The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-21
bow Crime Gan Be Cured
Extraordinary Achievements of Professor John Duncan
QuackenbOS of Columbia University Modern Medi-
cine Can Not Only Alleviate Disease But
Can Stop Sn-RefOrm BY Men
tai Influence.
Copyright, 1899, by John Duncan

Copyright, 1899, by John Duncan
Quackenbos.)
DR.. John Duncan Quackenbos of CO.
lumbia university has cured
Stealing, by hypnotism.
Drunkenness, by hypnotism.
immortality, by hypnotism.
The cigaretts habit, by hypnotism.
Ever since the announcement was
made a few days ago that this phy-
stefan could overcome crime and vic
ious habits through suggestion, his
house and office have been in a state of
siege. Day and night appeal has been
made at his door by those who insist
that they have no strength to resist
thieving or strong drink
Young girls and little boys are
brought to this man by unhappy faith
erS and mothers, who have about lost
hope of seeing their sons and daugh-
teTs weakening slowly into cigarette
fiends. But to one and all DR.. Quacken-
hos has given the cheering counsel that
there is no crime or sin, no matter to
what degree of viciousness the victim
has fallen. but can be overcome by
hypnotic sleep, when high moral aims
are suggested to the patients mind.
1t was early in the winter just passed
that DR.. QuackenboS began his self
imposed task upon the young boys
who lived in the Newsboys' Home, New
York. One or two of the little fellows
at first rather tinidly presented them
selves to the doctor to be cured of the
excessive use of tobacco, and were
treated with such success by this ply
stefan that it was not long before doz-
ems of these small chaps were urging
the doctor to ens BILE them to do without
the cigarettes which they We're shown
to be so injurious to their strength
and lives.
While petty stealing has been cured
in many cases by DR.. Quackenbos
since he began to use suggestion for
the correction of crime among the
youthful offenders. the case in which
he takes the greatest pride, and upon
which he bases the theory that even
an habitual criminal may be reformed
is the case of a young fellow who for
five years had stolen right and left.
He had been arrested. and was in a
fair way TO spend a part of his life in
the state reformatory, when his case
was brought to, the attention of the
docto--
While this young man was not from
what can strictly be called the criminal
class. yet his associates were evil and
he declared that when the impulse vas
upon him he was powerless to resist
His parents We're of the working class,
and were too poor when he was a small
boy to indulge him in many of his
cravings, and he found that by steal
ing trivial articles he could sell them
and thus buy the things for which he
longed. So at the age of i he began
petty thieVing. He repeatedly was ar
rested, but the punishment inflicted he
declared in no way lessened his impulse
TO steal. Last winter while visiting
one of the police stations into which
he had been brought. / saw him and
offered to aid him. The thief declared
himself not only willing to have an
attempt made to cure his thieving
ways, but he insisted that he would
gladly be hypnotized time and time
again if there was the slightest chance
of his becoming honest.
AT the first opportunity which Of
fered, this fellow was put into the hyp-
motto state. He responded easily to the
power. -and.the suggestion. was given |
him that in the future he lead an hon.
est life and that the inclination to steal
and rob should no longer be in his
mind. That the thought might in no
way miscarry, it was given him in the |
parlance of the thief, and was en-
phatically repeated to his ear three !
times. But the doctor was not content
with this. He felt that the hang-dog !
air and guilty look upon the face of the |
patient was a reflection of the life |
which the young fellow wished left far |
behind. and the suggestion was given |
him that into his face should come |
manly, frank expression, and that he /
should not be afraid TO look any fellow I
being, high or low, rich or poor, in the |
eye
Dr. Quackenbos asserts that the eff /
feet of single treatment upon this