Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-24
New York Minister to Make This Part of Regular
 Church Work
STEADY DRINKERS
 EASY TO MASTER
Dr. Batten Claims Backslid- CTS Are Few Among His
 Patients

WlLLIAMSTOWN,N N. J., May 23.- ! end Doctor Loring W. Batten. rector of St. Mark s church at 232 East Elev- enth street, told the members of his congregation last night that their flu ture donations will go into his new work of retaining drunkards by hypnotism Doctor aBtten said that he had been experimenting with psychoterapeutic treatment for inebriates for several years, and has at last evolved method which was infallible, with record of fifty cures. All that is necessary, he said, is for the patient with the drink habit to wish for cure, and the treat ment open to him in the rector s study will do the rest.
 Doctor Batten in outlining results on some of his fifty patients said that his cures were 100 per cent perfect, but he added that there was one backslider who took a night off to celebrate when he was first pronounced cured. After his spree he came back for a post grad uate course, however, and finally left in a drinkproof condition. Another of the fifty backslid three times and went on debauch covering period of two months, but he, too, repeated the hyp- so completely that he hated the sight of beer glass.
 The work of Doctor Batten with those whose will power had been broken down through drink began after visit he made some years ago to the Bowery Museum. He said:
 It is the steady thinker that is the easiest to cure. The man whose periods of debauchery are far apart is the diff cult patient and he most often becomes the backslider, when the lust for drink returns to his fighting strength.
 Doctor Batten said the chief enemy of his patients during the course of treatment was the fast that often, when they were able to resist two of three saloons on the way home, they were more than likely to meet a dozen or more, and that somewhere along be- tween the eighth and the twelfth the power of auto suggestion from the open doors would be strong enough to lure them in.
 "A woman telephoned me yesterday and told me excitedly that her hus- mand had come home dead drunk and they had him tucked away in bed. She wanted me to come right over and hyp- notize him before he could wake up, and cure him.
 "Now, I can't do that, nor could I help man whose fellow-clubmen tel ing around in the club, was told over the telephone. They had him backed into corner and were keeping him there till I could rush over, as they hoped to lead him through a trance into sobriety.
 No, that s not the way I do it. I do not deeply hypnotize my patients. I procure lightly hypnotic state and then force upon the patient mental sug- gestions against the evil. The usual course is from six to twelve lessons, and the only reason for hypnosis is that in that state the mind is more sub- ject to mandatory suggestions.
 HI never let patient touch a drop after start. Many people say that an old inebriate will go to pieces if drink is shut off, but in the case of girl whom I cured I stopped her off short, and after three days without drink she looked and acted and seemed in very truth a re-created woman. Her youth ful beauty returned to her, her mind resumed its former keeness and she did not show any i'll effects of the sudden shutting off of her drink"
 Doctor Batten said to reporters after completing his sermon that he had kept the work out of the newspapers up to now on account of its experimental na- ture, but that from now on he wished it to have publicity, as that might at tract more patients to his study. He said the treatment would be given with out cost as a part of the church exten- sion work.