Show DAY all physical functions except the action of the heart were suspended for a week cleveland 0 0 july 8 A week ago a hypnotist named Santo nelll secured tile the consent of the parents ot of harmon leonard living in ravenna to attempt a several days test luring during winch which all the physical functions except the action of the heart were to be entirely suspended during an ordinary on june leonard was commanded by to leave the auditorium in which he was exhibiting and go to a tent that had been erected near by and lie ile down and steep leonard obeyed the tent in which he lay has been open to visitors every day since at night the subject was guarded carded by a young companion who refused to leave him when he was asleep his pulse was 84 this was reduced by hypnotism to 64 and on the following day to 64 54 and then ahm to 41 it afterwards rose to about so 50 and remained at that point until just before he was awake awakened nedr during this time young leonard has not had his clothing changed and has not left his couch except as he be was ordered to stiffen out so 90 that ho he could be raised by attendants ana photographed a day or two ago ills his guards are willing to make oath that he lias has remained without food or stimulants and that his physical functions have been dormant a all 11 this time leonard was taken out of the trance by Santo nelll in the presen presence ce of a large crowd last evening his pulse had ab about out 90 soon risen to but fell to of the after he expressed ignorance tact fact that he had been I 1 asleep and supposed the crowd about him was the he ha had A left a week before two on one manlie manles sted ted who attended ill him in doctors in the result of iest interest greatest the grez claiming that in the the experiment the abdomen wounds in of gunshot ff case when a suspension of t the he functions would assist recovery the use of would be of vital importance hypnotism Santo Sant nelll oneill pro proposes poes to make a two weeks test under the supervision of physicians in a few weeks |