The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-12-07

The cat was driven from IN hous-.
IL III. afternoon. wreu She returned O.
fpor. perfectly CUre.l. g." all iTt"Uts and pTr-
pos-s. sh" founi another s,rar cat in II"
back yard. and back 70 the hnsii;al She
went in short order.
SIZE soon RECOVERED
:, In an hour or =" sh- T:ts vel T-a H
ana able to return h0rnr. All tire: oil at I'll
hospital Wa t" piaco = hand rrd-F her
omen JAZZ and tel! her that there T-r- ~"
| cats in sight. ami tilat she hat better b
calm.
| whereupor her iaws clicked back i'm
place.
In Speaking of the caye. Doctor H4Iiw"l
! Of the Bellevue Hospital sal! that. in III
opinion, the woman ha'i no s.sn> of Io'is-
! jaw
J He declared that it was nothing more IT
, lsss than an unusual manifestation Of hy>-
terra.
! On the other hand. Mrs. cunningham de
, cla'"s that she WAS hyIH";:z"t by the CIT
. u always have = peculiar feeling wheel
f.. ever / seen oIe-a sort uf SINKING s"a=d-
.; tion at the heart and 4 desire TO scream.
I IF the cat fixes NE with IFS big g'e. n.
! staring eyes / alm0S; sw0on. and / cannot
run away. | seem 10 lose the use Of HIy
limbs. and am rcbhrd OF all power OF aC-
ton.
Il hav" never been hypnotiz=i. bur I
know mat If | should b. the ssl.>ati"u
would be the same.
! Why. I open my mouth, and Why I can
not close il again i as much Il mystery
TO me ~ Il seems TO To- - everybody -iS~."
Doctor Georse i. Shraiy regarded the
/ question IN the IiSh; of 'auto-hypnotism.'
He said that The woman WAS evidently
| afflicted WIKI thu same mental hyster.I
which formed the controlling influence III
the lives If the iIiudoo priests. and -
| called miracle workers.
| Many cases said n. doctor. ARE an
| record where m=n have been abb. 20 con
! irol the involuntary muscles Of III body fo-
Il period. and have hsen able I" produ -
some curious results.
One man stopped The beating OF his ow2
heart for the period Of sixty SeconG". and
another threw himself into a deeI. sleep for
thirty or sixty Gays.
".Auto-hyInotisHs. Is the nanA oC This
| curious disease II i; can be 50 called.
In the ease of the Young girl. Nellie
corcorau.' who attracted much attention
| by her hong sleep. medical men are IF tire
| opinion that it was nothing else than a
| form OF hysteria Ur .auto-hypnCtism.
Hers is the only case on record where
| fine sleep resulted in actual death.
The autopsy showed that there was
| nothing tho matter with her.
IN India you often hear ot the fanatics
who go about inficting terrible wounds
upon their 0wn bodies az a sort OF worship
or as 4 form OF sacrifice.
The amount OF suffering they appear to
endure owing t. thu serious nature % their
self-inficted wounds and the subsequent
loss of blood, makes them an object OF re-
| spectfui veneratiOn to their feI!Ow-beings.
PATIENTS DO NOT SUFFER.
Pit It IS a weIl-known fac: that +hev
! do not suffer and that they do not feel the
! knife blades in their flesh.
Just In the same way that a regularly
| hypnnt!Zei person cannot feet the PIN that
Is thrust through his tongue.
"Auto-hypnotism differs from hypnotisn
only in the means OF arriving a. the same
end.
IN the first case the subject hypnotizes
himself and in the second the subject j.
hypnotized by an outsider.
I "Hvsteria Is at the bottom of the sub
~jective hypnotism. and tile main feature OF