Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-04-07
CURATIVE POWER
Of SUGGESTION
uNPNOTISM EMPLOYED by RE
PIThBLE PHYSICIANS
Once CALLED WITCHCRAFT
Awakening Of Genius In children One
OF Most Valuable Uses Ia which
Idea Has Been Put,

Nina Garter Marburg, IN the Cleye-
land plain Dealer
Hypnotlsm, once looked upon Hs a
catchponny scheme Of the charletan
and quack Is now being employed by
reputable physicians IN the treatment
of all kinds Of diseases, physical as
well a. mental. and is coming 10 be
regarded as ono OF the most useful
adiuncts Of medical science,
In the medical departments of many
OF the most prominent universities,
and in the hospitals professors have
experimental with n In tho treat
ment Of alcoholism, insanity pneu-
monia, naemia and, In fact, almost
every Kind Of ailment, and II has been
used successfully Hs n substitute for
nnesthcsia, operations OF serious
nature having been performed under
it's influence.
Not 40 many years ago men and
women were burned alive for eXor-
cising power Of wtchcrnft by LAY
ing on hands" and healing the sick
and crippled These martyrs knew
themselves to be possessed OF some
phenomenal power Of mind or body,
but It was beyond them to give u
lucid explanation Of its meaning, so
they were burned.
But today science has explained all
this, and those who performed mar
velous feats in hypnotism-and witch
craft was often nothing more nor less
are praised as highly as the pioneers
OF the work condemned.
The study of hypnotlcs has been so
keenly pursued in the last few years
that wonderful things are being ac-
compllshcd by its eXponents. II is
reported that more than twenty
thousand cases were treated In New
York city alone during the last year.
Dr. John u. Quackenbos, professor
emeritus Of Columbia University,
thinks that the awakening OF genus
IN children one Of the most valuable
uses to which hypnotism has been
put In the present day.
Since the beginning Of the use Of
hypnotlsm, or, rather, since II has
been understood and scientifically
applied" he said. those who employ
II for its therapeutic powers have al
wavs known that certain disorders
Of the mind could be romodled, and
that certain physical troubles could
br allayod, hut only recently have we
beg >c to use II much as Svcngali did
his powers with Trlhy that Is, to
bring out the dormant qualities of
genius In person.
"But there are more wonderful
things being accomplished every day
than nu Mauricr ever thought Of.
Genius is being stimulated 10y hypnotic
treatment, but by no means are the
subjects under hypnotic control when
they are performing
~ have had many examples Of
singers who have come to me utterly
farrod out. tired to death, unable
10 sing with any degree Of sntisfac-
tion, and I have put them to sleep.
All students ~ psychology realize that
the mind works simultaneously In
two worlds the world ~ tho waking
HE and the world " the sleeping life.
when hypnutiscd the efforts Of the
waking mind cease. Int tho subjective
mind is left for the work OF the oper-
ator.
at is one Of the wonders and mys-
tores Of the mind how a person when
asleep. under hypnotic Influence,
hears. Rut he or she does, ana II is
IN this state that the appeal or sug-
reslon is made, not waverlng but
with pprfoct CoufI1pnCp II tx "A
dynamic appeal TO higher nature
that can only he reached when the
person IL asleep,