The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-12-01

cite. the desire for habits that are in.
curious are removed. In regard to how
soon he can accomplish cure. IL Is nil
owing, he says. TO the temperament OF
the patient. Sometimes. he claims. he
can cure n slave In one or two treat
inents, and then again there are cases
which requlre from three 20 ten treat
ments. OF course. where u habit mas
been fixed on a man for several years,
he says. you would not expect II to b..
removed IN minute. Habits are OF
allow growth, but they become second
nature TO a man. Habits often lead 4
man 10 the grave.
Professor Brouyette said that OF all
the ilends he has ever had to treat the
morphine Rend Is the worst. In case
where n man has been using NOR
phine or opium in any form for any
length OF time Il requires the greatest
skill In Judgment and often weeks In
treatment before he can get them d.
yorced from the!r trouble. II Is a great
thing 10 remove ideas that trouble the
mind. ~
Hypnotsm. according TO Professor
Brouyette. Is thing that anybody can
practice, but not all with the same de.
gree OF success. He made study OF
the science under an advanced teacher
right here in Chicago. He says that
almost every person is able TO hyp-
noiize 4 man. or woman that Is amen
able: md then again there are othec
operators who have much more mag
netic power. SO far as he himself is
concerned, he Is able 20 put nine per-
sons out OF every ten under the hyp-
motto influence. This Is his record.
There Is nothing new in the bare idea
OF hypnotism. But never before has n
man In Chicago advertised that ne
would cure liquor, morphine. and to-
buceo habits by the application OF this
science. He claims 10 have cured
good many patients troubled with
these different complaints.
Professor Brouyettc tells OF one case
that Is very interesting. \ lady OF great
wealth, whose husband was one OF the
most prominent business men in this
city, had secretly become Il slave to the
morphine habit. She had tried all kinds
OF remedies and failed. She was In
despair. She went To Europe and Tis-
tied the different health resorts and
consulted the most famous physicians.
Then at last she heard OF this hyp-
notism and tried It. The result was that
inside OF fortnight she was cured,and
she has been free from this habit ever
since.
There are two cardinal principles in
my method OF treatment" said Profess
sor Brouyette. The first is. as have
already remarked. that while the pa
tIent u In a cataleptic state I remove
nil desire from the mind for the par
ticular form OF indulgence with which
or she has become afflicted. I do this
in an impressive and permanent way
that is only known 10 one who prac-
tIcsa hypnotism. In the next place,
when l bring the patient out of the cat
aleptic state. l carefully explain the
evil effects % the habit and leave ma
ture 10 build up the broken system.
Sometimes this can be done in a sin
Gle treatment, then again case may
require several treatments. But the
one fixed idea which l never allow 10
dpart from the patients mind is that
the desire Is gone, and gone to stay
forever. AS soon as nature has done
her part in restoring the dilapidated
functions there is no more danger OF
the patients returning to the habit
that there was before he had first be-
gun 20 indulge It"
Professor Brouyette has good many
funny experiences in removing rou-
blesome ideas from the minds of some
OF the persons who call upon him.
One day last week he received call
from a young woman who wanted to
get rid OF the idea that she was destin-
ed 20 become an old maid. After apply
ing the mssmeric force he had no dlf-
hculty In convincing her that her no.
ton was erroncous-tha. she would be
q happy bride at twenty-five and that
her husband would be rich man.
There was not happier young woman
in all Enslewood the next day. She was
SO elated that she told her friends
about the seance. and thus the secret
leaked out One treatment was sutti-
cient in her case.
Perhaps the most remarkable case
which has yet come within the young
hyprEist's experience Is that OF man
who lately consulted him in order 10
escape from the idea which had fixed
Itself on his mind that he was about 10
commit an unconscious murder. This
man was IN no way vicious, nor was
he an iaebriate, though 1t may be that
he was on the borderland OF insanity
over business troubles. At any rate he
became sleepless over the idea that he
was In danger of numbering fellow
man without knowing Il. Professor
Bruuyet;e still has this strange patient
in charge, and Is confident of affecting
Z cure.
TRUTH CRUSHED TO EARTH.