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A MESMERIC “STIFF.Experiments Before a Class of Medical College Students of a Remarkable Nature.1jClituigo Tribune.]About 201) student* ot Kush Medical College looked down yesterday morning from the Beats of the amphitheater upon experiments probably as mistilying us they hnu ever witnessed. Professor K. (J. Johnson gave an exhibition of his powers as u mesmerist. and the spectators watched with great interest the exercise of that power which has always been more or less of a conundrum to science. He is a young man, probably twenty years ot age, with reddish hair and a slight reddish mustache. His chin is weak, and the general make-up of his features would seem to indicate extreme sensibility rather than willpower, lit? proceeded to at once reduce himself to a comatose condition by making the usual pusses, pressing the back of his head and smoothing his forehead. In a tew seconds |ri be dropped limp and apparently-1; helpless into the anus of his assist-1 ant, and was laid out on a table as! b if lie were a subject for dissection. | c» A few passes over his legs amlanns, i K anti his form became rigid. He was I then lifted IVom the table, and was laid with hi* head on the back lt;l1 one chair and his heels on that ofliViinuinanother. A man sat on his stomach. but did not bend him. To say that he was a “slitf*’ while lie maintained this u u com for table position would be adhering to the literal truth. Then he was pricked with needles, and thread’ was drawn through hi* lips and ears, hut not a! ri inu.srlo tjuivcreil, and the effect was; cj: virtually the same as it lie had been di under the influence of the mo.slpow- w erlui uf anesthetics. He was raised • la from the stupor by his assistant.and ! tl then the latter was made the subject ai of similar experiments. A needle gi»!is'with thread was passed through the skin on the back of his Imnd. then the needle was run through the lip, jSl and the Imnd was drawn by thcjui force ol the thread up to the mouth. Im A large drop of blood stood out on pi die lip, but this was the only noticeable effect of the operation.
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New Castle Mercury
New Castle, Indiana, US
Fri, Apr 27, 1883
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