The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-12-18
USEFUL HYPNOTlSM.
Performing Painless Dental and
Surgical Operations
A Young Chicago Doctors
Treatment by Suggestion"

ing good deal Of money hypuotzing
people aud then telling them 10 does
not hurt while be is pulling their
teeth. IL Is said that In o. good many
instances he actually makes thom be-
lievo It does not hurt One mau re.
Gently had eight teeth oxtraetod-bad,
stubborn teeth, with enlarged roots at
that-and when be came ont Of the
hypnotic trance he said ho had felt no
pain whatever
Others are not 80 fortunate aud fail
10 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-
ating-room was opened, 80 that hyp-
nosia has come 10 be one Of the
standard anaesthotics in Chicago dem
tistry and surgery. For Dr. Parkyn,
as the enterprising young doctor is
called, is q physician and surgeon as
well as q 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
is what the establishment is called,
and there are q number Of students
attending the school studying hyp-
notism and the so-called method Of
treatment by suggestion" Clinics
are held daily, and many people at
tend them for treatment for all man
ner OF affections.
When a patient comes a careful his
tory OF his case is taken. Then he is
sent to the operating.room, where he
lies fat on Shack in a big reclining
chair. The doctor then takes his
position beside the patient and begins
the hypnotizing process Holding his
right forefnger in front OF the sub
iects eyes, he requests him to look at
it and 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 a sooth-
ing monotone;
your eyes are beginning to water,
your eyelids are beginning to feel
heavy, you are beginning to feel
drowsy all over, your lids are closing,
you are going to sleep-let yourself
go now-go to sleep sound-sound -
sound asleep"
BY this time the patient is usually
in the hypnotic state and ready to ac
on the suggestion OF the operator,
The doctor does not try any expert
ments on his sick people as in the
clinics abroad, nor does he insist on
deep degree of hypnosis. He merely
assures himself that the subiectiv,
state is reached and that the patien
is in condition to receive sugges
tions. Then if, for instance, the all
ment is headache, the method oil
. operation is something as follows:
} Lightly resting his hand on tn
9 patients head, the physician frs
Q commands attention and then tells tn
: subject the headache is about to de
: part. There is no reason for tina
: headache, he argues, hence it will no
I exist in future-in fact it is alread
9 gone. After celebrating and repeat
t ing this statement many times, h
t commands the best of health in ever
t respect, dealing with the symptoms i
t detail,' and finally awakening til
: sleeper with softly spoken word {
s command. This method is followe,
!, with all cases that do not need actu,
g drugs or surgical treatment
It With children there usually
# greater success than with grown pei
is pie, for the reason that children hay
n no prejunices TO overcome; nor wit
1t them is there the latent Antagonists
It often found in people who really b
q lieve in hypnotism. One of the "recoi
e cases" Of the School of Psychology
r very delicate and dangerous abdom
in nal surgical operation performed on
little child apparently without indic
ing the slightest pain.
IN They Smoked Bird Seed.