Show iitrsonsu If the attention bo directed fe ttatedly by an Individual in conditions con-ditions of bodily weakness to any part of his organism sensations of different kinds not existingprevi ouslywlll be perceived in that part OUIlrlwm This is a fact generally accepted by physicians and fatal l ilttlte liv its it-s maintained mulled simply from lie Influence of the Imagination in ensified In ita power by fear at the time of reception of tome slight or even fancied Injury Alone of the highest mental faculties wo must consider that of concentrating byan act of will the attention the convene con-vene of such power is inability to concentrate the attention by an cfiort of tho wllf and consc uently the individual mind is here a prey to all sorts of distraction arising from reusorlal peripheral impressions or from nental reproduction of previous Ire r08I tales t or ideas these reproductions being due to hyperexcitability of I he cortical brain cell If now by any process the power of inhibiting mental impressions arising from occurrences oc-currences without the body or wIthIn wIth-In it is put out of functionthe power or concentrating the attention is lost for the time Iwlngand iniagina ion may run riot Sow let the uiaglnalion be directed Into a definite defi-nite channel to to say andthere being no inhibitory check upon It whatever power it may have lu airecllng vital processes of the or ganl < m will be cxerclced to an in usual degrte in the dlrec lon or channel to which lte opuratlous are thus limited In eucb conJillon tho individual may be made to sleep or to enter abnormal states such as catalepsy to become anasthetlc in different Kitteof the body to experience hal udnatlons of fight or taste etc to xblbit without any external real cause different trophic ditordere such as the appearance of a blister which I goes through all the stages of hflt eennro b1Jt Image Men in n ordinary blister rrom a burn to be without memory f what occurs during the condition to become an automaton and follow fol-low the ojierator as a piece of soft Iron follows a magnet and finally to be eo imbued with a oummand of he operator that at the hour directed di-rected t by the ltu It may w many hour or even tome days fterward the subject then In ils ordinary condition JotS preclse I Iy and at the exact time and without with-out knowing why jart what he hade I > had-e n ordered to do More than this = r I L eajfs can be ordered away normal nor-mal secretions and discharges of the o rganlsm can their absence being if ease be ordered to return nd even tho normal pains in sor DO surgical operations can bo core manded to not appear and in suitable subjects these commands ave been obeyed These are facts many of them repeated over and over again and the state orcondl lon of body in which I such phe umena are possible Is called hyp oiIs or more commonly bypno < m tuTbe school of Charcot hold that only hysterics are subject to hyp otic method and that hypnosis telf Is a dlseaw a neuroMs The tInal stage of development In the subject up to tilt present writing ulmlnatet In thc olwervatlons of Ur II Bernhelm professor In the medical school at > ancy < He has shown that the theory of Charcot 131 beclouded the whole subject both from the purely experimental and the therapeutic points of view All the facts which for years have been observed the few drilled hysterical subjectsIn La Salpetrlere can be explained by the action of suggestion Dud all the thenomena of hypnotism are to rbenomena iC thus explained Suggestion maybe may-be verbal or by gesture or by Uie unconscious pl of the operators eat u res fr m surprlKordIsappolnt mentorsstlsfactlonetc Tbeexpec atlon that pome special line of phenomena phe-nomena will appear acts In cases such as Cliarcots subjects as a suggestion sug-gestion The Influenccof dtfer nt melols applied I to different parts f the body is proven to have been rom within the subject but aroused by suggestion t antosuggesllon as in the case of applied plates ol cold from the old notion that e7 the metal jroldj possesses a specially noble quality for thia metal refused to act when the subject was made to > elrevelt was copper and copper when believed by the 1eccrr be gold brought out the same symp fdtlntbih r oms as gold did In the earlier ex lerlmcnts So In Luys experiments experi-ments with medlclnfs In closed and sealed glass tubes held in the band sOath r applied to different parts of the sul jects body the possibility and even the livelihood of auto 4lg2e t on cannot be excluded The writer believes with Dr Frleden reich that an Individual who has > een frequently hypnotized h icreby rendered abnormal and ven If other abnormalities cannot be shown to exbt he Is ftlll easily hypnotlzable and read I I subjected to the Influence of another peOn1I At the lame time it most be remembered bat this Is probably true oaly of fre uency of tho higher cranes of ypnodsm and that Bernhelm dls nctly states that the higher grades a re not necessary for therapeutic lurposes Suggestion accepted without with-out resistance and often Unconsciously Uncon-sciously by the subject accounts for aJl 1 that hypnotism really does the mode of action Within the body Is unknown but itis according b natural laws of the organIsm organ-Ism I have yct to learn that a imor has been removed by hypno llim or that the results of a dcstruc Uve lesion in the nervous item have btfm undone or that an ulcer bas been healed suddenly The > ower of posthypnotic suggestion 1 cause crime through an innocent JI rent carrying outat a time hours or days after emerging from tbG J hypnotic state the action tnggestr hlle in that state baa aroused the setus irUentloD of physicians and jurist alikt trbile tbe danger o cla i producing a wldeJpKad condition of nervous dlscoie < J ft molt or public demonstrations of rirt nr ism is emphasized by all witter t4f1 rer upon the subject In different Eu fopcan countries medical and 1rga1 societies Late petitioned the author rIdle ItUtloned IUesopf6htblt all public l exhibi fl publ nC 14ns 6f mmerbm by any person per-son ifbaift6ver and to forbid tbe employment tt hypnosis l > y any IJ f1 rJ pencm not a hjilcixfi wlthspccfa knowledge of nervous dittbUti The nseof hypnosis by pbyslciana shoult be limited to therapeutic purposes or for tbe inttruction of medlca I etudcirtsnnd as for these ends the lower grade if brpnoti m are to conlJl > s to UernbeJujC ftjfllclent no I Injurious Conseqnences ntta follow For his own protection the pfrjsf clanf houl J not use tho method except ex-cept in tbe tiresenceof n third reput nbis person as wltnesB Jmeptt T QOunntr M D tn The CoUtolio World for tUruary |