The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-04
NEW HAVEN MORNING JOURNAL AND COURIER MONDAY NOVEMBER 4 so7

 hypnotist in his subject. Burns, blis- ters, congestions, bleeding from the nose or skin, have been repeatedly caused by hypnotic suggestion and contrary wise as Prof. James reports in his Psychology, the effects of burn and blister have been annulled by suggestion. False sensations can be produced and real sensations can he abolished. Legs and breasts may be amputated, children born, teeth ex- tracted with no other anaesthetic than the hypnotizer's assurance that no natn shall be felt. Similarly morbid pains may be annihilated, neuralgia, tooth ache, rheumatism cured. The sensa- ton of hunger has been thus abolished so that a patient took no nourishment for fourteen days" In his famous treatise on Suggestive Therapeutics. Prof. Bernheim writes: Since 1882 I have experimented with the suggestive method. * To-day it is daily used in my clinic; I practice it before my students; perhaps no day passes In which I do not show them some functional trouble, pain, paresis. un- easiness, insomnia, either moderated or instantly suppressed by suggestion. Two more facts should be noted Suggestions may be made during the hypnotic condition to take effect after the subject has awakened and thus permanent cures may be effected. And finally the operator and his subject may be so brought en rapport that the one may influence the other though long distances intervene. Hudson in 1 his Law of Psychic Phenomena" as cited by Dr. Bates in Christian Sci- ence and it's Problems" claims that he has treated many cases successfully in this way. Rheumatism, neuralgia, dyspepsia, sick headache, torpidity of the liver, bronchitis partial paralysis. have yielded to absent treatment" And finally. many of the effects of hypnotic suggestion may take place while the subject is in the waking state and is not aware of the nature of the quiet spell which is upon him.
 Tt Is usual for each school of so-
 
 and supreme rights and powers, and to discredit like claims on the part of all others. Mrs, Eddy has never been con- spicuously retiring In this regard She writes of certain rivals, Some silly publications, whose only correct or sal : it. from Science and Health" would set the world right on metaphysicel healing, like children drumming a piano. and pretending to teach music or criticise Mozart" The .discoverer" of Christian Science is unwilling to be classified with any contemporaries, for when in 1867 she began teaching her system of healing, her pupil was she declares, the very first student who was ever so instructed from the days of the apostles and the primitive church" I" Any suggestion therefore that her cures are wrought as multitudes of other like cures are wrought, through the influence on the body of a mind dominated by the thought of life and health, will be met by emphatic denial, and 1t will be insisted that only through the understanding of divine ly revealed "Ontoiogy" are her trats- cendent results obtained. Nevertheless the concensus of thoughtful opinion is coming to be that the cures of Eddyism in so far as they transcend the ordin- the sustaining effect of a tdls cheering ing faith, are due t69Athis mysterious law of suggestion which Is most striking ly illustrated in the phenomena of hyp- notism. Every cure that Christian Science has been able to effect has been paraIelled in this 'iiiysterious but truly scientific field of suggestive therapeu- tics. The methods of the Eddyite "Sci- tist" and the hypnotic scientist are much alike; both use suggestion, which the. Century dictionary defines as "the insinuation Of belief or impulse into nf ottH kxyo as by words or gestures, usually by emphatic declarations, also the impulse of trust which leeds to the effective ness of such incitement." This ele- ment of trust and self-ylelding is in Scientist may tell her patient that faith Is not necessary" her statement simply tends to remove apprehension, and Induce the very state of confidence and exDectaflcy which had been repre- sented, as non-essentiaL With the pa-- tent in a receptive and acquiescent If not an eagerly expectant mood, tho Christian Science healer proceeds with her treatment. The two are quietly alone; all disturbing minds and sug- gestions are excluded. Miss Anne liar wood of London who has published her experiment with this method of heal ing, thus describes her first treatment from Mrs. Jansen. The latter after bidding her patient to dismiss all other thought and to let the Fundamental principles of Christian Science dpene. trate deeply into the mind" took up a volume and in slow, nonotonotis, al- most grooming voice, Began to read, The reading had soothing effect up- on me, and when she saw that I was in Q quieter more receptive state of mind, she made me sit in a great arm chair heaped with cushions, and placing herself opposite me on the sofa. com. menced the treatment, Her eyes scent ed to grow deeper and more lustrous as watched her, and her face wore an expression which oddly recalled some lines from the Piper of Hame- lin'-- ta
 Smiling first little smile
 As if he knew what magic slept
 Tn his quiet pipe the while"
 For a moment I half fancied she wou1d hypnotize nc The readers of these ar- ticles vii! be astonished when I de- scribe the extreme simplicity of the method. It consists exclusively of thinking by the, healer supplemented by readings from Science and Health j. and occasional conversation, The healer sits in the room with the na- tlent and thinks, bringing her whole mind to bear on the case. From tine to time, when the stiffness tends to become oppressive, few passages from Mrs. Eddy's writings are read aloud with slow and earnest utterance, and