The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-05-10
and the unweIcome cat made one dart

and the unwelcome cat made one dart
out of the room.
The girl wa sthoroughly ashamed of
her weakness, but protested to the young
man that she was absolutely powerless.
Some instinct, she said-it might be some
subtle odor-told her that a cat was near.
and the moment she detected it she
straightway lost all self-possession.
one day not long ago several doubling
friends tried an experiment to see if what
she said was strictly true. They hid cat
in the rom just before the victim was
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to make an expected call.
Wen give her the mind cure" they
declared, gleefully.
There's cat in this room. know it. >
announced the girl the moment she got in.
Nonsense" laughed everybody, there
isn't a cat in the house.
She insisted and they denied it just
as stTenuously. She pleaded to be a.
lowed TO 60 Filled with the scientific
spirit of investigation. the young people
in the rom kept on denying the cats
presence until the girl became fairly
frantic.
In another minute the poor girl was
on the verge of Mysteries. and her friends
now thoroughly alarmed tried 70 hustle
the obnoxious cat out without her knowl-
edge. IT was too late. She got one
glimpse Of it, uttered a heart-rending
shrek. and fell in dead faint ON the
floor. It was seeral days before she was
herself again.
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mysterious physical antipathy? is it in
born? Can it be crushed out? VIII 1t
yield to treatment?
The Cunningham case is one or the
famous ones. and Bellevue physicians
spent much time over il. In childhood
DAYS Kate Cunningham had seen cat
go mad. The frenzied animal ran through
the rooms where she was living. over
turning everything it could. Il finally
died IN the middle of the floor IN Intense
agony. From that day until she appeared
for treatment at the hospital. grown
woman. Kate Cunningham was seized
with hysteria every time she saw black
cat
The disease" said Or. John r. Cuack-
enbos. formerly professor At Columbia.
a weli-known neurologist and authority
on hmypnetism. manifested itself by 4
displa cement OF her Jaw. 50 that she ap-
reared to have lock- jaw. Her case pug
zied all the physicians at Bellevue. until
a young surgeon finally, by some meth
cd Of hypnosis. convinced her that her
Jaw was not displaced. and by touching
il restored the rnaxiliiaTy muscles 10 their
normal function OF holding # in place"
DR. William H Park. head Of the bac-
terislegist laboratory at the Board Of
Hesith's hospital. foot OF East Sixteenth
street. is an suthoTitg on hydrophobia. as
well as on rabies in cats lie has OBJ
served many causes OF cat fear.
IT Is more pschyic complaint than =
physical one" sain he. 1t has its origin
in some peculiar notion which IS ineradi-
cable. The cure has more n do with
hypnosis than medicine IT is sort q
parapath. which means n sensing ~
things near az hand. rather than tele-
pathy. which implies distance"
There are some PHYSICIANS, many ~
them distinguished. who scout the idea
that a person who has an aHtipathy 10
cats-fhat creepy feeling which steals over
them when pussy Is near-can detect Its
presence except by by sight or hearing
While he believes in cat fear. DR.. Allan
McLane Hamilton. one OF New Yorks