El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-03-07

II ECAUSE the people of this country
- work and live under high pres
49, sure, overtaXing their mental and
physical resources. many of the leading
MUSICIANS and scientists OF the United
States have abandoned drugs IS the
cure for the nervous wrecks presented
to them for treatment It is becoming
the fashion among many Of the most
brilliant practitioners to treat such
cases with neither medicine nor knife
The new remedy is thought, or the use
of suggestion with the aid of hypnOt-
ism. There are physicians in New York,
Washington and other large cities who
say to the exhausted nervous society
women: You do not need medicine. You
must teach your brain and your nerves
to rest You must receive into your
mind the compelling message that the
only thing which can help you is calm
and repose. We can give it to you, but
not by the use of medicines or drugs"
Benign Influence.
To the business man, who has gon1
under such pressure that he can con-
troll neither his nerves nor his BRAIN
they give the same advice HypnOtism
which was once regarded witch
craft and later rs an instrument only
for harm. has become benign influ-
ence on modern American life. a prac-
teal remedy for the distinctively Amer
tai troubles which follow. 1t has har-
monized many a shattered nervous sys-
TEN; it has saved countless men and
women from insane asylumS, and 1t has
been demonstrated as a reliable cure
of certain cases of drug and ciSaret
habits.
A Washington physician who is
known as one of the pioneers in the
movement to treat the ailments Of the
brain by the curative force of healthy
and normal mind, recently had young
man patient who was literally nervous
and physical wreck from the use of
cigarets. He told the patient that hyp-
motto suggestion was the only possible
cure for him. and the young man agreed
to try ii. For five different treatments
he was hypnotiZed, and there was con-
veyed to his receptive mind by the ply
stefan this one thought: You will never
want to smoke another cigaret; but. if
you do. 1t will make you feel deathly
sick, so sick that you will never try
TO smoke again" After the fifth treat
ment. the doctor declared the cigaret
victim cured. Two days went by with
out any craving for cigarets on the
young mans part. On the third day
he attempted to smoke one but was
seized with such violent nausea that
to this day he has never touched another
cigaret.
Simplicity of Cure
This is a serviceable example of the
simplicity of the cure which has been
advanced for a nation which is nerve
ridden. That such remedy was sorely
needed is shown by the fact that, while
the death rate from contagious dis
eases has dropped 40 percent since 1880.
the rate from kidney. heart and men
tai troubles has increased SO percent
The physicians say that the women Of
America, as well IS the men, live on
their nerves, because they do not stop
when their wearied bodies cry out for
rest. They see everybody else on the
go. and they do not believe that they |
can afford to be left out.
A New York physician is authority !
for the statement that the number of |
nervous cOllapSes and breakdowns |
among society women has grown to an |
almost incredible extent a Washing |
ton doctor says that, in addition to so
ciety leaders being broken in the fierce |
social competition. there are members |
OF congress and other government Off |
Gals who break under the strain. Both !
physicians agree that much of the ner- !
vous trouble is caused by the increase /
in drinking and smoking in what is |
known as high society,""
Cured OF Drink Habit.
The New Yorker on one occasion |
treated a society woman who was plain
ly the victim of intoxicating drink He
asked her If she drank to excess and !
she manifested indignant surprise that /
he should ask the question. Finally,
her explanation was that she drank /
nothing but absinthe; that she did this
only when she needed ii as a medicine:
that she frequently became exhausted
by her social duties. constant calls and !
late hours. and that absinthe was the
only tonic which kept her on her feet.
Upon his saying she must discontinue
the absinthe drinking, she professed her
utter inability to do so. After he had
treated her by hypnotic suggestion she
neither liked nor needed absinthe. She
left it alone absolutely and in three
months was again we'll and strong
Nervous BroRer.
This same doctor had the case of !
broker who had formed the habit Of
buttOning and unbuttoning the top but
ton of his coat. II was merely an evil
dence that his nervousness was so great
as to need an outward expression of
some kind, but it had grown to snch
an extent as to make him appear ridic-
ulous TO his friends and business asso-
GATES There was never a moment when
his hands were free. that he was not
outtonins and unbuttoning the coat. OF
course. when he became convinced that
be could not stop the habit. he at that
moment did lose control of the srua-
ton. 1t was then that he went 70 the
physician for hypnotic tTeatmen If
required only two treatments for him to
become convinced Nkhat the buttoning of
his coat was entirely ridiculous and ;
The conviction came IN
him by the doctors saying to him over
and over again while holding him in