Morris tribune., 1902-05-17
VALUE OF HYPNOTIsM.
Professor Quackenbos Calls It
a Universal Panacea.
AID FOR MENTAL AND MORAL ILLS

Columbia University Lecturer, Who
Says He Has Treated 5000 Cases,
Claims That Thieves, Gamblers,
Drunkards, Liars and Others May
Be Readily Reformed.
Mental, moral and physical short
com1ngs are capable Of elimination by
hypno suggestion. Better natures can
be brought to the surface and conscious
sensitiveness substituted for moral
anasthesia. Young culprits and cast
Always can be redeemed, criminal in
clinations and desires removed and,
above all, generations yet unborn can
be Influenced for the better by this
same means.
Summed up, this was the general
conclusion reached the other night by
Professor John D. Quackenbos of Co.
lumbia university in an address be de-
livered before the members of the
Mems club and women guests at the
April meeting Of the organization, says
the New York Herald The meeting
was held in the rooms Of the club in
the LenoX Avenue Unitarian church in
New York, and the subject of Profess
or Quackenbos' address was "Hypno
Suggestion; Its Present Uses and Flu
ture Possibilities"
"The conclusions which have reach
ed said Professor QuackenbOs, "are
derived from some 5000 experiences
with hypnotized patients. These sub
jects sought my aid for almost every
conceivable malady, mental and moral,
some for ethico spiritual, many for
thus been brought into the closest
touch with the human soul, first OBJ
jectively and subsequently in the
realm Of subliminal life, where, prac-
tically liberated in the hypnotic SUM
Der from its ENHANCEMENT with per-
ishabIe body, it has been open to ap-
proach by the objective mind in which
it elected to confde, Dramatically abb
sorptive of creative stimulation from
that mind and lavish in dispensing to
the personality en- rapport the sudden
ly apprehended riches of it's own high
er spiritual nature.
Thus is effected a perfect agreement
between the law Of right and the intel
ligent creature, with which neither the
will of the operator nor the will of the
subject has aught to do. The popular
idea that suppOses subsection to the
will of another is a mistaken one, that
a person who has once been hypnotized
is thereafter an autOmaton in the hands
Of his suggestionist; that an actress
made adequate to the touches Of Bern
hardt is a soulless Trilby.
PERSONALLY 1 am incapable of doing
anything so contemplate. Ingenious
ethico-spiritual inspiration cannot be
mere lip work or rote lesson. 1t implies
a sincere belief in the suggestions Of
fered, control by lofty principles, an
eloquent and incistve manner born of
the courage of conviction. In short, it
is a TRANSMISSION of personality, accom-
panied with reciprocal uplift.
Ceases Of moral import successfully
treated by me may be classified under
the following heads: Cigarette addic-
ton and the disturbed mentality Of
nicotine poisoning, drink habit, morpho-
nomania, cocoaineism, kleptomania and
hopeless dishonesty, mania for gam
bling, willfulness, disobedience and ha-
bitual falsehood in children, suicidal
and homicidal manias and general NOR
al imbeciiity.
"Dipsomania is singularly amenable
to treatment by hypno suggestion. In
fact, some Of the popular cures are in
reality mere suggestion cures there be-
ing no specific virtue in the drugs adj
certainly not in the hypo-
dermatic injection Of Croton water and
of apomorphia.
"VieWs advanced here tonight regard
ing the outlook in the treatment Of dip
somania by suggestion are based upon
an experience with some hundred cases
over a period of three years.
Of these cases about 50 per cent have
been permanently cured.
'"Thieves DESTROYS Of reform and KEEP
especially if young or appre-
ciative of the seriousness Of their alb
normal propensity, may be radically
cured by hypno suggestion.
"Suggestions may further be used to
regulate fecundity and so control the
of the earth. Such promises
to be the development Of the twentieth
century, while hypno science seems to
be destined to demonstrate immortali-
ty on philosophical principles, to dis
cover the laws that govern telepathic
and perhaps to determine
the possibility or the impossibility Of
human communication with discarnate
souls-a question left open by the New
Testament writer's"