The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-21

natIant was told to wake up at desig-
mated time. feeling encouraged, ambitious
and happy These suggestions are al
WAYS fulfilled A disgust for tobacco IS
produced; sometimes so strong that alter
the first treatment the patient viii al
most entirely forego it's use. one SUD
iect, william b., who had been smoking
twenty-five cigarettes a day, dropped 10
four a week after a single sitting.
A thief II years old, who de-
veloped kleptomania at the age OF twelve
and had been repeatedly arrested, begged
to be cured Of his uncomfortable inn
pulse TO steal The suggestion was given
to him 0n the slang tnat he used ana
UNDERSTOOD that he would no longer feel
the inclination 10 STEAL and then that ne
would not steal, each being repeated en-
phatically three times. He was then told
that he lived in country where an hon-
est boy was sure to rise and an honor
able career was suggested to him depend
emit on his respect for the properly OF
other people The final suggestion was
to Law aside his hang-dog, guilty look, to
nut on frank and manly expression, ana
be afraid to look no man in the eye.
Words cannot express my qualification
at meeting my lIght-fingered young friend
a week later with his head erect, an open
countenance, a smile OF acknowledgment
on his face, and at hearing him volun-
teer the information. Doctor, l have not
had the least temptation to swipe any
thing since last Sunday"
The sexual perversions that have been
successfully treated are many. Ungovern-
able abuses have been controlled and pa
TENTS have been obllqued from sexual
manias which no appeal to self-respect,
fear Of physical or mental ruin, con-
a nj tuh
drugs had any effect on. Animal stand
ards have been displaced from some boys
minds, and intellectual, moral and spir-
itual 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 sub
iect to take the place of a mania for
promiscuous concubnage-from which
am confident bright young life has been
rescued. Worthy ambitions were suggest
ed by 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 awakening a superior interest in his
sooks and clothing him with power tc
overcome the difficulties of higher arith
metic and geometry. Although the case.
so far experimental with are few in mum
Der, they are amply sufficient to establish
| the following facts:
Young persons of either sex under 2
| are phenomenally susceptible to hypnot
| ism. Boys addicted TO the cigarette habit
| to profanity and the sexual vices are Gu
rable by this means. The impulse L
steal Is removable through hypnotism
| Stammerers may be relieved OF their de
/ feet High resolve may be made TO take
| the place Of sordid and sensual aims, lofty
| ideals of low standards, mental brllliancS
| and interest OF stupidity and indifference
| have no hesitation In adding 70 thi:
| list of durable moral diseases the gam
| bling mania, so marked among American
| schoolboys, as well as the Arabs of th'
street, the growing lack of reverence FOL
| superiors. habits of disobedience, habits o
| lying, and general incorrgibllity. And
| predict that scientific experiments vii
shortly be made with insane persons; fo
| 1 an convinced from personal experiences
that hypnotic suggestion is adapted e
the treatment OF delusions, melancholia
monomania and mild forms OF insanity il
| general.
1t Is argued by moralists that there i
| no ethical victory on the part Of the pa
| tient who abandons an evil habit unde
the influence of hypnotic suggestion. Thi
Is true, But J. most unqualihedly asser