The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1900-09-13
Hypnotisin I'm Paris.

VI NiHi'ihE WIN thO - - |
the Congress of Hypnotism, city |
within a city the Hospital la Sal
petripre. 1t Is | this, the largest
and most widely known asylum
for the insane in the world. I'm
mediately on our arrival one of the
physicians in charge
DR.. Voisin showed us two patients
who had been singularly benefited
by hypaotism. One was woman
of forty years of age who was at
tackled in 1889 with a walking
mania. She was thrown into a
hy pnotic condition and 1t was sug-
gested to her that when she awoke
she would no longer have desire
to walk, and she has remained two
years without recurrance of the
malady and without the necessity
of further hypnotic suggestion.
Then there was young girl, a
worker in a printing establishment
who was affected In q way that
made it impossible for her to con-
tinuc working. She also was cured
by hypnotism, and now works ten
hours day.
DR.. Voisin ana Or. Montreuil,
a director of the hospital, introduce
ed us to DIR. Raymond, the success
or of the illustrious Charcot. M.
Philippe, the chief of the laborat-
ory, showed and explained to US
the working looms, the solutions,
the instruments, the microscopic
preparations, and M. Cestan, the
chief of the clinic, conducted us
through the halls of cInematograp-
HE. We were also shown the
Charcot museum, where we saw
anatomical collections and doc u
ments and drawings. There was
also large portrait of Charcot,
painted to Tofano in 1881.
Then some one said; "WiIl we
not be permitted to see the pa
tients?" The reply was: "There
are truly too many of you. 1t
would be contrary to humanity.
II you were only small number
you would have glance at the in
sane patients, even the most viol-
ent of them" The rule here is
evidently not to 'tiouble those who
would be agitated by visit.
But we now enter another hall,
that of M. Raymond, and walk
through the rooms devoted to elec-
tricity. They are full of ingenious
apparatu, in which electricity re-
places simple hydropathic applian-
ces. Here we see very interest.
ing spectacle. M. Gestan showed
US the objects which had been dis.
covered by the means of the radio.
graph, disclosing morbid organs
LESSONS and deformities, and by
means of the cinematograph the
nervous movements and spasms
and hysteric crisis 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 o
my department" said the Doctor
"on account of an epidemic o
mumps, but I will show you all or
the left hand side, M. Voisin stop
ped at door and gave us some in
teresting explanations concerning
his treatment of children and o
adults of retarded development
The less intelligent are put unde
the charge of those who are more
intelligent, to each one, one or two
and by this system of exciting thei
responsibility, they finally under.
: stand little by little, aud they ar
greatly benefited. HydroDatheti
treatment is resorted to to produce
cleanliness and at the same tim
the strengthening of the muscles
1t is school, but it is also schoo
where the poor little undevelope,
ones, and even idiots and maniac
, are given degree of inst ructior
and they understand sometime.
, and some of them make consider
} able progress. M. Voisin and hi
assistants, both male and female
have indefatigable patience. The
begin by making each one prepar
his bed, and afterwards little b.
little, they are required to max
+ their underclothes. improvement
is the law in this island of misery
: progressive mprovement, sensibil
ity progressive and morally an,
l physically beneficient.
But we have not seen anythin
yet. We are now in large hal
occupied by children sitting down
some of them against the wall in
long row, while the others play 0
, talk or walk, some of them quite