New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-15
ITALY AND SOUTH OF FRANCE
AEk0A IN BEAvTlFu y .
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L. Tuckey gives table OF OF alcoholism
wrought by hypnOtism in which he declares that
out OF twenty-five cases which were strongly In
herited. and where several members OF the
family suffered from chronic alcoholism. five were
completely cured; while out OF forty-three cases
where there such hereditary disposition ten
were completely cured
OF these cases there OF a who for
ten years had been a hard drinker and when do
nestle and business worries grew him the habit
threatened his life. He was induced to go with a
friend TO the practitioner. who. after working
him for some time. hypnOtizsd him and suggested
the evil and fatal effects that likely to
follow his continued use OF liquor. Following
eral days treatment the man sent away to tho
seashore. where all went well for days. The
desire seemed TO have left him completely. when
suddenly he received bad news from home. Despite
the objections he felt, he resOrted 10 his usual
solace under such conditions, and when he was
brought into the office of the physician he was on
the verge of apopIexy. Leeches were applied be-
hind the mans and restoratves were given
TO him. and the next day he was almost himself.
Then hypnotism was again tried During the first
treatment II had merely been suggested to him that
harm would follow his continued drinking; now hs
was told that beer. his favorits drink. would
uauseate him II he ventured to take it. Then he
was awakened and made 10 drink beer against his
will. with the prophesed result Again ne was
placed under hypnotic spell and told that beer
would always affect him in that manner. For some
time the treatment was continued with the result
that cure is said to have been accomplished
A TALENT TRANSMITTED.
In a number of recorded where subjects
were under hypnotic suggestion rather remarkabie
results have followed 1t is alleged Recently the
magazines told OF man who. though he had never
painted in his life. had begun to paint pictures
like those OF an artist who had just died. The
former could not for this. save that there
seemed TO have been a suggestion given 10 him
10 paint pictures. ard this he carried out The
nearest solution this unusual condition has been
hypnotisrn, a solution which one seems more In
cIined to accept when the story OF Professor
Woehner. OF G6ttinsen is narrated.
The professor had for many days been trying 10
write a Greek poem given subject; but
despite the fact that his brain was crowded with
the lore needed the gentle muse evaded him. In
desperation he went to expert hypnotisr and
told him Of the predlcament he was in. The hyp-
notst sent the Greek student into deep sleep,
then suggested to him to concentrate on the sub
iect he was to write about and in a comparatively
short time the poem composed. 10 the surprise
and satisfaction OF the professor on awakening.
one expert in hypnOtism says that twelve boys
afflicted with stammering were brought before him
for treatment. In two complete cure re-
suited. and in three cases there was so much gen.
eraI improvement thai little inconvenience re-
maIned. The others were not benefited. This fact
suggests that all treated by hypnotisn are
not cured do - advocates assert that 1t is a
sovereign anodyne for all diseases. Signal fall
ures have been made in its application. and yet
some equally remarkable cures have been wrought,
they say II the subject is yielding. there Is sell
dom case il is alleged, where nervous headache
cannot be cured. and medical records are cases
where even chronic headache has been pronounced
cured. In the dentists chair hypnotism 10 being
used more and more frequently. the patient placed
beneath its sway feeling pain IL is said. during
the operation In surgery the remarkable asser-
ton is made that the blood of a hypnotized person
ceases TO flow TO any perceptble extent where an
incison has been made by the surgeons knife.
and in Bellevue Hospital IL has been tried In
number OF cases by DIR. NJ. S. Gregory. with vary
ing success. Artists models are said TO be able
TO maintain for hours. under hypnotic control.
single pose which normally they could not main
tain for more than fifteen twenty minutes with
out becoming tired. In thu courtroom, where
slight use of hypnotsm has been made. practissrs
argue that. while il might be effective IL used
there. the subject might also simulate hypnotisn
and deceive both hypnotist and jury with the
suitant effect that harm instead OF good might
cur. Mankind is believed 10 be Just the verge
OF solving the possibilities that lie In hypnotsm.