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Show A series of very wonderful experiments experi-ments whiah have just been coucluHd by Dr. Luys of Paris, whoso observations observa-tions and discoveries in connection witb magnetism and electricity in relation to hypnotism made a profound impression impres-sion upon the scientific world sometime ago, has led to a remarkable result. The latest discovery establishes the fact ;hat cerebral aotivity can be transferred to a orewn of magnotized iron, in which tba activity can be retained and subsequent ly passed on to a second person. Incredible Incred-ible as this may seem, Dr. Luy? nas proved its possibility by the experiments experi-ments just referred to. He placed the crown, whiob in reality real-ity is only a chcular baud magnetized magnet-ized iron, on the head of a female patient pa-tient suffering from melancholia, witb a mania for self destruction, and with such success was the experiment attended at-tended that within a fortnight the patient pa-tient could be allowed to go free without with-out danger, tho crown having absorbed all her marked tendencies. About two weeks afterward he cat the same crown, which meanwhile had been carefully kept free from contact with anything else, on the head of a male patient suffering from hysteria, complicated by frequent recurrent periods pe-riods of lethargy. The patient was then hypnotized and immediately conducted himself after the manner of the woman who had previously worn the crown Indeed he practically assumed her per sonality aDd uttered exactly the same eumplaints as she had done. Similai phenomena have, it is reported, beet observed in the case of every patient experimented ex-perimented upon. Another experiment showed that the crown rsined the impression im-pression acquired nntil made red-hot. red-hot. London Te'.egraff gJ |