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Show Reed Means to Sfody the Art. New York Physician Would Like to Establish Institute. Thinks One Million Dollars "Would Be Required for Permanent Perma-nent Plant. NEW YORK, Dec 10. At a mooting of tho American Society of Scientific Research, Re-search, John Duncan Quackcnbos, M. D solontlfic hypnotist, put In a plea for a hypnotic ipstltuto In Now York. Ho would llko to soo Jl, 000,000 'raised for a permanent plant, and as muoh more to keep It running. "The valuo of such an institute," ho said, would bo twofold. In tho first placo It would furnish means for further Btudy of hypnotism, mental suggestion, and tho Uttlo known kindred phonomcna. In tho second placo It could bo used as an agent for tho euro of disordered bodies and disordered dis-ordered minds. "A young follow applied U1I3 autumn for tho cure of an Irresistible impulse to throw hlmsolf into tho arms of every corpulent cor-pulent woman ho saw and bo hushed off to sleep by her. He had planned cscapo by sulcldo. Such conditions yield to no human treatment except that of suggestion. sugges-tion. " By tho samo process actresses, musicians musi-cians and literary persons havo boon taught to conquer doubt and Heb!-con-sclousncss and become great. An actress who had beon treated said ho was "conscious "con-scious of an Internal elevation nnd expansion., ex-pansion., My eoul rushed forward in ono great overmastering responso to somo creative communication,'' and sho made a hit A clarinet playor, who had difficulty with his technique, especially his sight roadlng. was taken In hand. As a result he got a now placo as first clarlnot at double his former salary. Dr. Quackcnboa is-of tho opinion that hynnotio suggestion may bo employed at childbirth to save tho lives of mothers. Tho BuggeBtlvo thought, "You must Hvo for your child," would savo many a woman wo-man at the critical tlmo. "It has been used in his own practice to euro such diseases as diabetes. It will in future, ho believes, bo used bv trained nurses for tho purposo of carrying patients pa-tients through crises. Not only that, physicians of tho future will, ho says, uae It to Bhape tho futuro of tho unborn, tho character of tho forming child being determined de-termined by ante-natal suggestion. Hypnotic- suggestion, in tho opinion of Dr. Quackenbos. should bo encouraged by all clergymen and all truo Christians as a valuable ethical ally to Christianity. Just now it Is reprehended by many ministers min-isters ns tending to wcakon tho will. Tho roverae, ho says, is truo." |