The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1902-12-27
Cats and Women.
i Strange Hypnotic influence often
4 Exercised by the Former.

\ S "a Strange Hypnotic Influence Often
n Exercised by the Former.
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Cats like sserpents. have long been
known to possessstne powers of HYPNOTIC
dng their prey by e glance from their eyes.
Z The case OF Mrs. Elizabeth Cunningham,
who went to'Bellevue hospital, New York.
recenbfy, twice in one day, with her jaws
liked and rigid and her mouth open be-
eause}of the effect OF cats eyes upon her,
and medical authorities. = 'S1s7s
So wonderful is the caseiin point that 1t
Resembles In many respects the story OF
Du Maurier, in which poor Trilby was
Enypnotized by a glance at q Photographic t
her Svengali. :
and 4. sven at Tie men ton ON of The lWerd
l''cap' In her presence, causing her 90
show signs Of mental uneasiness.
/. Many times while walking peaceablyl
along the street she has been suddenly
confronted by a. stray cat and been
obliged to walk home speechless. .aars ..i !.
q To her a cat is O. serinns- matter. .YsYHM
Sne is not "a young, nervous girl. 3l
She has lived in this world Of sorrow
and of cats for the last forty EIGHT years, q
80 that her peculiar misfortune cannot
= na oily sifqeen years 3d.
she says. she first felt the hypnotic in $
Huence hidden in the cats eye. r..
II. pet kitten with which she was play
ing suddenly went mad in her arms. -
Wnen she threw it to the floor in fear,
the furry creature ram, writhing, splitting
a ana h ss1seehnn Through every room in
The impression made at that time upon
got it. = - !" 80 ~ - = y I
She leaped to a table, screaming. Z,
e Iaen her noise stGpged and she found
furiated animal, with her mouth open as
ar she were still shouting, but not a
Sound came from her lips. 49,. +
Her jaws were tightly wedged, andsshe
co 4iar neither open aus Nor shut them
but era ds1aHy the Phenomenon went away
or IT'S own accord. leaving her again in
her normal condition, NJ ~ ~ r.@2
But the fear Of a cat would not 70. "-
az Ever since she has been annoyed re-
peatedly by a recurrence of the malady.
8: II the cat goes about it's business ana
attention to the cat E -.
The moment the creature faces her or
the moment she comes face to face with
eyes she feels her jaws parting and shows
all the outward symptoms Of being at
ficted with tetanus. - &c.. - ~,
On. the. day that she was conveyed to
usual signs. @sz as,E =
tng h nero Of Edgar alan Poe's R 1,S
Cat she found a cat in her room.
OF course it threw her into a ''spelr'
and she was taken to the hospital in an
The cat was driven from the house.
In the afternoon when she returned on
foot. perfectly cured, to all intents and
she f9und pa "a 9s n cat
pital she went in short order -,
X, In an hour or so she was we'll again
and able to return home. + Ali they did
! at the hospital was Ito place a hand under,
her. open jaw and tell her that there
We're no cats In sight, and that she had
~ Yhcrsapea sher paws clicked back into
place. -. ~. * = ~
In speaking of the case, DR.. Halliwell
of the Bellevue hospital said that in his 1
opinion the woman had no signs of lock-
He declared that it was nothing more
jor less than an unusual manifestation of
ihysteria. - =, X!
On the other hand, Mrs. Cunningham
declares that she was hypnotized by the
Il always have a peculiar feeling when
ever l see one--a sort Of sinking sensa-
.ton 9t at the heaEt and des re e e, scream
staring eyes I almost swoon, and I cant
not run away. / seem to lose the USE
of my limbs, and am robbed Of all power
of action. e-..H
IT have never been hypnotized, but I
know that if I should be the sensation
"Why / open my mouth, and why
cannot close it again is as much a mys-
terry to me as it seems to be to every
body else
p n sh a4 the
He said that the woman was evidently
afflicted with the same mental hysteria
which formed the controlling influence in
the lives of the Rindoo priests, and So
called miracle workers.
MANY cases." said the doctor, ':are on
record where men have been able to con-
for a period, and have been able to pro-
duce some curious results
for the pero ODE of sixty
and another threw himself into a deep
sleep for thirty or. sixty days. ~ t ia i
"Auto-hypnotism is the name Of this
curious disease if it can be so called.
corcor ans c Who al attr rae much attention
by her long sleep, medical men are Of
the opinion that 1t was nothing else than
a form Of hysteria or 'auto-hypnotisnn.'
4 Hers is the only case on record where
the sleeep resulted in actual death. -
1.-THE autopsy showed that there was
nothing the matter with her. ii
Il ''In India you often hear of the fanatics !
who go about inf1icting terrible wounds
R fp or 5Hs as s form aa Of sacrilce
1.-THE amount Of suffering they appear
to endure owing to the serious mature of
their own self-inf1icted wounds and the
subsequent loss OF blood makes them an
object of respectful Xeneratton 70 their
but it is a well known fact that they
do not suffer and that they do mot feel |
the knife blades in their hesh.s y sG
Just IN the same way that q regul arly
shypnot1zed person cannot feel the pin that /
is thrust through his tongue. III
tAuto-hypnotism differs from hypnotism
only In the means of arriving at the same
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In the first place the subject hypno- /
tizes himself and In the second the SUBJ
ject Is hypnotized bySan outsider.
"Hysteria is at the bottom Of the sub!
jectfve hyInotisna, and the main feature:
of hysteria is the desire to do something |
to attract attention. a @ ~
"And they will do anything to secure |
that attention, as is evidenced by this
woman's return to the hospital twice in /
one day from the same cause. si.sts.E:l
IF they throw themselves into a sleep I
1T is not improbable that they sleep with |
one eye open so as to receive the benefit!
is ho11nd tn bring 4 sasl 5Etg7 ~ 55..#s !