Show Hypnotic Therapy Credited I With Curing Amnesia Case NEW YORK CITY Hypnotic therapy has been credited with restoring memory to a New Roch- Roch Rochelle Rochelle Rochelle elle housewife hou ew e who apparently had been suffering ring from total amnesia for the past nine years The patient was Mrs Emily Nor Nor- Norton Norton Norton ton 26 mother Of f two young chil chil- dren She was reunited in New Rochelle with two of her brothers who arrived from Braddock Pa her former home which had been I erased from her mind I Details of the cure were told by Dr Nathaniel E. E E Selby who placed the young matron in her hypnotic state He said that when she came cameto cameto cameto to him last Thursday she could re re- remember remember remember member nothing of her past save that she had fainted faulted on a street in Philadelphia in 1942 was unable to identify herself and started life anew as a waitress Four years ago she met and married John A. A Norton in New Rochelle They had two children Robert 3 and Melaine aged 1 1 Fearful of delving into her past she had told her husband she was I an orphan She came to Dr Selby for diagnosis and treatment of headaches The said that under ordinary ry questioning Mrs Norton could remember only the names of and Braddock Pa Dr Selby communicated with I the Braddock police They told him an Emily had disappeared dis dis- disappeared disappeared appeared in 1940 and had never been found The family consist consist- consisting consisting consisting ing of father mother four broth broth- brothers ers and a sister were dubious after having checked so many fruitless clues But they told the doctor Emily had a small scar on her fore fore- head When Mrs Norton visited him Tuesday Dr Selby saw the scar It was then that he hypnotized her and he said she sad bad a full return of memory except that some some details of her past between 1940 and 1942 still remain to be cleared up |