The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-12-02
sire to smoke after waking. This was

sire to smoke after waking. This was
the mode of treatment.
In the next place man with big
bottle nose and strong whisky breath
was brought before the hypnotist.
Upon examination it appeared the bot
tle-nosed man had been drinking twen-
ty-three years. Professor Brouyette
put him In the catatleptic state in a
few minutes, by little waving of the
hands, or what some ignorant people
call pow wowing. Then he said: Here
is glass of whisky when as mat
ter of fact 1t was nothing but a glass
of water. He drank the water with
as much relish as If it had been old
Kentucky whisky. Then the hypnotist
said: What I'm giving you is injuri-
Gus to your health; you must give 1t up:
it Is killing you. When you wake up
all desire for it will be gone.' The sub
ject was brought out of his trance.
ThereupOn the lecturer described to his
subject all the evils of intemperance
| and told him how to get rid of trouble.
| THE TOBACCO HABIT.
The hypnotist in the next case took a
young man who had been slave to
plug tobacco for fifteen years. He put
him under the hypnotic influence with
out the least difficulty. and then offered
him an ordinary business card. telling
him 1t was the finest brand of tobacco.
The patient Immediately began to bite
| and chew this card as If 1t had been
the finest tobacco in the world. linen
the hypnotist said: How do you like
| that?' That's fine tobacco.
"Well, said the hypnotist, I want
| to help you; l want to cure you OF the
tobacco habit: 1t is injuring you; it is
destroying your health. Now. want
to tell you that you don't want any
more tobacco; you don't desire 1t any
more, do you? You wouldn't take a
chew now II you could, would yOu?'
I'm this way, says Professor BrOuy-
cite, the desire for habits that are in
| furious are removed. In regard to how
| soon he can accomplish a cure, it Is
| all owing, he says, to the temperament
of the patient. Sometimes, he claims,
he can cure a slave in one or two treat
ments, and then again there are cases
which require from three to ten treat
ments. OF course. where a habit ihas
been fixed on a man for several years
| he says, you would not expect 1t to be
| removed In q minute. Habits are of
slow growth, but they become second
nature to a man. Habits often lead a
man the grave.
Professor Brouyette said that OF all
| the fiends he has ever had to treat the
morphine flend is the worst. In case
where q man has been using morphine
or opium In any form for any great
length Of time. 1t requires the greatest
skill In Judgment and often weeks In
treatment before he can get them d.
vorced from their trouble. 1t is a great
thing to remove ideas that trouble the
mind.
''Hypnotism, according to Professor
Brouyette, Is a thing that anybody car
practice, but not all with the same de.
gree of success. He made q study OF
the science under an advanced teacher
right here in Chicago. He says tina,
almost every person is able to hyp.
| notice man or woman that Is amen
amble; and then again there are Other
operators who have much more mag.
netic power. So far as he himself IL
concerned, he is able to put nine per.
sons out of every ten under the hyp.
motto influence. This is his record
There Is nothing new in the bare ides
of hypnotism. But never before has 9
man advertised that he would cure
liquor. morphine, and tobacco habit.
by the application of this science. H,
claims to have cured a good many pa
tients troubled with these different
complaints.
AN INTERESTING CASE.
Professor Erouyette tells of one
case that is very interesting. A lad!
of great wealth, whose husband wal
one OF the most prominent business
men In this city. had secretly becom,
slave to the morphine habit. Sh
had tried all kinds of remedies ant
fealed. She was in despair. She wen
to Europe and visited the different re
sorts and consulted the most famou.