Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-20
REMARKABLE cLAIRyoyANcE.
boy who Can See More Than xsRays
Disclose.

BOSTON, MASS, June 16.-F'urther out
into the vast untrodden realm of psy-
| chical knowledge than any one has gone
before, recently have passed DR.. Frank
Brett, OF South Braintree, Mass, and his
ll-year-old son. Alley Lionel.
The father is a physician whose prac-
tice and his connection with one or two
| Boston hospitals satisfy his ambition
| and provide a comfortable living for his
! FAMILY. The son. one of two, IL years
| old, is handsome boy, with all the nors
NAL, boyish, happy instincts.
| This boy. aided by the father. has per.
| formed feats which have astonished the
| eminent physicians connected with Har-
ward Medical College and the College OF
| Physicians and Surgeons OF this city.
The boy, under hypnosis, develops pow
| ers Of clairvOyance more startling than
any other yet revealed, and more absorb
ing 10 scientific men because brought OUT
| under conditions which admit OF not tha
| slightest shadow OF doubt as to their
| freedom from any faint of chariatanssm-
BEATS THE X-RAYS.
Hypnotized by the father. this remarks
able lad can see things which hitherto
have been revealed only 10 the material
optics Of the X-ray machine. Bat he
goes even further than the X-rays, for
while the rays point out in the skia-
graph, or, as seen through the fiuoros.
cope, only darkened outlines, the boy sees
all the colors. He can make out, while
in a hypnotic state all the bones of the
nYman body OF any person at whom ho
looks, no matter how snugly that person
may be cloG-St
In a recent exp-f.nsss,. performed with
Leslie j. Meacham one OF the most ex-
perienced hypnotists in the country ana
the author of a book on the subject, this
Brett boy described a peculiar formation
Of Mr. Meacham's elbow joint known
only TO Mr.. Meacham and DR.. Il. T. Keys
OF Cornell University Medical College, OF
New York, and only revealed TO them
last December by means OF an X-ray pic
ture.
The boy described the bone formations
I'm Mr.. Meacham's arm without ever hay.
ing seen MIR. Meacham before and with
out touching the arm. and while that
member was fully clothed.
SEES THE BRAIN FLASHES.
But even more wonderful than that was
another experiment conducted In the
presence OF DR.. John s. Flagg. a scientist
OF note Of this city, In which the boy
plainly saw and indicated 10 his aston
shed auditors the brain flashes OF the
sensory and motor nerves from the brain
centres 10 the arm and back again. Ana,
as il TO put the keystone into the arch OF
verincation OF the experiment, the boy
indicated by his fingers the very spots In
the cerebrum the origin places OF the
flashes In which scientists have agreed
are located the centres for controlling the
movements OF the upper extremities.
In other experiments the boy has cor
roborated other facts as 10 the subdivi-
sion OF the brain into specialized areas
which have only been established by
scientists after years and years OF ex-
periments on dumb animals, with dissec-
tons and vivisections without number.
The hole left In the stomach OF the sol
der Alexis ST. Martin. whereby physi-
clans were able TO study out the modern
theory OF digestion by repeated experl-
ments with ST. Martins own digestive
apparatus observed through the hole.
sinks into insignincance compared with
the value OF the revelations Of this boys
clairyoyance.