The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-09-13
PARIS LETTER.
oor Regular Correspondent.

Ihad an opportunity last week of
.,;ng with the members of the Con-
', s,sss Of Hypnotism, city within a
g. ,be Hospital la Salpetriere. 1t
a'}' 'y think the largest and most widely
s0own asylum for the insane in the
A o,ld Immediately on our arrival
S ss Of the distinguished physicians in
W. 'SsrGe Dr. voisin showed us two patti
.""e ."'s who had been singularly benefit
~ I bv hypnotism. One was a woman
" ~ torty years of age who was attacked
u !" 600 with a walking mania. She
m,s o. thrown into a hypnotic condition
.od I il was suggested to her that when
'hs G ,woke she would no longer have
desire to walk, and she has remain
I'd two years without a recurrence OF
,he maady and without the necessity |
Of further hypnotic suggestion. Then
there was a young girl, a worker In
minting establishment who was affect
ed in a way that made it impossible
hr her to continue working. She
also was cured by hypnotism, and now
works ten hours a day.
DR.. Voisin and DIR. Montreuil, a
director of the hospital, introduced us
10 DR.. Raymond, the successor of the
;lnstrious Charcot. M. Philippe, the
chief of the laboratory, showed and
.ynlained to us the working rooms,
,be solutions, the instruments, the
microscopic preparations, and M.
Cestan, the chief of the clinic, con
duc,ed us through the halls of cine
matographie. We were also shown
the Charcot museum, where we saw
anatomical collections and documents
and drawings. There was also a large
portrait of Charcot, painted to Tofano
in 1881.
Then some one said: "Will we not
be permitted to see the patients9"
The reply was; "There was truly too
many of you. 1t would be contrary
to humanity. If you were only a
small number you would have a glance
at the insane patients, even the most
violent of them" The rule here is
evidently not to trouble those who
would be agitated by visit.
But we now enter another hall, that
ofM. Raymond, and walk through
the rooms devoted to electricity. They
are full of ingenious apparatus in
which electricity replaces simple hy-
dropathic appliances. Here we see a
very interesting spectacle. M. Cestan
showed US the objects which had ceen
discovered by the means of the radio
graph, disclosing morbid organs, leis'
ons and deformities, and by means Of
the cinematograph the nervous move
ments and spasms and hysteric crises
Of the patients were also shown
Then we arrived at another large
and open count. "You will not be
able to see the right hand side of my
department." said the Doctor, "on ac
count of an epidemic Of mumps, but
will show you all on the left hand side
M. Volsin stopped at door ane
gave US some interesting explanation
concerning his treatment of cnlldreI
and of adults Of retarted development
The less intelligent are put under tn
charge of those who are more intelll
gent, to each one, one or two, and b.
this system OF exciting their response
billty, they finally understand little b
little, and they are greatly benefited
Hydropathetic treatment is resorted t
10 produce cleanliness and at the sam
time the strengthening of the muscles
1t is a school, but it is also a schoo
where the poor little undevelope
ones, and even idiots and maniacs ar
given degree OF insti uction, and the
understand sometimes, and some
them make considerable progress. N
Voisln and his assistants, both ma
and female, have indefatigable pat
ence. They begin by making eac
one prepare his bed, and afterwart
little by little, they are required
make their underclothes. Improv
ment is the law in this island of mi
cry; progressive improvement, sellb
progressive and morally and physl
ally benehcient.
But We have not seen anything ye
We are now in large hall occupl'
by children sitting down, some
them against the wall in long 70
while the others play or talk or wal
some of them quite distance, b
always under the eye of guardian
1t is a sad picture but it Is difficult
see anything better arranged and b.
ter managed than that room OF ldi(
and manlacs, and DR.. Voisin expla
ed to the members of the Hypno
Congress the condition of certain
these unhappy children. We canr
HOW'S THIS ?-We offer @
hundred dollars reward for any case
catarrh that cannot be cured by Ha
Catarrh Cure.