The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-12-17

For example, he recently took as a
patient a young man who was addicted
to tobacco. This young man was in
the habit Of smoking $50 cigarettes in
day. After placing him in a chair
and waving his hands over him in mes
meric fashion, he told him to go to
sleep. Immediately the subject fell un-
der the influence OF the hypnotist, and
seemed to be under complete control.
The weirdness of the hypnotist now be-
came apparent. Nothing could be seen
but the glitter OF his big black eyes and
sinuous movements of his long, skele-
ton-like arms. Soon the patient was
apparently in a sound sleep.
The cigarette fiend was then asked
II he would Like to smoke. OF course
he would like to smoke. And the hyp-
notist handed him lead pencil, which
he smoked with manifestations of the
greatest enjoyment. Then the hyno-
tist passed his hands over his subjects
face, in the same mesmeric manner,
and said Wake up," which the young
man did without delay. He was again
put to sleep and told that smoking was
injurious, that he would no longer de-
sire to smoke after waking. This was
the mode of treatment.
In the next place a man with a big
bottle nose and strong whisky breath
was brought before the hypnotist. Up
on examination 1t appeared the bottle
nosed man had been drinking for
twenty-three years. Professor Brouy-
cite put him in the cataleptic state in
a few minutes, by a little waving Of
the hands, or what some ignorant peo-
pie call pow-wowing. Then he said,
Here is a glass of whisky" when as a
matter OF fact it 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 injurious to
your health; you must give it up; 1t is
killing you. When you wake up all
desire for 1t will be gone"
The subject was brought out OF his
trance. Thereupon the lecturer de-
scrbbed to his subject all the evils Of
intemperance and told him how to get
rid OF the trouble. Prof. Brouyette
claims equal powers in curing the to-
Ibacco habit But OF all the fiends he
has ever had to treat the morphine
fend Is the worst. In a case where
man has been using morphine or opium
In any form for any great length OF
time, 1t requires the greatest skill Ia
judgment and often weeks In treatment
before he can get them divorced from
their trouble. 1t is great thing to re-
move ideas that troDhe the mind.
Hypnotism, according to Professor
Brouyette, is thing that anybody can
practice, hut not all with the same de.
gree OF success. He made a study "
the science under an advanced teacher
light here in Chicago. He says that
almost every person is able to hypno-
tize man or woman that Is amenable;
and then again there are other opera
tors who have much more magnetic
power, So far as he himself is con-
cerned, he is able to put niue persons
out OF every ten under the hypnotic in
duence. This is his record.
There is nothing new In the bare
Idea of hypnotism. But never before
has a man in Chicago advertised that
he would cure liquor, morphine, and to-
bacco habits by the application OF this
science. He claims TO have cured a
good many patients troubled with these
different complaints.
WILL q. COOKE.