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Santa ' i.ii s should put no gold in
Mr. Bland 1:) stocking.
SViiai -on. oi .1 candidate for presi
deu vvouid SantaClaus make?
'In:: Lexow committee has remove;!
Richard Croker as a presidential possi
bility.
Tiik Indiana boy who hears with his
lingers would be right in Class A as a
burglar.
It is understood Dr. Pickiu does not
care for au acquaintance with Harry
Hay ward.
It is setting quite the lad in the Twin
Cities to have nothing in the hangiug
line except double hangings.
Pugilism is gaining on football again
as a method of putting able-bodied
young men in their graves.
Tut; yacht race between George Gould
and the Pi nee of Wales seems to have
dune it. The Goulds have Moated into
New York's 400.
Hauicison has once more declined to
run for president Nobody would know
Ben was alive unless he boohed up this
way occasionally.
By ail means, lot Ilayward's whis
kers grow. He should be hauled by the
whiskers half an hour before being
banged by the neck.
Tin-; vote of Chicago is unanimously
against the Eiiiritsh labor agitator, John
Burn?, who calls th« Windy City "a
pocket edition of hell."
The volcano on the island of Am
btyin, in the Hebrides group, is in a
state of eruption. Sympathetically. Tim
Reardou's niuuih is iv a similar condi
tion.
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat sug-»
g> >ts that the Republican candidates
for the chief ottiees in 1836 ha taken
from Maine and California. Why not
Minnesota and Texas?
Thk Chicago Times has developed
Into a great newspaper once more. The
brains and imstle of its new editors
have landed it at a bouud in the front
rank of American dailies.
Bor Ixoeksoll is hooked at la~-t. He
intimated that lie would believe lh«re
was a hell if Missouri ever went Repub
lican. The Jola (Mo.) Register now de
mands that he redeem his pledges.
Judge Woods and President ("love
land both write too much. The judge
could bave improved udoii his 20,000
words by saying: "Mr. Debs, six
months in jail;" and Mr. Cleveland
couid have said laconically, "1 pass."
Rri>i)v-FAci,i) John J. Furlong, agri
culturist, politician and [rood fellow,
will not feil in the legislature, after all.
A recount of the ballots in hb district
of Mower county elected Mr. Allen, his
competitor, by fifteen plurality. It is
hoped Mr. Allen is also a good fellow.
A facetious Northern Minnesota
member of the legislature suggests that
the capital of the state be removed to
(„: raiid Kaoids, because it is nearer the
geographical center of the state than
St. Paul, and because the people up in
Itasca county are more skillful at log
rolling,
A contemporary, after saying that
"nothing derogatory" can be ?aid of the
gentlemen or the Civil .Service league,
styles them "chtomc kickers,"' tbeir
president a persistent ofticeseeker, and
the whole lot a pessimistic set or wail
ing and weeping Jeremiahs. We await
au explosion of spleaa in our cointem
porary which will indicate its id«-a of
what "derogatory" siatemeuts are.
A SHORT time ago the good voters of
the stale were solemnly assured that if
a certain candidate for governor were
elected capital would leave the state,
and we would be reduced to a state of
destitution. Now we are credibly in
formed that unless our mortgage laws
are changed what capital there is in the
state will leave it and none will come in.
What between J'opulistic candidates tor
governor and mortgage laws enacted by
the Republican state legislatures, it
looks as if the slate were going to the
"demiiition bow-wows" with a fatal
celerity
IHR Point OF VIKIW.
The conclusion men arrive at from
a consideration or any subject de
pends very largely upon their point of
view. The two knights in the old
story found that their contentions were
useless when they discovered that the
shield about which they were 1 quarrel
ing was red on ono side and white on
the other, and that it was, in fact, both
a red and a white bhield, The pointof
view is very often a matter of occupa
tion, and the habits of thought that are
formed iv it. Thus it occurs that there
la frequently a radical difference in the
points of view of the lay mind and the
lenl. mind; of the man who looks at
tin- matter in hand with a mind accus
tomtd to view affairs from the stand
point of the ordinary business man, and
that of the man who is trained to re
gard matters with the discriminating
and technical habits of thought bred by
a profound reverence for precedents
and a deep respect for '•points."
