Daily Kennebec journal., 1911-03-15
INFLUENCE OF MIND ON BODY.
Remarkable Case of Judge Whose
Brain Proved His Murderer.

Brain Proved His Murderer
| can "oli make you! brain Your muir
| dor"r or Your rescuer'
| Here is startling problem which
| las bcen raised anew by recent oC-
| curr"nccs in Europe, which have in
| cIadDd rot nnlv the probability thaI
| aHte-su2eeStier can kill without the
| need II any specific disease or lrthHl
woaHoa. but that the nerves can h"
| stl ,Ci1cd back INTO health fHd thu lf'
can IL saved hy suggestive mettfnds,
even - II HaT be crushed out hN
| tl,,lI.
! Mtrt tan That, modern seiene" las
| e0nt.iVed Il wholly new and coldly ac
! earate meihHd fer measuring the kind
| Of brains W. have. 50 that 4 subject
On ~ automatically classed aiccoHi-
| ing t. his quality of intelligence. up
| Ia tie heights Of genius and down To
tire depths u arrant imbceiitN. 1t l.
= new sort of induisition. devised ny
| science To determine the natural en-
| iuNnsont Of the individual brain. 10
be submitted h if one has any doubts
rs t" his oWn capabilities, Ia be CUn-
l.strained to If some one else b" in
| vested With the authority Ia maxi
| sGch an examination under tn" Ian.
| The little mass Of gray matter
which has served throughout tIc cons
| to diferentiate man from the BEASTS
of I'll field. IS proving t. b. the most
| Fascinating mystery he las heen delT-
| ing into during the nsM century.
| Some of tie episodes ot the studies
| ag the br.lin and the nerves naVa been
| intensely tragic. In Warsaw recently
! the polish novelist. Eeymont. WIS 10
| he tried FER having writer. d short
| story that criticized the Government.
| \ local attorney. famed for til" su,-
cess with Which he predicts the 'ro-
suits Of trials long before the deeis-
| ions are rentle red. was asked Wllat
| would be the outcome Of ReNmont :
| case.
/ can't tell that" he answered. but
| | ,lo know that the Judge Whn tries
| him will die suddenly
| The prediction became generally
| known and such was the dreaG in
| which the local prophets predi ,tions
were held that every Judge endeaNor"d
20 avoid the nearing of the charges.
| on Judge Fabricius. who Mas Il close
| student Of the sup rnatural. the re-
| luctant duty fill. He acquitted Rey-
| mont. il is believed, in the hope of
| aVertihg the fate furetold NeNerthe-
| less. within an hour after he mad re
| turned to his nome from the court
| room he was found sitting in his char
| stone dead. Warsaw has now elevated
| the lawyer who foretold the miSior-
| tune t tn, heights of an intalli5le
| prophet: but science, wherever the
| strange tragedy has been discussed
! las unhesitatingly attributed Judge
| Fabricius's death to his minds fatal
influence over the body.
| Eyan before the discussion over the
| Warsaw case was rife, the famous
| DR.. Sismund Freud. of Vienna, was
| propounding his new science Of psy-
| cEoanaIysis. which has had VIA"
| circulation in the United States. HIS
| contention - that every person Is com
| noscd of a number of personalities
| successivcly submerged and forgotten
| with the advancing Years. Emotions,
| lisualls of Il sexual character. sup
pressed as FAR back as earlN chllH-
| hood. may continue to work rNll IN
| the mind and have the patient liter
| ally at war with himself, With nervous
| disorders ensuing that are to be re-
| ,i,y,d only by reawakening the oriSi"
| pal perSon;tlitv and diSSipatin@ lhr
| original emotion. DR.. Charles Is.
| Mills. the distinguished American au-
| thoritv= has been quoted AS admitting
| the theory To be one Of great interest.
| but of far less vital Importance thAn
| has been asserted. It's most promtS-
| ine Fields are those of neurasth"nia,
! a., ,x,I,a il, n SNSt
| peycroastheni3. the exhaustion of TIE
| mind: hystcria and melancholy.
! At Johns Hopkins University, IN
| IS4ltirlorc. the psNchiatric clinic mas
| undertaken IA series Of definite inVeSu-
| cations. designed to bring To bear upon
| Tive Freud theories the light of exact
| observation. by letting patients pass
| into sleep and then analyZlne the
| dreams that present themselves |"
| the CONSEQUENCES inNoluntarilN. Ihe
| dreams are supposed To he the nat
| urai Interpretation of the ideas re
pressed in the unknown and forgotten
personalities of the patient.
! Directly opposed to these studies o'
| dream consciousness are the methods
| of the new Ihrenology" devised hy
| John GRAY, of the British Anthropom-
| etricn Institute where the subject is
called upon to give the very quickest
| and liveiiest aid Of his alert intelli-
| gence, for the purpose of determining
| what kind of a brain he naturally
| owns.
A revolving mirror projects into The
eye of the subject two different colors
in rapid succession. and the apparatus
tells how numerous are the revolutions
required to make the, folors fuse into
steady light instead of succession
), OF fiickers All people differ as to the
! ..as