The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1909-12-31
Would You be Good,
And Well?
Then Be Hypnotized.

- the George Junior Repub-
ic says there isn't any such thing, but Bernard
bad boy from the police viewpoint.
He arrested for theft last July and placed on proba
ton. The other day Dr. Seigfried Block stated in court
that he had cured Bernard of his evil impulses.
81 have him under hypnotic control" said the doctor,
land he is industrious and honest instead of thrftess
and lazy"
Magistrate Nash inquired further and found plenty to
corroborate this story. ''Whatever is the of it,
said the Judge, ''he is at work and doing we'll in spite of
bad home surroundings
Probation Officer Mccain added: q don't care how
the doctor did it, but he has reformed that kid
All this may be contrary to our old notions of the life
long battle with Satan in heart but, after ALL it is
something like the reiterated persuasions the aborng
with sinners in old-fashioned reform and conversion
After all the thought that goodness may be made easy IS
not SO terrible.
We used to think of hypnotism as quackery and char
laanry and the upo-the platform style of fakery
But necessarily it isn't The best Of the regular doctors
coming to admit its proper III medical practice
Doctor Frederick Henry Gerrs professor of surgery of
Bowdoin college, says 1.-The training of the infant is
almost wholly suggestion and adds that with older
children suggestion only degree less powerful. And
then he tells of the value of hypnotsm in healing disease
eff the victim of functional disease be hypno
tied says he she has good chance OF getting relief
through suggestion.
AS most of our ailments are what is known as functional
anyone may see how important this is.
Dr. Gerrlsh goes on-not IN newspaper interview, but
in professional journa-o tell Of hypnotic cures within
his knowledge.
A man with the worst sort of trifacial neuralga-the
kind that drives people to sucdewas cured in week
who had had insomnia for 80 years. and could not
sleep but two three hours day, cured by one
hypnotic treatment. woman whose life made dark
and dreary by itabiIity given relief and
outlook the world by hypnotism of thirty
years afflicted with depression Of spirits made cheer
full man constutionaly afraid to travel water, was
cured. A teacher who timid that she could not
speak public without suffering great terror cured
OF tmdity and has become successful lecturer young
cured of obsession causing her to fear
assassination. A mddle-aged had nervous pros
tration eliminating in dreadful Indigestion She was
cured by hypnotsm, and became we'll and cheerful.
A STRONG HEALTHY TEN-YEAR OLD BOY WAS
A TRUANT, A LIAR AND "INCORRGIBIE." HE
WAS CURED BY HYPNOTISM AND BECAME TRUTH
Full AND A GOOD STUDENT.
An old lady cured of a long standing of
asthma. young enabled to avoid her beset-
ting ament of seasickness. young cured of
pabe of perversion. druggist reformed after
80 years fearful alcohol addiction.
Altogether it that if any drug any surgical meth
3D. any physical treatment not in general use could show
the promise which Dr. Gerrsh attests hypnosm to
have, the world would go wild over it.
Are negecting great moral as well a great heal
ing agency in failing to slider hypnotism seriously?
But Quacks and takers not the to hypnOtsm
human beings. No but a skilled and reputable
physician should be trusted by patient to to it.