Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-03-22
,"ExTERloRIzED sENsIBILlTY."
Few Freaks of Hypnotism Served Up
in Paris.

III HHT1S.
A very puzzling young person is at
present exercising the curiosity OF
Palisians. She is known to fame a'
Mlle. Lima. Till recently she was an
artists model Then Colonel De
Rochas and NJ. Jules Bois discovered
her strange capabilities, and Mile.
Lima has since passed much of her
tims in hypnotic frances, state in
which she performs wonders that must
be seen to be believed. Her sponsors.
it will be we'll to remark, are men OF
high standing and acknowledged repu-
tation and not professional organizers
of raree shows. Colonel de Rochas is
at the head of the Ecole Polytech-
nique, government institution, and
one of the foremost educational estab-
lishments in France. NJ. Jules Bois is
among the most talented of the
younger school of French novelists
and an accepted authority on hypnot-
ism and kindred subjects.
Presented under these auspices,
Mile. Lima cannot be dismissed MS q
vulgar impostor. Her professions, at
any rate, deserve to be looked into.
They are wonderful enough. Mile.
Lima, for instance, is the best subject
Colonel dc Rocha has SO fur come
across for demonstrating the phenom-
,enon he terms the "exteriorization of
sensibility." When in a trance her
sensibility leaves her body and can be
localized by the operator in any object
he desires within few feet of her.
If this object be pricked or otherwise
manipulated, Mile. Lima experiences
exactly the same sensation as if the
act had been performed on her own
person, whereas her body while she is
in this state is wholly insensible. 1t
may be objected that tina sort ofthing
might be feigned. Colonel de Rochas,
however, vouches for several cases i'll
which deception would seem to be ont
of the question. On one occasion, for
example, the sensibility of Mile. Lima
had been transferred to Photographic
plate. Various experiments were
made, and then the subject was brought
back, as it was thought, to her normal
condition. After the lapse of con-
siderable time Mile. Lima was sud-
denly seized with shivering, and then
with violent sickness. 1t was found
that simultaneously with the appear
ance of these symptoms NJ. Euer, to
whom the Photographic plate belonged,
had immersed it, unknown to the rest
of the company and in dark room in
distant corner of the house, in o
chemical bath, and was developing it
in the usual way--a process which had
afflicted Mile. Lima with a sort of sea-
sickness.
In another curious set of expert
ments music played an important
part. 1t was found that when a piano
was played within hearing of Mile.
Lima while she was under the hypnotic
influence she adopted attitudes suit
able to the music played. In every
case the attitudes were so strikingly
beautiful and opposite as to excite the
admiration Of the operatic artists and
painters who had been invited to wit
ness the experiments. Here, again,
the suspicion might arise of decep-
ton, though there is no reason to be-
lieve that Mile. Lima has ever had
any musical or dramatic training. But
direct proof has been forthcoming Of
the genuineness OF the phenomena. A
Polish musical composer who wit
messed some of the experiments asked
to be allowed to apply test that
would satisfy him that Mile. Lima was
not merely going through perform
ance rehearsed beforehand. What he
did was to play Polish country dance
that has fallen even in Poland into
almost entire oblivion. To his aston
ishment Mile. Lima went through the
dance exactly as it ought to be per-
formed, though it was utterly impos-
sible that she could have learned the
proper gestures and measure.