OF MAN.
-Lower gangilathanth thatof thecerebrum,
In the human individual, has its own tenta-
tive activities and memories necessary for
the performance OF its specific functions
In the economy of the organism, but its
own CONSCIOUSNESS and mental life con-
stitute the subconsciousj processes out of
which arise the consciousness OF waking
life.
The mind OF man is the result OF mul.
tltudinous mentations of which he never
becomes directly aware, and these menta-s
tions are the combined adaptative function
ings of m yriads or cells, and the functionIng
or each cell ia the product OF its own indI-
dividual activities, plus the interaction OF.
cosmos, of which that cell is functional
part.
Now, each of these cells has In itself the
capacity to adaptively respond to stimuli.
concentration or brooding of the facul
ties located in any particular isolated part
OF the brain, in any other manner than that
which Involves their normal refunctioning
In systematic order, In connection and as
sociative relation with other parts of the
brain, inevitably produces disease.
"Hypnotism ts specialized and limited
functIoning of a particular area or faculty
and it is always accompanied by an sab.
sence OF the normal amount of blood in the
other parts OF the brain, and an abnormal
excess nf blood in the active portions.
INJURIOUS TO THE BRAIN.
"It is for tire reason that the other
areas are quiescent that the hyppotio. pa
tieDt beiieyesthessnggssaong OF the hypno-
tizcr-tle portiohs nof the memory struc-
lures concerned in producing Judgrne At aud
reason by the tmeraction with the part
functionaiiy dominant for the time being
are rendered iBoperntiye by the absence Of
blood and metabnsic stimulus IN those
areas.
parts OF the brain mike, SO as TO leave no
areas fallow, and No as to unequally de.
yelop no areas. + Normal unentation must
dirigntr TO all pasos OF the brain with equal
ease, and as soon an one part OF the brain
becomes tunctio1ily active a much greater
number OF times than other parts of the
brain, disease Commences In the overused
parts.
'Hypnotism allows one partof the braia
to become functionally active at the ex-
pense OF other parts, causing q rsh Of
blood to the part used and an anaemic con-
ditioD in the other parts have demon
strated this coDclusively to my own mind
by hypnotizing chickens, rabbits and other
animals.
{. s.In every case where had repeated
hypDotism I found abnormal conditions.
1t was, however, q long time before I
had an opportunity to examine human
brain which had been frequently under
hypnotic influence At last the oppor-
tuDity arrived.
HYPNoTIsM PRODUCES DISEASE.
"A physician in Philadelphia had been,
experiencing hypnotically with a young
woman who proved an apt subject Sew
eral times he thought himself upon the
eve OF important discoveries, and in his
eagerness would hypnotic her a number
of, times a day. This continued for about
two months, when he accidenty lost his
subject; she fell out of a boat I'D was
drowned. s-.ssyr7--
II heard of 1t and secured the BRAIN
examined the seeing areas of the cortex OF
the cerebrum and found the tissues cungest-
ed, the arteries dilated and the veins ieng 9Th
ened and tortuons and lying within 4 sur
rounding bed of Goa gulated fluid which had
oozed from them.
"The examination confirmed my expert
emnts on animals and proved conciusiyely
that the practice of ofhypnotism producers dis
r~,rt,,~ -ty,<, LOT
portant part OF the brain. is-s.s.f sz5ss.S
at think the practice OF hypnotism should
betifsconra ged, except inisolatcd cases. and
where ID is resorted to, by . physician for
the purpose of curing Some trouble. No
person should allow himself to be subject
ed to hypnotic influence under any other
conditions, and under no circumstances
should anyone allow himself to- sbe shyp-
noticed with frequency"
SATURDAY. and Sunday eTripas to- the
Country.
ssIJdlll further notice thu a. & o. r, r.
Co. Will seli excalrsion. tickste. at. rate of
one fare for the round "trip, for regular
trains OF Saturday and, Sunday, to points
on the Metropolitan Branch and Main Line
a,stweSn washington, FTcdertcK HarperN
Fofry and Chariestown, and to points or
the Washington branch between Wash
fngton and Laurel. is...s-. -,.s. tal,tb.
Dr.. Heiser,
Lately MUNYON'S consulting Physician.