The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-21

with cigarettes and have no further
use for tobacco; it will nauseate you,
keep up your nervous symptoms, in
crease the irregular action of your
and aggravate the eye trouble it has
induced. 1t viii interfere with your
success in life" This was repeated
three times. The rewards of honesty,
moderation and devotion to employers
interests were then pictured, and the
patient was told TO wake up at q desig-
mated time, feeling encouraged, ambi-
tious and happy. These suggestions
are always fulfilled. A disgust for to-
baccO is produced, sometimes so strong
that after the first treatment the pa
tent will almost entirely forego its use.
One subject, William B., who had been
smoking twenty-five cigarettes a day,
dropped to four week after a single
sitting.
A thief IL years old, who developed
kleptomania at the age of II and had
been repeatedly arrested, begged to be
cured of his uncomfortable impulse to
steal. The suggestion was given to him
Tin the slang that he used and under
STOOD that he would no longer feel the
inclination to steal, and then that he
| would not steal, each being repeated
emphatically three times. He was then
told that he lived in a country where
an honest boy was sure to rise, and an
honorable career was suggested to him,
dependent on his respect for the prop
erty of other people. The final sugges-
ton was to lay aside his hangdog,
| guilty look, to put on a frank and
manly expression, and be afraid to look
no man in the eye. Words cannot eX-
| press my qualification at meetinr>~ny
| light-fingered young friend week later
with his head erect, an open counten-
ance, a smile of acknowledgment on his
| face, and at hearing him volunteer the
| information, Doctor. / have not had
| the least temptation to Swipe anything
| since last Sunday"
The sexual perversions that have
| been successfully treated are many
Ungovernahle abuses have been con-
trolled and patients have been obliqued
from sexual manias which no appeal to
self-respect. fear of physical or mental
ruin, conscience or reason, and which
no use of drugs had any effect on. Ami
NAL standards have been displaced from
some bows minds, and intellectual,
moral and spiritual ideals substituted
therefor. The thought of marriage with
an honorable woman, who would be in
sympathy with the patients aims and
share his life work, was made in the
case of one subject to take the place of
a mania for promiscuous concubinage-
from which / am confident bright
young life has been rescued. Worthy
were TO one young
man, assurance that he could master
the study he was engaged in and would
develop intellectually along the lines he
had chosen-with the result OF awaken
ing a superior interest in his books and
clothing him with power to overcome
the difficulties of higher arithmetic and
geometry. Although the cases so far
experimental with are few in number |
they are amply sufficient to establish |
the following facts:
Young persons of either sex under 20 |
are phenomenally susceptible to hyp- |
notisn. Boys addicted to the cigarette !
habit, to profanity. and the sexual vices
are durable by this means The i'm
pulse to steal is removable through |
hypnotism. Stammerers may be re-
lieved of their defect. High resolve may |
be made to take the place of sordid and
sensual aims, lofty ideals of low stand /
ards, mental brilliancy and interest of |
stupidity and Indifference.
l have no hesitation in adding to this |
list of durable molal diseases the gam
bling mania so marked among Ameri- /
can schoolboys, as well as the Arabs of +
the street, the growing lack of rever-
ence for superiors, habits of disobedi- /
ence. habits of lying, and general incor- !
rigibility. And l predict that scientific
experiments will shortly be made with
insane persons, for am convinced from
personal experience that hypnotic sug
gestion is adapted to the treatment of /
decisions. melancholia, mononiania and +
mild forms of insanity in general.
1t is argued by moralists that there is
no ethical victory on the part of the
patient who abandons an evil habit I'M
der the influence of hypnotic sugges-
ton. This is true. But l most unqual-
ifiedly assert that treatment of this
kind paves the way for the achievement
of ,,t arE x-inf xxbic l, ,.tt
wise would be impossible. And no one
will deny that society is the gamer,
whatever the ethical situation may be-
To accomplish the moral and spiritual
elevation of the human mind, it is es-
sential that the hypnotizer should be
person of pronounced religious princi-
pie and should love his neighbors
character as his own from the Chris
tian standpoint. He must see the god
like even in the depraved brother-the
better self, the reflection of the AL
image in the criminal and the
outcast. However obscure, however dis
torted, it must be his lofty purpose to
give definition to this image: and we
well know that as the image of the in
tellectual and the ethical divine as
sumes it's clear and beautiful proper
tions,. all sensual thought forms are
forced out of use. The climax of Chris
tan altruism is reached in this giving .
Of soul to save soul.
There is no mystery about hypnot-
SIN; nothing occult in it. The psychol-
)gy that explains it phenomena is as
we'll understood as the science that is /
applied to telegraphy and telephony;
md in disseminating the results of his
as given above, the author
If this paper is prompted solely by
wish to extend knowledge of hypnot-
SIN as a philanthropic instrumentality ]
lmong high-minded men and women
But hypnotism has it's limitations It
hould be looked upon seriously If not |
With reverence, and repressive legisla- |
ion is demanded in the United States !
or the protection of society from the Q
oathsome hypnotic displays of dime &
museums, from the disgusting parlor f
exhibitions so degrading to American t
manhood and womanhood. and so de- 6
ctructive of the subjects intellectual !
and from unprincipled n
who exercise their powers to C
,ain their own selfish ends or to de- {
rave their fellow men. In view of
UGH abuses, the employment of hyp- =
otism for any purpose should be re-
tricted by law. under the penalty of
eavy fine and protracted imprison-
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