The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1908-01-22
HYPNO- SUGGESTION.
Used to Determine Desir-
ed Sex of Child.
PLAN BROUGHT A LITTLE SON
Science of Prenatal Hyp-
4 nOtiSm Used With Well
Defined Effect.

New York, Jan. 1S.-Prenatal hyp-
nosis as a factor in sex control has
just had remarkably successful dem
onstration in this city. The subject
of the experiment is Mrs. Fl. A. Fol-
gen, of No. 20 East Sixty-third street.
The operating psychist is Gustav A.
!. Gayer, of No. 131 West Sixty-third
street.
Following hypno-suggestion treat
ment, that lasted about a year, the
object of which was a male child. Mrs.
Folgen has become the mother of a
boy baby. He is healthy, well-formed,
weighs something more than ten
pounds and awakes the echoes of the
neighbOrhood with proofs of his sound
lungs. He is just the little creature
that his father wanted when he en-
gagged Dr. Gayer, who took the case
on a contingent fee. DR.. Gayer point
ed with pride to a boy and the bill
was paid. A noteworthy feature of
the scientific achievement, says the
psychist, is that the subject of the
experiment. had pinned her faith to a
daughter, while her husband, for reas-
ons not made known. desired a son.
Mrs. Folgen is "a years old. She
was placed under the treatment of
DR.. Gayer about three months before
the wedding. He gave her the first
prenatal hypno-suggestion on Janu-
airy 10, 1907. 1t was given in his lab
oratory III the presence Of several
Americans andEuropeans interested in
this branch of science. DR.. Gayer
this branch of science. DR.. Gayer de-
scribed the treatment to-day. He
said:
THE subject was put to sleep by
hypnotic power, which is no longer a
thing about which the enlightened
mind raisee any question. When she
was in a cataleptic state l began to
grope for hold on her subconscious-
ness. To get such hold is the most
difficult part of the task.
81 am expounding only an elemen-
tary principle when l say that to con-
troll the subconscious being is to con-
troll the whole being. 1t is the subcon-
seriousness, the alter ego, that makes
or mars life. You may, for want of
J clearer term, call it the dream that
\ is ever with us. The dream of to-day
is the reality of tomorrow. A wo-
man about to be married will have a
subconsciousness very busy on the
fact. Thus | found door to the part
of her mentality that l could shape
TO an end and finally control.
I'm due course, after the marriage,
I said to her one day when she was in
the cataleptic sleep: Anna, your chill
will be a boy There was resentment
at this, for boy was not the first
wish of her dawning motherhood. But
| had sounded the keynote, and
sounded it again and again until she,
too. chimed in. After that in her sub
consciousness the desire for boy was
as strong as her husbands.
"The suhconscious self rules the
physical phase of the human quantity
as we'll as the spiritual. 1t was not
long before | obtained material evil
dence OF this. Immediately preceding
the first hypno-suggestion treatment
of Mrs. Folgen blood was drawn from
1.-THE subject. Under test it indicated
$500, 900 red corpuscles. The red cor
pugcles IN the blood are its element of
virility. On the same date under hyp-
nosis blood test was made and 1t in
dictated an increase of 100000 red cor
puscles. Thereafter the increase was
steady. Blood tests were made from
time TO time until by repeated hypnot-
ic suggestion in line with the result
an average of 100000 red corpuscles
was reached, a condition maintained
flor several months preceding the birth
~ the boy"
Mrs. Folgen said it was true that at
first her wish was for a daughter, but
this changed as she continued under
the hypno-suggestion treatment to an
overwhelming desire for son.