The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-26

DIR. QUACKENBOS TELLS or ITS
USES, BENEFITS md DANG EEs.

Miracles Cannot be Wrought by II
cal and Nervous, May be Treated VIII
Succcss-Evn Uses Made of II bl
Qunclss and Others.
Undoubtedly hypnotism is taking
definite and important place in medl
cal science. The profession is recogniz
ing more and more every year the bene-
ficient possibilities of hypnotism, anc
the Discrimination to acknowledge IN
debtedness to hypnotic principles Il
gradually becoming less pronounced.
The speaker was John D. Quackenbos
formerly adjunct professor of English
literature in Columbia University, ano
this statement was made in response tc
a question from q Sun reporter as to the
extent of the practice of hypnotlsm IN
modern medicine. During his professor
ship at Columbia, DR.. Quackenbos was
a practising physician, and since his
resignation from the faculty he has de-
voted all his time to his practice and to
the study of hypnotism, Of which he
has been an earnest advocate as an aid
to medical and surgical practice. Inc
study of subliminal consciousness evok-
ed from an individual personality by
| hypnotsm has received much attention
from him and he was prominently quot
ed in the newspapers laGt year for his
assertions that many hypnotic subjects
recalled various and widely diverse
! + pA
| has also declared that he knows of a
young woman, who, when hypnotized,
has the power of clalrvoyance, and can
describe accurately scenes hundreds or
miles away, to which she is transported
In spirit This utterance reused much
criticism among medical men
| when psychology was a less advance
ed and definite science" he continued
and the theory of duplex personality
was less commonly accepted reputable
physicians had a feeling that hypnotism
savored of charlatanism and was OUT
side the legitimate province of medi-
cine. Even to-day, many physicians dis
trust the psychological science of mental
suggestion and refue to accept its theo-
ries and it's results, but the progressive
and liberal elemtn In the profession Is
deeply interested In the exerments with
hypnotis as a healing agent, and many
of the most prominent physicians In the
world are making frequent use of men
tai suggestion in the treatment of cases.
Some of these doctors, yielding to a
public prejudice which ie merely the re-
suit of ignorance and is rapidly lessen
ing as the principles of psychology be-
come more widely known and under.
stood. refrain from admitting their in
debtedness to hypnotism and seem
ashamed to be found making use Of it,
but Others come out boldly announcing
their belief in the power and virtue of
the science.
Constant experiments are being made
by medical societies and by individuals,
and the results of these experiments
with the truths deducible from them are
absolutely prodigious. Neurologists find
auto and post-hypnotic suggestion par-
ticularly valuable in their special prov
ince, and in all nerve diseases hypno-
tism can be used with most beneficial
resplts, but its curative power isn't linn
tied to heurasthemia. Leaving the NOR
al possibilities of hypnotism out of the
question, and keeping strictly to thera-
peutics, experiment has proved and
medical journals have admitted that the
or automatic mind, which
lies back of the objective personality,
can directly influence many of the vital
the circulation, the digestive
functions, &c. That is. the automatic
mind can control the outgo of nervous
force, to vital organs. In addition to
this, hypnotic suggestion can put the
mind into cheerful optimistic attitude
toward the disease. The treatment is
usually supplemented with outo-suggest
ton, which might called self-hypno-
tism. An objective consciousness that
it will itself be swayed in turn by the
subjective consciousness which it has
impressed. Does that sound formidable?
IT. is ineligible enough if you once adj
NIT the duplex personality, and one
mthst soon admit, il he studies pyscholo-
gy. To use a commonplace illustration,
every merchant in the town is unwit- |
tingly availing himself Of the pheno-
mena of auto-suggestion. He puts in
his windows display calculatedto APP
peal to the senses. This display does |
appeal to the Senses to the objective |
which Immediately goes |
to work upon the subjective conscious
ness and impressed it with the desir-
ability of the article for which probably |
he person has no real need or use. Then |
comes the reflex influence, and the auto
matte or subjective mind persuades the |
objective consciousness to buy That's
4 very weak and unirnportant illustra-
ton, but apply the principle to more
serious things and you can see it's real
value. Faith in doctor or healer of
my kind inspires auto-suggeetion, and I
20 Is an important factor in the recovery
# health Christian science, faith cure
magnetic healing, and the rest of the
healing cults are ali based on this sci
ntific principles of auto-suggestion
Ind owe it all to their power. Auto
uggestion | consider the greatest mir
Gle of the mind, and its possibilities for
rood are simply tremendous. It's a
,ity that every one doesn't know its
'alue and cultivate it. The state Just
sleep at night is the best time
or experiment. Impress firmly upon
our subjective mind then that you will
Waken without headache and feeling
heerful, and the chances are that you
5ill do so. Repetition might after
hight of certain resolve, concerning
loral or mental or physical condition
ill do wonders toward bringing about |
he desired moral, mental or physical