The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-29

tory. where the results could be noted most
scientifically. The experiments may be di-
Nided into three Casses-those curing i'll
sbriates. cigarette .iends and physical ILL
ness
Successful Experiments.
In all Il dozen patients have been oper-
ated upon during the last two months and
in no case has there been a failure
From the nature Of the experiments they
have been limited 10 the charitable tustiti!-
tions of the city thus far. During the COM
Ing fall they will be extended into a field
in which the Reverend Mr.. Cutten Is deep
ly Observation-Disclosures
He does not quite claim that a football
center rush can hyprotize his opponent.
football players do not have 10 rely o;,
hypnOtism to put their opponents TO sleep
What Mr.. Cutten is confident Of in his
application of hypnotisrn TO athletics is that
by Its aid he can keep ali the players cheer
ful. huoyant in spirits and prevent their go
ing stale.
In ether words. # can be made to take
the place of champagne and ale, and all
other stimulants, the use Of which parents
Of college ooys SO deeply deplole in the
training of athletes
BETTER Thnn Medicine.
10 show his method of conducting exper-
imentS, Reverend Mr.. Cutten gave 4 sitting
to-day before one or two friends. He op-
Grated upon Dennis Foley. a man 80 years
old. who came 20 the Organized Charities
six weeks aso, after spree which had
lnsed a month. Foley has drunk hard since
he was . and appeared to be hopeless
victim of alcoholism when Reverend Mr.
Cutten took charge of him.
Mr.. Cutten began by putting Foley under
the influence OF hypnotiSn. He then deiv-
cred to him a lecture on the evil effects Of
drink and tobacco, and told Foley that he
could not drink a glass of liquor which was
in his hand Foley tried to lift an ina GIN
AIRY glass TO his lips and failed He was
agitated at the thought OF being made to
drink again.
The Reverend Mr.. Cutten talked half an
hour to his subject on the horrors of drink
and then awoke him Foley came to his
senses and said:
II feel very much rested | could not take
a drop of liquor if my life depended on it.
! could not iorce II down my throat. feel
like new man under Mr.. Cutten's treat
ment and shall SO back 10 my home and my
job in few days
Thomas Duck. street peddler. known as
jim the Penman, was treated for delrium
tremens. He had been on a spree for three
weeks and had taken eight drinks of whisky
the day he applied for treatment.
His pulse was making liz strokes to the
minute. He had been unable to sleep for
four nights ard total collapse threatened
utes. When he awoke after half an hour $
hypnotic slumber his pulse was almost nor
NAL and his heart was quite regular. This
single treatment cured him of his threat
ered delrium tremens.
Cured or Smoking.
Edward Malley. l7-year-old boy. who
was trying to stop smoking between thirty
aud thirty-fve cigarettes a day. was treat
ed by the Reverend Mr.. Cutten. The sec
ond day after the treatment began he was
able TO get along with only twenty, the
third with only ten and the next day he
smoked only one. That was his last He
smoked that one on March 81.
The boy says that he has no desire to
take to smoking again. 1t was simply the
craving for cigarettes which troubled HIM
He did his best to stop, hu. his will-power
had been shattered.
Perhaps the most unique case the Rev
erend Mr.. Cutten has treated has been that
of Arthur Benedict. a parishioncr, 4, years
old. When he was years of age he fell
downstairs and injured the left side of his
head. The speech center of his brain was
affected and he had always been horrible
stutterer. The Reverend Mr.. Cutten treat
cd him four times.
During each hypnotic sleep Mr. Benedict
spoke without n lisp. and on being aroused!
from his sleep he was able to talk much
more fluently than before.
One of the several medical cures effected
was that Of Percy Butterflcld. superintenG
rnt of the Calvary Industrial Home He
was suffering from an aggravated case a..
neuralgia and was unable to work Mr.
Cutten put him to sleep for few minute es
and when he awoke the neuralgia had com
pletely vanished.