The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-05
GREAT AID TO PHYSICIANS.
HYPNOTIsM BEING USED REGULAR
LY by MANY MEDICAL MEN.

Boston Doctor Says the Patient Need
Not Know of It's Use-FOund VaIu-
able in Cases of Hysterin, InSom-
mia and FeVer-SuggestiVe Thern-
peuttcS known as Curative
Agent Long Ago.
From the Boston Herald
One of the things everybody brags of is
that he cannot be hypnotized; he is TOO
strong minded" Some such statement as
that was made to an experienced Boston
physician last week and he smiled. 1t
was the quiet, deep, patient smile of the
scientist, wondering that such survlvals
of a prehistoric age still exist.
what rot"' he said. "Of course, he can
be hypnotized Everybody can Every
body is at times more or less hypnoii2ed.
Why don't some of his sort make state
ment that arsenic win not poison him?
It IS a far more probable thing"
Yes doctor" persisted the reporter,
but consciously. openly and intel.igeniy?
Does The modern practitioner use hypnosis
as a healing ageut?"
The question, once the informant was
assured of anonymity, opened up a field
probably unsupported by the average lay
world, and, indeed, not widely known in
the profession, at least not in its choicest
secrets. 1t is a difficult matter 10 get at
actual facts on the question for a variety
of reasons. some of which are obvious and
some not so plain. For one thing, there
is popular prejudice, very vital matter
to the working physician. A suspicion
that a doctor relied on hypnotism would
coujure up fears that would destroy
growing practice. The priest. the artist
or even the politician may have his vaga-
ries if he Will, out when ones stomach,
say, goes wrong the most tolerant and
Eighty of mankind demands cool, keen,
clear-eyed, hard common sense of his doc
tor The physician has ever been the
skeptic, clinging only to what he can
measure and weigh, and none is so insist
ent on this character in his doctor as the
devotee.
Doctors Avoid Publicity.
This is. perhaps the main reason why
the physician skilled in hypnosis avoids
publicity, and yet the spread of knowl-
edge or at least the belief in the material
and mechanical workings Of the mind, has
become SO general that q few reputable
doctors do not hesitate TO openly profess
t-.,,,-1,, No. ,ro ,,,,,, Of ,eIoti,dIv ;nda-
Non1an+ means NOT ontira1v, 1snandent at
ioast ON sl,aiy arofeesio,oI income r-here
80 ,,ot ,,,nr, tba1, tbroa or fonr in Pos-
9oo r,bo y.o,7tu'.e boyvayer an aven
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- o1II1 IN nb,,siniane7 ea+bor,nss
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| stlo1 a+d u,fl,o ,a7.9 Tho liD,.ta+io,s on,
ne 11se If mental eIreestion elI@eastt[,n
,.ar,o,,ties or h1,nnotisn1 as cir" is in
5;eeaa,7 ~, caIIaa ara d. ol,, allo,,Ia7
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tar,,,r ,,ot ,,1or5 tha, tbtrtt as The 70
| -, ~ ell,,1a,,t s.1+oa 49,, h,r..+ia,,,
| more or less. They are usually men well
! advanced in their profession, along in mid
| de age ana with established regulations
! which are beyond the chance OF damage
from popular prejudice They are men
! OF whom the average pauent would say
| that II ne used hypnolsin, the physician
! knew what ne was ABOUT. more oIten
| imam not however, the hypnosis would
be utterly uhhotlced by the patent. Inc
! case mas pee1 diagnosed as one Where
| hypnosis "ou4u SERVE anu II mas peeh re-
sorted TO Wllnout hesitation ana WITH
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