The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-12-18

ANGW 1OrA SUM-
At a meeting of the American Society
for Scientific Research. held last night al
Mrs. Griswold Bourne's. No. 1 West Sixty.
eighth street, John Duncan QuackenbOz
NJ. d., scinetlf1c hypnOtist put n q plea
Tor an hypnOuc institute in New York. He
would like 10 see 81. O00. 900 raised for a
permanent plant, and as much more. &c
keep IL running. The value Of such an IN.
sutute, he said would be twofold. In ths
first place, II would furnish means FOL
further study Of hynOtism. mental sug.
gestion and the little known kindred phe-
nomena- In the second place, IL could be
used as an agent for the cure OF disordereo
bodies and disOrdered minds.
To prove what can be done in this line
Dr. QuackenbOs described the details OF
dozens of cases known to his practice. By
awakening the subliminal mind and ap.
pealing to that pure "other soul, which
he says sleeps in the subcOnsoiousaess OF
every human being, he has cured obscure
diseases, strengthened weak wills, re-
minded incipient insanity, conquered the
desire for drink, gambling and theft re.
stored profilgates to respectability and in,
spired hating literary and musical genius
to action and success.
Among my patients" he said. have
been persons who could not cross the
without the most Notifying exhibitions 81
Self-cOnsciousness A patient was haunted
bv coarse word which she saw scrib-
bled on some fence. The word was eVeI
subject OF her waking thoughts and hei
dreams. and she was tortured Oy the feal
that she might loss self-cOutrOl, utter the
indecent expression in church or draWind
room and be Ostracized in consequence al
a vulgar harridsn."
These cases were cured. sometimes in
one treatment.
"A lady who was brought to me bv
New York physician was obsesSed with
a thought that the Deity is non cOmpOi
menus, and repeated at intervals What
a fool God is" Another applicant insisted
that she emitted the OdOr of spoiled cab.
bage, which could be detected even a
the other end Of a telephone wire 4
young fellow applied this autumn for the
cure of an irresistible impulse 70 throw
himself into the arms Of every corpu
lent woman he saw and be hushed of
20 sleep bV her. He had planned eScapG
by suicide. Such conditions yield 10 M
known human treatment except that bJ
suggestion.
BY the same process, actresses, must
clans and literary persons have beef
taught TO conquer doubt and sek-Con
seriousness and become great. An &C
tress who had been treated said she wal
conscious OF an internal elevation ana
expansion. Afy soul rushed for
ward In one great. Overmastering Response
TO some creative communication ant
she made hit.
A clarinet player who had difficulty
with his technique, especially his sigh
reading, was taken in hand AS a re-
suit. he got q new place as first clari.
net at double his former salary.
DR.. Quackenbos IS of the opinion thai
hypnotic suggestion may be employed al
childbirth TO save the lives Of mothers
The suggestive thought You must live
for your child would save many 4
woman at the critical time. It has beer
used in his own practice TO cure suck
diseases as diabetes. It will in future
he believes, be used BY trained nurses
for the DurDose Of carrying PATIENT
through crises. Not only that phvsi.
clans or the future viii use II TO shsps
the natures of the unborn THE char,
acter Of the forming child being de.