Show AD 1 HISTORY AND PROGRESS UP I 1 a TO DATE it i e Wr hare ilare made it their stock tn in I 1 xia lalan tart I 1 if rale rd 1 la all TI times 18 origin of the term I 1 la eatn us scientific geams vito ai biow I 1 largely amely Iuro european thought hag has d tow ww rd the subject clr OL hypnotism turm blown 1 mn I 1 by the lie fact t I 1 I 1 tit ther there are a two 3 dozen societies devol devoid devold d i ils 1 aai I half a sarh 1 V 17 to its study a scientific jour excell tac 01 monthly in paris upon its 11 find at leat fifty y prominent phyll I 1 p pirl it n and scientist ascii otist who are making it a il wid of investigation since 1885 1881 r looks los have been written upon it n I 1 fora at m can be truly babil to w o 0 quite a goodly literature of its own lall 11 Is Ai nerle has caught the contagion of revar jh h it i more than probable thai the tits ii lc 1 w fil me tree the figures mentioned tIt t ne betit D jar iv 11 Icle aed by american societies aud and literary work va paper 0 tt people could be put into a trance 0 or r rale sleep p has been known for centi I 1 i in the east as far back as B C alar i 11 have practiced tho same tricks as an iiii li ilig ii tried today by the physicians of europe nl aud america both hindmo and t him lon ri rs of that time referred to th ilni curious urious psychological experiments ill in v fai rn t muc h the same manner as the daily rs ilo do to dr charcot Cliar cot at the present I 1 A e 01 fling to dr bjornstrom a I 1 swedish physician and a abhor T or is a arct in 1 I egypt that has practiced ced ha ini for forty y centuries and to cap the hi dimac rii 1 enthusiastic new york the tl lainis 1118 that the e deep sleep into n aich adam was thrown at the time of I 1 lye s en cr aaion on was merely a case of a I 1 III made no great im impression 0 apoi pu 11 ilia all european nr mind until the begin J n of t abe I 1 je eighteenth century when in the he pi odice i 10 of dauphine france the entire went crazy on tho the suba subject t at one lime tinie cot not lesa less than deop people e ec of alt ditri dietrict lt nt ct imagined that they were prop lieta directly inspired from hei lie iven froin from that time tune on there has been nn an line of and hypnotized amateur and professional genuine genuino and fraudulent villy ill t the lie hitter latter part of the eighteenth r th centory cen tiry VM w there any attempt made to the phenomena from a standpoint tand point before that time they were regarded as the manifestations of good spirits or of devils in 1773 for exam example plea a famous ex monk known aa as father gass kier established ft a spiritual sanitarium lit regensburg where he is said to have drawn around him his ills treatment was itself he ile would mesmerize his patient until the latter litter went into this showed conclusively diabolic possession and was considered d nl t most miraculous by his followers by restoring storing the patient to consciousness lie was wait believed to have exorcised exercised the devil and effected a cure this curious field was int in t brought into the highest prominence by tho the celebrated swiss phy physician bician dr friedrich mesmer A combination of discoverer and quack quick of brilliant intellectual powers and deficient moral qualities he kept europe ina in a turmoil from about 1770 to I 1 ITO ITOI W I tho tile mere inere fact that the words mesmerize and mesmerism coined in his ills honor have endured the wear and tear of more than a it century bears beam witness to the power of the mans personality the expressions animal magnetism a end nd personal magnetism were his tits creations and are as much in vogue today as in hid his luxurious parlors on the place vendome he to have known 11 T great principle that human nature loves fo be humbugged humbugger hum bugged and will pay for it pro idan forthe for the few scientific tru truths HIS labich lich he lie apprehended were BO so weighted sawn with and mummery of the idlest kind as to escape the attention of the scientific world of tin his time though h denounced ed by such men is as franklin and Ila illy and it in after years neglected and forgotten by the people idol ho lie once was nm he lie did a great work for the race despite the dt honest surroundings under which it was conducted for after all modern cism is nothing more or lone less than inea mes in creating the new name scientists have only beaten about the bush lesmer was followed follow edby by the tile notorious notor loua impostor cagliostro tro by cholon dB dH aIon olon marias marims ind greatest the marquis do Puy Pay segur the last named bail a 0 strong scientific bent and early called attention to mesmeric fek features tures which theretofore had bad been overlooked he lie was undoubtedly th first to give careful study to those phenomena ena which for lack of better words we ire sum up I 1 ltd abd indicate by such clumsy terms aa as somnambulism clairvoyance mind reading thought transference tram ference will control and the like since his ills time comparatively little new and original work has been done in this field of research but an immense am amount 0 11 11 t las lis been accomplished in studying detallo de tailo ascertain ing conditions and classify classifying i 0 9 phenomena it will probably surprise t tho he reader to know that over aw large vol volumes u mes have been written upon the subject by set men of high standing and that tho work goes steadily on among the tile moro more Zini imminent nent investigators may bo be mentioned dr james braio dr hack tuck and dr ireland of augh england and the late dr goo george rge N X beard dr grimes Grimea grimeland and dr william F hammond ammond II of the united states baron von reichenbach dr prey preyer er and professor Wein bold of germany professor hansen llan seu of denmark dr bjornstrom Bj of sweden professor saor azain dr broca dr Lle Lie bault professor richet and last in point of time but one of tho the greatest in talent professor charcot tho tile neurologist of france when a person is hypnotized he be may be in anyone any one of three baates the cataleptic tho the lethargic or the somnambulistic in I 1 the il the body is immobile and apparently dead hut but the tile muscular sense vision D and especially hearing retain their powers in part if not in whole in the lethargic state there is complete insensibility of the skin and external tissues the third or somnambulistic is in the one made danilli familiar tar by lecturers and charlatans there is insensibility to pain but a quickening of the kasea uses to a high degree and a remarkable Aar pening of the tile powers of tile mind it is claimed by several veral fe leading of europe that tho the science can be utilized as a means of moral education dr durand professor Lie bault and dr berillon are enthusiasts regarding this idea and havi davd appealed by speech and i writing for its official adoption by tho the french government philadelphia times |