Show ladles literary club at the ladies literary club friday december lt the tort topic for the afternoon was aas hypnotism the word wonderful erful phenomena formerly known khoan as lm ism witchcraft prophecy animal mag maff neti sin I 1 cliflon cli glon and now known re BS hypnotism has been greeng r z ed from the th e earliest a rl est dimps the greek and roman tile tho delphic oracles and tho the witch of endor wre wore subject to hy hypnotic trance the th latter cona conjuring ring the shadows we of the th dead as aa does tho medium med turn of oc the he nineteenth century in the temple at achata was aas a well in which the priests brodu produced ed the images of those for kullorn the acre cure was waa sought bought on the imme hams line oa as the spirit photographer of tho the present d daiy diy ny with the dd advent vent of 0 the belief in the divine origin of this power 0 ceased aed a ed and it was relegated to blabol trin but allt in the taft century there were over hypnotic subjects in franco alone they were p r for wI witchcraft and under the most painful tortures boull fall into a trance and be lt loft for dead and upon awakening would have no consciousness of having suffered buffered pain min or of receiving ther wounds pred fred anton alls met born in 1734 mid and pursuing a scientific and medical education first ali pt placed this power on any basl basis under the name of animal magn magnetism ism subsequently mesmerism he ha had d a large following and ron ran a success successful 1 career until 1784 4 wl when i on a government comm I 1 aslon appointed to investigate his theories and practices pronounced hint him rl fraud from which time his star began to wane wall but this visa duo due lather to the appearance at thin juncture of the great Ar wizard izard Caglia gagliastro who claimed to produce the same effects by lodger demain than to the fact of the commission te benell benefits ts of hypnotism have been demonstrated in modern times limes by the late Cliar charcot cot in la salpe briere where his results have been very minar kable it was formerly suppo supposed eed that only weak minded people could be but it has haa beet been demon strat d that almost any ono one la Is susceptible cep tible idiots cannot be hypnotized und lid where the can call be brought under Its influence they can bo be cured its jt power powel for good and evil are cled US as bo be infinite Intini te that in ianco france it has been found necessary nce esary to prohibit its it exercise except to the medical pro fe while there seems to be so much mystery attached alt ached to this occult science till the of scientific opinion scorns to be that tat it Is animal ma mag 9 nellian neL lial |