The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-02
AN INSTITUTE
OF HYPNOT|SM.
School Where Doctors Are
Taught to Put Patients
to Sleep.
MANY EAGER TO LEARN
The Mystery of Mental Sugges-
ton Applied to Thera-
peuticS.
JOURNEYS IN THE MIND.
A Boy in Stockton Who Saw a Woman
in joliet Writing
Letter.
JOURNEYS IN THE MIND.

line dYDnOLlC anu lnStlIuCo'
is the latest thing in San Francisco educa-
tional circles. 1t is conducted by ]. B.
Farley and E. ]. Pause, professors of the
hypnotic art, and has been open for the
reception of pupils less than two weeks.
That the interest in the mystery of mes
merism and hypnotism is very general is
manifested by the great mum Der who daily
knock at the doors of the institute.
Professor Farley is a pupil of Professor
Bernheim, acknowledged to be the head
and front of scientific hypnotism. With
Mr.. Pause he has travelled over a large
part of this country to finally locate per-
manently in this City.
1.-THE purpose of the institute" said Mr..
Pause yesterday, sis to teach hypnotism
on scientific lines for scientific uses. Our
pupils everywhere have come from the
ranks of physicians, dentists and minis
tiers, for IL is to that class alone that our
methods appeal.
Ministers? Oh, yes; the better the
hypnotist the more successful the preacher.
Successful preaching is hypnotism. The
Salvation Army works through the agency
of hypnotism, though its soldiers may not
know or realize it. Over at Beulah Park
we have recent reports of how men and
women were actually thrown into the
cataleptic state, standing with arms ex-
tended for hours, Just as Is done with the
sub iects of exhibition hypnotsts on the
stage. The successful salesman is a hvp-
notist in q small way. You ask him for
piece of blue cloth, and, having no blue,
he makes you believe you want brown.
You get home, away from his influence,
and you wonder how you were persuaded.
at is not fashionable any more not to
believe in hypnotism. Its wonders are of
too common knowledge. Men of science
recognize its uses and employ it more
and more. I DO not believe that men
should be permitted to practice hypno-
tlsm indiscriminately-on the stage for in
stance. 1t should be limited to thera-
peutic purposes.
"Do l know what hypnotism is2 No
body knows that. We know how 1t is
produced and something of its effects; we
do not know what it is any more than Mr..
Edison knows what electricity is.
There are good many false notions
abroad concerning hypnotlsm," continued
Mr.. Pause. I'm the first place it is an
error to suppose that to be hppnotized is
sign of weakness mentally. The contrary
is true. To be sure, man of strong will
can successfully resist the influence if he
desires. In fact, persons cannot be hyp-
Noticed against their will. They must at
least be negative to the influence if they
do not assent. But, on the other hand.
an insane or even a feeble-minded person
is most difficult to influence. 1t is neces-
sary to gain the attention of the subject
for the best and quickest results.
cat Stockton recently we experimental
considerably in the insane asylum. Many
of the attempts upon the insane we're
fruitless. One young girl, victim of cpl
lepsy, was brought under the influence
only with great difficulty, but after sew
eral treatments her trouble was much re-
lieved. She had had an average of ten
fits day. When we left there she had
but one day. No, a healthy person lends
himself to the influence more readily than
sick one !; an intelligent mind more read
lily than weak one. Professor Wilson at
Santa Cruz submitted himself to a test
and fell under the influence instantly.
The different stages or states of hypno-
tism2 Well, there is first merely the
lethargic state in which the brain is more
or less conscious. Then there is the cata-
leptic, where the muscles of the subject
become rigid. Then there is the active
somnambu listic state in which mental
suggestion is followed. 1t is in this state
that the surgeon may do his work with no
pain to the subject. The practitioner says
to the subject, for instance, You are now
enjoying the luxury of Turkish BATH
He may then cut the subjects leg off
while he the subject, is feeling the pleas
uTe of his bath. Then there is the clair
yoyant state in which the mind does won
derful and mysterious feats. You may be
a skeptic in the matter of clairvoyancy.
So once was L. have letter Just now
from q physician IN Stockton, pupil of
ours, who tells that through the clairvoy-
ant power he has learned things of great
value to him.
"An incident of his instruction will
illustrate the power. We threw little
newsboy into the clairvoyant state In our
rooms in this doctors presence and told
HI 70 foc He said fn he
4 want you to go with me to my old home
in Joliet, ILL., Very well, said the boy
I'm there The doctor asked him to de-
scribe the place, and he did perfectly.
Then the doctor said: Let us go into the
house. What do you see thereP The
boy described his family and said, Your
sister is sitting at a table writing letter
to you.' Can you see what she is writ
inp?' The boy read the letter so far as it
was written. Five days afterward the let
ter came to hand with the message as the
boy had read il. Such evidences of this
strange power is quite common TO practi-
TONERS.
1--WE had small boy in the clairvoyant
state here in the office the other eve ming
He led US, according to suggestion, to
many places. Finally we landed him-by
suggestion of course-on Market street, at
the corner of Third. l told him to look
up at the clock in the Chronicle building
and tell us what time it was. 1t is %
minutes of g. he said. We looked from
our window and saw that he had seen cor
rectly. Nc, as 1 have said, Lcannot un-
dertake to explain it? L know nothing of
the cause of the phenomenon do not
know. l only know the results that we
gained, not how they were gained. EN-
ployed for good, hypnotism is a great
boon in many ways, especially in surgery
and dentistry. The persons coming out
of hypnotic sleep find themselves re.
freshed more than from the natural
sleep. During that sleep they may have
had their teeth plugged or their Logs