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Show VIOTIM Or "TELErATHV." Carious Coaiuioo Iniloe.d by lb Cm of (Wain. TTiere came to me lato ono night a stranger, In "Wildest despair, resolved to -commit suicide that night If I could not help him soya Professor Munetor-jrg Munetor-jrg In the January Atlantic He had been a physician, but had given up his praetlco because his brother, on tho other side of the orenn, hated him and had him un ler his telepathic Influence Influ-ence trouMing blm from over tho sea with voices which mocked him nnd with Impulses to foollah nctlons Ho had not slept nor hal ho eaten anything any-thing for several das, and the only ehnncci for life he saw wns that a how hypnotic Influence might overpower the mystical hypnotic forces I soon found the sourco of his trouble. In treating himself for a wound ho hnd misused cm nine In nn absurd way, nnd tho hallucinations of voices wero tho Ollcf .symptoms of his rocnlnlsm Theso prolurts of hhuvolsoncj, brain bjd sojnclnjiwcfurcnco to his brother tn pifope andjfjfifji thrftcleptthlc ays-Jem ays-Jem grew lnj him an I, permeated' his whole life "ifliyj.nollted him, and suggested" sug-gested" to b(m with success to have sleep and food and a smaller dose of cocaine Then I hypnotcd him dally for six weeks After ten days be gavo up cocaine entirely, after three weoks tho voices disappeared and after that the other symptoms faded away. It was not, hoever, until tho end that tho telepathic system was exploded. Even when the voices hnd gone, he for a while felt his movements controlled over the orean, and nftcr six weeks, 'when I hal him quite well ngaln, he laughed over his telepathic absurdities, but assured me that It theso sensations earns again ho should bo unablo, oven In full health, to resist the mystical Interpretation, so vividly Iml bo fell tho dlstaut Influences |