The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-10
HYPNOTIZED BY MACHINE
HESMERIC SUGGESTIONS GIVEN BY
THE GRAPHOPHONE

Reproduction Of the Human Voice
Has the Same Effect as the Orig
iunI - Chicago Expert Makes
Talking Apparatus Induce Sleep
New Method Expected to Take
Place oF Anaesthetics In Surgery.
From the Chicago Chronicle
A new use has been discovered 70: the
graphophone DR.. Thomas Bassett Reyes a
Chicago practitioner has discovered that
hypnotic suggestions can be administered
by one of the little machines as. we'll as by
the most skilled Svengali in existence Fri
day evening the doctor gave an interesting
experiment in the administration of hyp-
noSis by the machine before a number Of
doctors and a reporter for the Sunday Chron-
icle
The experiment was made at DR.. Reyes
home, at Indiana avenue and Twenty-fourth
street. One OF the doctors patients. Morli is
Hochberg. sat down in an easy chair. On
table near by reposed a harmless-lookin
toy graphophone. The doctor pressed the
button and the machine began to talk.
Go TO sleep, go to sleep. go TO Sleep 1t
said. Relax your muscles. close your eyes
stretch out your limbs and be comfortable.
few go sO see Of EG to
tered in monotonus, drowsy tone. young
Hochberg's eyelids began to droop. After
four minutes he was entirely unconscious
The doctor. TO test his patients condition
stuck needles through his hands and tongue,
but the boy did not give evidence of sensa-
tion.
Finally the record in the machine was
changed to musical one. The patient re-
Eponded to the modulations of the music by
twltchlngs or the muscles. When he woke
he had not knowledge of what had been done
to him. Later on the same experiment was
tried on another subject, who positive
he could not be overcome by the persuasive
voice of the graphophone. The results in his
case were even more pronounced than in the
other.
DR.. Keyes. the inventor of the new method
OF inducing hypnotism, is a young physician.
who has been a general practitioner only
four years. He is a native of Albany, n. V
and was graduated from the Albany medical
college in 1894, after which he came to this
city, where his studies in hypnotism imme-
diately gained him celebrity among his pro-
fessonal brethren. For three years he has
held the chair of suggestive therapeutics in
the Harvey medical college.
About a week ago DIR. Reyes bought a
small graphOphone for the amusement of
himself and his family. After trying it few
times 1t occurred to him that the machine
might be used to repeat the hypnotic sugges-
tions which he himself had been accustomed
To reci.e.
Accordingly he made record such as was
used in the experiments Friday and tried it
on his little son. with the result that the boy
fell asleep. He then repeated his experiments
on others with uniform success He finally
went so far as to perform an operation. using
no aesthetics on the patient and making the
machine repeat its HOMOGENEOUS injunction.
Since then he has experimental before several
doctors in the neighborhood, but no public
test was given till Friday. Another public ex-
hibition will be given before the clinic at
the Harvey medical college, a week from to-
morrow.
DR. Keyes thinks that in time hypnotism
will suppant anaesthetics. The new adapta-
tion of the monograph and graphophone to
hypnOtism is expected to prove convenient
to surgeons In the course of a long and
tiresome operation the doctor will merely
keep his machine running 1t will also prove
Invaluable to patients troubled with insomnia.
When sleep refuses to come the sufferer has
merely to wind up the instrument and soon
the soporifc phrases issuing from the pho
nograph will send him into a grateful doze.