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uei tHYPNOTISM CURES ope RELIGIOUS MANIAHysterical Young Woman Sayed From Insane Asylum by , Psychic Experiment. ?IS TRANSFERRED TO ANOTHERYoung Artist Who Offers Self for Experiment Is Later Relieved of Transferred Malady by Mean*of Hypnotism. ;Autornear Jzy. ■ theP.Sun-G Dssistthe:bineputiven-ar.dness e; of.H.id bycal-metl.d by(i ourchal-mb’e-Sunevan-1 the itter-y the t. E, Mossrchirmng Ve in-unday s also as all hurchTaris.—A strange cure, o£ a psychic nature, has just been achieved before a number of doctors and a few experimenters along the lines of psychiatry.The patient was a young woman of hysterical tendency, who for, seven years had been possessed with an anti-religious mania. During this time the sight of a priest, the act of passing near a church, the pronunciation of a religious formula-all have brought on either attacks of violence or spells of dumbness. The association of ideas which precipitate these crises were of the most fantastic kind—a piece of white paper suggested the host, ro- | maine salad turned her mind toward the Roman church, a glass of chartreuse the.brotherhood of Carthusian tnonks. At these suggestions she would tremble and faint- To nourish a patient under these conditions daily became more and more of a problem.Takes Extreme Measures.In Paris last autumn the doctors whom her husband consulted advised him to incarcerate her. Deciding to try everything else before resorting to tills extreme measure, her husband, on the advce of an eminent chemist, finally put her’ under the treatment of a weil-knowD specialist in psrcotherapy, if. Mangin. Six months of treatment, consisting In psychic re-education, either in a state of waking or by superficial hypnosis, gave only results of short duration. The Easter festivities exasperated the patient to the point of frenzy. This decided Mr. Mangin to go to extreme measures. He began a tireless search for a subject suitable for the experiment of a transference of the malady, with all its anguish and strange manifestations. This was a difficult task, for the subject must be of such.a delicate and perfect suggestibility as to be able later to be freed in turn from these same miseries.Mine. Georgette Abel, a charming young artist, offered herself for tills delicate experiment with as much charity as disinterestedness. On being put to sleep the subject’s hand was placed in the hand ’ of the afflicted i woman. In a few moments the subject underwent, an .indescribable, transformation. She was seized with agonizing convulsions. The patient, however, grasped the hand of the doctor, declaring with emotion that she was “liberated.Malady Is Transferred.On the order of M. Mangin, the latter uttered a stream of worqis touching the church, words which for seven years she had refused to utter under all kinds of compulsion. In the meanwhile, the young artist threw herself on the floor and attempted to heat her head against the wall, crying out in the same manner In which the patient was wont to do. The latter, passing from words to nets, touched a holy medal, handled a crucifix and made a short prayer, ail this quietly and without any hesitation, while the subject moaned and threw herself about more and more.Being assured of the complete “liberation” of the former sufferer, M.-Mangin let the subject sleep while he made suggestions of a soothing nature to her. Then he awakened her. Both women were In a perfectly tranquil state. Since this time the young wife goes every day to church. She had a long conversation with a friend of the writer who says that not a trace of her former malady was visible. It is two weeks since the cure was wrought and it has been perfectly maintained. As for Mme. Abel, she is happier -and healthier than ever.M. Mangin does not pretend to know ry what force he has accomplished this marvelous cure He does not attempt to interpret the facts, he only Inquires into them carefully and impartially, which is a great deal.-Cor projet up th expec parts Thou: rnai i miles Ent ers, I to th here t and v ier re Wh in 1! s quar killia. wipin It wa But t form: of th Th them, vario and i solid! ley, clove lidjjv guide many liquh cross in ley i whie of ,hlt; Falli roll off n riatit Be valle of vi othei in tt bilitiVAfBi Cob; miss shoe tor ■ who Uy. : fair;T1 tih J for er, ’ wbe arm his torHFebfainordiatheathrcGHNanc
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Lake Park News
Lake Park, Iowa, US
Thu, Oct 30, 1919
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