Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-02

OF medical treatment could reach but one
of his most wonderful achievements was
the transformation of Joseph Rubins, the
music-mad boy genius of Brooklyn, from
a demon to a sWeet-temDered child.
For some time Joseph Rubins has been
a marvel to the medical fraternity of New
York. Although he has taken but few
lessons in music he has been able TO play
the violin like an angel He played en-
tlfely by ear out he played we'll. Be-
yond that he was little short of an idiot.
He was sullen and he had a violent tenn
per: he had delusions that he was being
pursued by rats and his sleep was
troubled by horrible dreams from which
he aWoke with screams of terror. At
nome he was disobedient and he was un-
able to find any children who would play
With him because of his inordinate desire
to torture them. He bit and scratched
ms brothers n sisters and every one
said that he ought to be sent to an asv-
lum. lie was expelled from schoo as an
lncorrigible and everywhere he was
Known as "Rubins' silly boy"
DIR. Quackenbos had his attention
drawn to the lad and he at once placed
nm under treatment. hat was but a
few weeks ago but today the boy has been
cured of all his bad traits. He plays the
violin as sWeetly as ever but he is now
obedient and kind. The children play
with him without fear and the teachers
at his school wonder at his reformation.
TX d ou LIE OOIu0IlanQ tlat divided
the sane from the Insane and he was
about to cross the line that would have
made of him a hopeless lunatic. With
a few treatments DR.. Quackerbos restor-
ed the missing something in his nature
and the future opens bright before him.
When hypnotism is able to accomplish
such feats it is not strange that medical
men should have decided to have intro
duced the science as one of the studies in
their colleges.
In speaking of his remarkable achieve
ments the other day DR.. O~uackenhos
said:
There is no mystery about what I am
doing; nothing occult in it. nothing at
with the purest Christian be-
lief and practice. I have no supernatural
gifts nor am | in league with the devil.
i look upon hypnotiSm with a revere
ence that is felt by very few. | regard it
as a great instrument for the moral and
elevation of mind. for the giving
definition to the intellectual and ethi-
cal divine in human character. And the
secret of success consists in the substi-
tuition of lofty and happy standards for
the unnatural, sinful impulses and be-
liefs that hold sway.
When | have succeeded in producing
hypnotic sleep l know that have been
given possession of the soul of nv patient
such a time as l may prescribe, to do
it what I will. The responsibility OF
the moments that follow is awful beyond
my power of mine to picture. I stand
in Il closer relation to that sleeping mind
han father or mother, teacher or preach
er. husband or wife can ever attain; and
it becomes my Christian manhood to act
as the vice-regent of the Almighty
in the use I make of this great power and
sacred opportunity.
Perhaps | talk too frankly but hypno-
science is as well understood today as
and in consenting to give the
result of my experiments l am actuated
solely by a desire to extend a knowledge
Of hypnotic suggestion as a philanthro-
pic instrumentality among noble minded
American men Inc women"