The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1913-12-04
MAKES PATIENTS !
OBEY THEIR SOULS
Scientist StaTi.2s AaOh3l So
ciety With FSjCIlIC CUBS
demon RUN" Gets A SLAP
Dr.. Quackenaos Declares He Was abb
by Hypnotic Suggestion to curS
Chronic Drunkards Over Night.

Philadelphia, Dec A sensation
such as has never before been felt by
scientific gathering here was sprung
at the opening session of the An1erk
can Society for the Study of Aleohol
and Other Narcotics, by John p
Quackenbos, A. NJ, M. D., of Ne1
York, who summarized his life worh
in treatise which approached t1E
definition of the human soul, questipE
ed by inference all usual methods
medical practice and admitted the &s
istence of a dormant consciousness q
undreamed force, scope and potency
His treatise. while designed primnA
lily to describe the cure of chronfk
alcoholism through hypnotic inf1uenlb
developed Unexpectedly into an al 4
gether startling exposition Of &
lengths to which science has prog
ed in it's gropings for a sign I
subconscious life that usually isS b
sumed to wake only after death.
His paper was, therefore, a vividy
phrased narrative which read likes
page from the age of magic, ratle1
than as scientific report. The PHI
clan was able, by hypnotic suggesl! &
to cure chronic drunkards almost o. =
night.
One of his most Troublesome II
tients was cured when the physfc q
suggested to his sub-conscious M
that he would never be able to III
glass of whisky to his lips. The q
tried it two years afterward and 4c< L.
not get the glass from the bar. a
York society woman was sim3l
cured. A year later she found h6 =
unable to lift glass of champa8
Far more startling were hi1 y
counts of his experiments on the
itual orderland which, in his opE
shuts humanity off from all real h !
edge of human life or the infiue
that direct and shape it. He wa4 -
sured, he said. that those patients hf
found themselves unable to return Stk
ugly habits of intoxication were dI<0'
ing not his suggestions, but their n
subconscious souls.
After describing the beliefs thai y
him to undertake his experiments
Quackenbos said in part:
Human life, at it's best, Is hG n
imperfect expression, through &
and nerve organs, of the suI q
spiritual self. Rut let this Inner
be inspired to assume supra92
l1C HeafT wiils 10 1Iu1ne DIST L ~
to conviction Sih<e by mental sEj
uon given fndividuai may he re6d
ed responsive to good impulses q
incontestably right to use this in4un
mentality as a means even Of c04x<y
ing to the soul ideas of sin and GGe
We do not thereby regenerate ths
soul, or claim any such intent& ~.
simply place it in a position ~ re
ceive that which can regenerate Il
Dr. Quackenbos proceeded to4 le
scribe how, by methods designet a
exalt dormant mind and spiritual tQW
ers he had easily cured oountl4k
cases. of drunkenness, klept0nla1ia
hopeless dishonesty, immoralftyS 5R1
impotence, degeneracy in chil6rel INC
the like. He was careful to MAJ Il
plain that his method is mot infa1l{3le,
independent of ordinary medicfne y
cases where PHYSICAL degeneracy M
taken place, ard said that often Nher(
the physical debility is great any SORT
of cure or effect is utterly impossible
He said, however, that drugs alone
cannot be adequately effective IN hny
disease
He then narrated the incidents &
which patients cured by exaltation anc
suggestion were ever after dominsteG
by a superior force that held then G.
the right path. What that force KAs
he couldn't tell. But he insisted that
its presence and potency was unlits
taxable Drug treatment for alcChol
ism, DIR. Quackenbos said, is only val
liable in so far as it carries suggestion
or aid, through psychic suggestion IN
exalting the inner mind of the patient
The physician said that society vo
men who appeared among his patitnt
were the most hopeless and dif1su1t
to treat.