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'.lot1 to 10, tt nd. iron-ted ith ast om ing ;ed Lhonotor*,thru, or, nil the ora mo be 1 ie mt-i o( bat illy gnl ie i’ll s, cat tiro us-rode, ral roa tvo [ho 1th ras is-n a wn ap-ro-onor-fd.icdowdairyor.ty-□d.nglidOilLinis-,hols-Lalow£Lt-Lrdialay»Ssrsty-rl-nolD-1-ih-ngir-idin-»gis,a1 aIWilponin.psasis.onanlit■Q-ofshso.-y.thdl-iisofa'5-adSECRETS OF HYPNOTISM.The St run ire tarts* tVhioh I* Ftizxlln* tfcf Scientific tTorlil.When a person has become tho*-* Oughly hypnotized ho Is but nn automaton, moving, acting,- thinking at tho will of the operator, who can pro-duco any sensation that ho may desire. Ho can fioshrny sensation and eoriiploto * anaesthesia. Tho fingers of a subject j can bo sewed togothor, drawing thread I through tho flesh, and tho victim will t rfnnin an amused spoctator, You win render any son so hy perm sthe tic, so that intense pain will bo felt nt the Bllghtest touch.Every sense can bo intensified, though no other per son in the room can bo heard save tho operator, yet tho faintest whisper by him will bo heard distinctly across a wide room. A watch in his hand can bo hoard at a distance of thirty or forty feet distinctly, and. located, oven whoa the subject is blindfolded.Memory is mado exceedingly acute, so that things in a normal Btate which arc forgotten aro easily remembered unci recalled. A young man who had lost a small article was made to remember where ho had’it lost, aud was 6cnt for it, and returned with it ns a mutter of courso, though ho had searched long and painfully for il when in a normal state of mind. Tt Is impossible to hypnotize nn idiot, blit not Impossible to hypnotism n feebleminded person, and there is a uso of it Indicated in that respect which promises development to such iu acuteness and mental strength.It can be made the instrument ol many crimes. At tho request of n physician present I suggested to a young lady whom I had hypnotized that sho was suffering with a sore throat and pneumonia, and that she had a high fever and was ill. Her pulse increased so rfipidly that in tho space of five seconds tho physician said that tho incraaso was at the rnto of forty boats to tho minute, ft Is my opinion that I could have killed her by increasing the heart's action, and that a physician would have signed a certificate of death by pneumonia or paralysis of the heart.Sho was of a gentle, kindly disposition, and yet, hypnotized, would commit murder at tho operator’s direction as reuilily as sho would oat aii apple. A paper dagger was placed in her hand, and slio*was instructed to kill a person present, and sho stabbed him with but littlo hesitation, and on being awakened had no remembrance of doing tho deed. Sho would have committed suicide with tho same indifference os she committed tho murder, and mako no plea against it. The story tliut comes from Franco that such a thing was dono, and that tho operator who commanded tho suicide is to bo hanged for murder, is all a probable thing, whether tho story published is an invention or a fact. A business man who could bo hypnotized would write a chock at tho command of lho operator and then forget ever having done itTho whole phenomena of faith euro and so-called Christian science lie in tho domain of this now aeioricb. Whatever there is in thought transforeneb is here,' 'A physician of some prominence, in an interview on tho subject of hypnotism. said to a reporter:From time to timo I am using hypnotism, or suggestion, whore tho conditions warrant it, among tho sick. I do not olaitn for it any super natural power, nor do I lesson the faith of people in God as tho healer of our diseases, but I tell them that there tiro certain diseases proceeding from the nervous system that can bo modiflu-.l or healed, and I use suggestion us a remedy. Whether 1 can effect a permanent cure hy tho moans I do not know yet, os there aro complication.! beyond tho reach of this agent.“Tho physicians of this country should como up to tho uso of this, and I will cheerfully resign all encroachment upon their art when they do. Men of strong perceptions ami dominant wills often see lifo whoro others prognosticate death, and bring back, by the infusion of their own strong wills, those who else might give up tho struggle and die.“No man who has had a widu experience among the sick and tho dying but what caii substantiate this with case upon cuso. Tho grosser forms of materialism aro giving away bo fore some of tho subtler forms or matter, and these fall out of our hands in tho presence of psychic forces, of which nil matter is but a varied manifestation. The secret of lifo ia still the secret of God. The knowledge of IILm in tho domain of either morals or physics Is the increase of tho knowledge of life.” —N. X. World.
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Ackley Enterprise
Ackley, Iowa, US
Fri, Jul 26, 1889
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