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IDEAS POSITIVELY REMOVEDLIKEWISE BAD HABITS ANDOTHER THINGS.- « % • /A Chicago Hypnotist Has Opened an Office and is Advertising Himself as Above—Stories of Some of His Alleged Cures.•*v iCharles D. Brouyette is the name of a young man in Chicago who has recently come to light as a hypnotist of great mesmeric powers, which he claims to be intending to use for the good of suffering humanity. He alleges that, with his seemingly superior supernatural power, he can cure the. liquor, morphine, tobacco, cigarette, and all useless habits, also stammer-iing in speech, catching of the breath, etc.The professor is a young man—hardly more than a mere boy in his teens, as far as personal appearance goes—and yet he claims to have accomplished hypnotic feats that have startled some of the oldest and most experienced students of this strange art, occult science, or whatever one chooses to call it. His pale, smooth, almost girlish faoe is framed in a shock of jet-blgck hair, which is wavy but not absolutely curly.But-to the observant stranger the supreme feature of his noble face is his eyes; they are big and as black as the blackness of basalt. And while these eyes are apparently drowsy or sleepy in expression, they have a certain weirdness, too; they fascinate you in certain moods, like the searching, soul-piercing eyes of the basilisk; they have depth; they fix their gaze upon you, rivet your attention, and try as you will you cannot break the spell; you cannot get. away from their mysterious power.In physical build this remarkable young mesmerist is slender and boyish. His manner in repose is also youthful and backward almost to the point of diffidence. But when placing a patient under the spell of his hypnotic power this seeming diffidence undergoes a wonderful transformation; the boy becomes the man, all animation, earnestness, enthusiasm and will.Young Brouyette has opened an office in the suburb of Englewood, and hung out a sign advertising to cure ali the habits named. In addition to these wonderful •things, his sign says he will “remove all ideas that cause trouble.” This is the first office of the kind ever established in Chicago and the strangest offers ever made.For an example of his treatment it is said that he recently took as a patient a young man who in the (habit of smoking 150 cigarettes a day. Alter placing him in a chair.and waiving his hands oVer him in mesmeric fashion, he told him to go to sleep. Immediately the subject fell under the influence of .the hypnotist, and seemed •to be under complete control. The weird -ness of the hypnotist then became apparent. Nothing could be seen but the glitter of his big, black eyes and sinuous movements of his long, skeleton-;ike arffis. Soon the cigarette fiend was apparently in a sound sleep. lie Was then asked if he would like to smoke. Of course he wouldlike to smoke, and tlio hypnotist handed him a.lead pencil, which he smoked with manifestations of the greatest enjoyment. Then the hypnotist passed his hands o\or ihis subject’s face, in the same mesmeric manner, and said “Wake up,” which the young man did without delay. He was again put to sleep and told- that smoking was injurious, that he would no longer desire'lo smoke alder waking. This was the mode of treatment.The same sort of treatment was said lo be accorded an habitual drunkard. He was placed under the power and given a glass of water to drink, the hypnotist telling him that it was whisky. After the patient had drank the water with groat relish., he was informlt;-d that, whisky would kill him and ho must drink it no more. After this he was awakened and told that he would 11c: again desiredrink. The same method of treatment is used for the oilier habits. The length of time* required for a complete cure, Prof. Brouyette says, depends altogether on the temperament of the patient and the age of the habit to be cured. Sometimes he says he can cure in one or two treatments and again it requires from three to ten.Prof. Brouyette said that of all the fiends-lie has ever had to treat the morphine fiend is the worst. In a case where a man has .been using morphine or opium in any form for any great length of time, it requires the greatest skill in judgment and often weeks in treatment before lie can get them divorced from their trouble.Many of the professor's consultations with regard to removing troublesome ideas from minds, have developed some peculiar notions. One vounst woman underwent treatment to have removed the idea that she was destined to become an old maid. Prof. Brouyette fixed her mind to believe that she would be a happy bride before she was 25. Another case is that of a man whom he now has under trcatmnt. The man came to him, recently, saying that he was about to commit a murder. The man was on the borderland of insanity from business cares, and Prof. Brouyette says he will completely rid him of the idea when his course of treatment by suggestion is completed.BICYCLES FIRST,Wliile Matters Concerning tKe SoulGome Second.PASSAIC. N. J., July 5.—Bicycle ridingis said to have caused the disbandment ofa Christian endeavor society. A large*number of the members, including several of the officers, have recently learned to ride wheels, and since then, it is alleged, have neglected their duties to the society to such an extent that no one is left to manage its affairs.The society in question is that of the Dutch reformed church, the oldest church in northern New Jersey. A meeting of the society was held, the other night, and only a few members attended. It was the annual election of officers, but no one would allow his name to be put up.“Let’s disband the society until winter,” suggested one of the members, who recently purchased a wheel. The suggestion was made a motion and carried by a Targe majority.“It's too bad,” said a former .president, “but so many of our members have become so infatuated with their wheels that they had not time to take any interest in the society, and we had to give it up.”
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Indianapolis Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, Aug 05, 1897
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