Show JFC1llhI1 lliPO11Si LECTRE HYPNOTSM 0 Professor Matthews Discourses Interestingly on That Subject WONDERFUL POWER GIVEN PATIENTS MAY IMAGINE THEMSELVES THEM-SELVES OTHER PERSONS Iou it is Proilnced Hovr the Afralc ciiiiig Conies The Meilieal Surgical Sur-gical and Ltsal Aspects of the finest ion excellent Musics by Local Lo-cal Vocalints Next Sunday I any doubt a to the success of the Sunday night lectures of the Press club for the benefit of the Young Ladles Aid society had existed in the mind of the public it must have been dissipated In the minds of those who were present at the theatre last evening even-ing and saw the parquet and dress circle comfortably filled and an overflow over-flow into the first balcony The receipts re-ceipts were over 140 at the door and at the present stage of the reckoning the clear profits will be over 105 The nrisicil part of the programme was well Mistamed by Robert Gorlinski in Tie New Kingdom R J Thomas in There is a City Bright and theY the-Y 1 C A quartette in Lead Kindly LIgnt Professor G R Matthews of the University Uni-versity delivered a lecture on the subject sub-ject of hypnotism that showed a careful care-ful preparation of facts gleaned from deep research He said that he could not enter Into the whole subjectas it is too comprehensive but would simply attempt to touch upon it ina superficial super-ficial way Hypnotism is a modern term as many of its phenomena have been previously viously known under other names such as animal magnatism and mesmerism merism and its history is coexlstant with much of the history of the world from very early days I is a state of artificial sleep in whica the subject operator can receive Impressions from the One way In which it is produced is to have the patient close his eyes and think of nothing The old way was for the operator to look into the e e of the patient stroke the skin of the head make passes suggest the idea of sleep and do other things of that nature The state may be produce also by loud noises when a hysterical person is concerned I can be taken a a general rule however that the state cannot be produced unless the < ui < < t has some thought of being hypnotised I Young children idiots and insane persons per-sons cannot be operated upon as niey cannot fix their attention The awakening awak-ening is caused by calling wake up breathing on the eyelids or making some sign that was agreed upon The hypnotic state is a state of abnormal ab-normal mental activity It is a recognized g dm ileis cognized principle that the human I mind is susceptible to certain impressions impres-sions under certain conditions and that certain ideas will suggest others For I instance one acquainted with history can never think of St Helena without thinking O Napoleon Some other I I ideas will make an effect on the out wl side This susceptibility of the patient is what governs the power of hypnotism hypnot-ism ismThe patient believes everything the hypnotist tells him and does anything at command In fact the operators power is generally limited by his im agination and the patience of his audience au-dience Movements can be caused or I prevented The patient can be made to go through complicated performances I performan-ces upon being told By the power of fascination the operator may by lOOkI ing into his patent eyes cause a reproduction re-production of his movements He may I fix his gaze upon the patients arm kind the member will become rigid There are three stages the cataleptic catalep-tic lethargic and somnambulic each n ii which Is marked I by peculiar conditions condi-tions in the physical and mental actions ac-tions of the patient In some of the stages of hypnotia the patient will repeat whatever is said and will even talk in a foreign language that he really knows nothing noth-ing about A patient can be made to respond to one Impression on one side of his face and t another on the oth ler He can be told that he has taken three or four glasses of liquor and hew he-w go through the different stages of unkenness Painful experiences can be undergone with the greatest equain imity and the operator needs only the assure the patient of freedom from pain A man may be made to believe he has never been born and his consciousness conscious-ness becomes a mere blank He can be told that he Is again a child and will act as one One man can be made to assume the personality of another For Instance a patient was told that he was Napoleon and he assumed the historical pose of that conqueror Patients Pa-tients have been told they were animals ani-mals and have acted as such One was told that he was made of glass and asked persons to keep away from him for fear they would break him A person can be made to believe that he cannot se more than one person im a room at one time and he will find I himself in this I O IOand He ll answer an-swer questions addressed to him by anyone and can feel anyone In the room but his vision is limited by the will of the operator I A person may be made to do things after he comes out of the hypnotic state though months might elapse For Instance a hypnotist told a patient to I I come to his room at a certain day and I he would find the operator there with his face blackened The patient remembered re-membered nothing of this command when he came out of his trance but on the appointed day he appeared as he bat been told having been urged on by an irresistable desire Still the subject is not entirely a automaton In the hands of the opera tor for i is found that when he is told to do anything which is repugnant to his former habits of life or his training train-ing he will rebel and the more repugnant I repug-nant the suggestion the stronger will et ist f be the rebellion This shows the working work-ing of the 1 dents will apart from the Influence of the hypnotist The effect on the memory is peculiar In the lighter cases it Is found that there is no Impairment of the power to remember all tlfat has taken place in the subjects life and even While in hypnotic state But in some of the deeper trances it is found that the memory of the patient will become a perfect blank as to all things done while In the hypnotic state and sometimes some-times as to all things done previously in life Still sometimes impressions will remain that can be kindled by suggestion sugges-tion For Instance a patient might have heard an opera played in one of his trances and on being awakened would have no knowledge of anything that had transpired Yet if he were asked I he had heard this opera he would be likely to remember everything that had taken place At other times it is found that the patient will remember remem-ber in one trance what was done in another in years gone by Sometimes in t trance forgotten things vlll come to mind and patients have spoken while under influence some language learned In childhood but since forgotten Sometimes Some-times in one period everything that has ever taken place will be remembered and In another nothing can be recollected recol-lected The physical effects of the hypnotic condition are a subject of much conjecture con-jecture It has been found however that in the cataleptic stage a person can remain in a constrained and unnatural un-natural position fqr many hours without with-out experiencing any marked fatigue The fact that tKe mind operating on thebodY can produce certain very remarkable re-markable results and that cures have been accomplished because the person r ic b W n chose to believe he could be cured makes hypnotism of great importance to the medical profession In the surgical sur-gical fleldr however i has been found to be too uncertain for any dependance to be placed upon It I has Its legal aspects because under its influence a person might be compelled to commit a crime or to testify falsely or to bestow be-stow upon some undeserving person an undeserved gift After explaining what is known of the theory of hypnotism and going Into details on a great many of the points the lecturer showed some stereoptlcan views Illustrating his remarks Next Sunday Hon O W Powers will lecture on Wonderland and the musical musi-cal part of the programme will be Sustained by Mrs Jennie Hawley Woodrow Wood-row Miss Golda Breedlove F W King and Miss Rosalia Morris |