Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-19
WATER FlLTERs-EwINa BROS.
the order Of my experiences at the hos

When | first regalned CONSCIOUSNESS
was unable to talk, or TO write, and my
mind was a blank. l was awful weak,
and it was only as l grew stronger tnat
| was enabled TO knit back the ravelled
sleave. as my people say, and IL gradual
" came to me. could recall how they
pulled my hair; how they forced me 10
walk up and down the floor, or, rather
dragged me around; how they threw ice
water on me; how they stuck pins IN
me; how they stuck needles N my Ieel'
how they applied the heat OF lamp 10
nv hands until the flesh was scorc-led'
how they applied arnica TO my nose
and injected ammonia under my skin,
and applied the electric battery, ana D. at
the soles of nv feet, and flashed electric
lights into my eyes, and did dozen
other things all to make me tWitcn and
move conyulsiyely.
Had | been in full possession Oh my
senses of feeling | think these expert
ments" would have put me TO steep lOI-
ever. -.
was without food for twenty-slX
DAYS. and an hourly record OF my PuIse
temDerature and respiration was TAKEN
which must be very interesting 10 Tue
d.stinguished doctors from all Oh tne
Nov York hospitals who, l am tolu'
came TO see me, pricked and stuck me-
and then disagreed as to what was Iu7
matter with me-
UNCONSCIOUS, BUT VERY ALERT
On the day tha. a professional hypno-
list came up and was going TO wake me
CIV suggestion" l was especially ail'e
70 INV surroundings, and ! remember
having laughed to myself al the idea
moi a suggestion from an outsider
would be of any avail, when l was Try
ing constantly to wake up by my own
suggestion.
When l was in this state | developed
a sense that is totally lacking now mat
I have recovered. Il was sort Of sense
of presence. a feeling with the nerves.
With NY eyes closed and in perfect dark
ness. l could follow, not as with the eye,
but still follow every movement OF those
around me.
For instance. when a doctor stood back
and raised a bucket OF ice water TO
throw upon NE, ! knew and followed
every movement, although there was no
vision of second sight. ! seemed TO just
take on with my nerves every move
men-.
I have since learned that many OF the
more violent experiments made upon
me were based on the suspicion that l
was only pretending that I was what
they called q maligner. All those ice
water plun~cs. how they did shock me!
And vet made no sign; and the electric
currents. which though. would tear me
apart.
DR.. Halpern seemed TO understand
nv ease. l remember well hearing him
one dav as he lectured TO some visiting
doctors and newspaper men, when he
said:
"1e is in a condition analogous 90
that of The HindC0 takir who hypnotizes
himself and is buried for month. In
tbis case IL is hys.eria He believes
that ne is paralyzad-that he cannot
move. His sense of feeling is gone; he
has hypnotized himself just as the Hin
doc does"
In this the doctor was mistaken. l
was thinking of other matters when my
sleeping fit came on.
The doctor wen, on to say that at the
ONSET of The case was in a catalep.ic
state. and that my mind was blank. In
This he was mistaken
HE knows VIVA. is going on about
hin, br- believes he cannot feel. He
feaIs the electricity however. He does
NOT fell the main OF Fl. but he feels It
move his bodv"
In tbis sta-emert the decor told 3a'--
half tbe truth. for az times I did feel
The main of the current.
Toward the end of my trouble there
was q constant effort 10 all my mind
with the idea that / was really able 10
move MY muscles, but tha. l was suffer
ing delusiou that ! could not. / do not
believe that they were right. because 7
was ever making mental struggle to.
move nv limbs. I believe that NV 9f-
efction mental - vou please had tie
corrse N run. and "a nv f9cul.ies we're
rc.aine5 INV nbysical control ra-,,rned
IT. - scr,e.b nine nc wonderf,l =, ~
--,ini,,ey ms. mind sirca 7 v5La nm 90
rb9re was in the ac- Of waking.
For n while I was as 4 Child having
M win oe INV own. II was undar. -i,s.s
oiroun7st91ces thqr y woman who claim
ed wonderful movers came and TOOL, mo
to her home. OF this 7 care TO say moth