Illustrating; this are the different atti
tudes of lawyers and judges on the one
hand and ordinary business men on the
other with regard to reasonable rates ot
freight which may be charged by rail
roads. Tho lawyer, who may also be a
judge, will say that the rates of freight
should be, as a matter of right, fixed at
a figure that will enable the company,
operating the road, after paying all ex
penses and fixed charges, to pay to the
stockholders a reasonable dividend
upon their investment. In ease the
question is one of competing roads, and
the complaint of one is that the into
fixed by or for the oilier is too low; that
the lower rate road is taking away its
freight, thereby preventing it from
earning money «rherewith to pay its
stockholders the dividend in which they
have a vested right, me lawyer or the
jutljf,e from his point of view will say
that the competing road ought not to be
til.owed to thus work an injury to the
innocent holders of tho securities of the
less fortunate competitors.
That is the way it looks from the point
of view of the lawyer and the judge.
The business man, who has bad a more
or less varied experience in competition
with his fellows, as lie reads this opin
ion of the legal fraternity, wonders what
there is in railroad property that in akes
it so different from others, and why
should it be shielded by the court while
his business and that of his fellows is
left to the operation of the law of the
survival of the fittest. In his line of
business, in which he has invested all of
ilia capital, there comes a competitor
who enters the contest with appliances
purchased at i reduced cost, or. per
haps, utilizing some invention which
greatly decreases the cost of production,
and lie sees no oihsr way out of his di
lemma except to either go out of busi
ness or adjust his procosses to new con
ditions.
That this may involve a large sacrifice
of invested capital, the throwing out
into the junk pile of machinery repre
senting a large investment, and its re
placement with new, he regards as sim
ply one of tha exigencies of his occupa
tion. Were lie to go to some lawyer
and complain that he could not comuete
with bis neighbor at the prices which
his neighbor was able to make and ask
an injunction restraining his competitor
from selling at such reduced prices, his
lawyer would tell him he knew of no
law apulicable to iiis case.
The lawyer might not be able to ex
plain to him why the business of a rail
road was any more sacred than thai of a
manufacturer, or why the stockholders
of a railroad company were entitled to
receive dividends, and bo protected
from competition which would destroy
or diminish these dividends, while the
stockholders of the manufacturing en
terprise were entirely remediless. If
he were to attempt to explain it. it is
probable that his explanation would be
altogether too refined to bo grasned by
the ordinary lay mind. The business
man would probably go back to hi s vo
cation with an enlarged idea of the
beautiful intricacies of the law, but
with an unsatisfied wonder wiiy i here
was a law for one kind of business that
did not apply to another.
A.XOTHEU SI.UGGBK SLUGGED.
Some things are utterly incomprehen
sible to soui o people that are clear as
daylight and just as natural to others.
Souia peopie cannot understand the
mental or moral make-up ot men who
will stand up before each other in a
Drize ring and maul each other accord
tug to the rules of tiie ring until one has
slugged the other into insensibility.
Nor can they understand how other
men can pay big admission tees to go in
and see the lulu, for fight it is, however
us adherents try to soften It with the
title of a "manly sport." And it is
equally hard for tills first class to com
prehend the avidity with which so many
people read the press accounts of the
ring contests along with the murders,
which are interesting in proportion to
their ferocity, and take such enjoyment
in the more or less, and usually more,
salacious suits for divorce and breaches
of promise.
It is probably just as difficult, on the
other hand, for the latter kind of people
to appreciate the distaste of those of
the first class for the things they so
much enjoy. If they wore to express
their opinion of them, it would probably
not be complimentary and would re
flect on their intelligence, and might
even question their sincerity. They
look on them as pityingly as we look on
the blind, to whom is denied the sight
of trio pleasures of scenery—where, in
deed,they comprehend that a person can
feel a revulsion at prize fights and other
exhibitions of the animal in man.
A month or so ago one man hit his
opDouent in the ring a blow on the chin
til at caused a concussion of the brain
and a speedy death, In England re
cently a similar occurrence happened,
and now the press reports another prob
able death from a like blow received in
a contest yen :>y an athletic associa
tion in New Orleans. A little above
these exhibitions in the social scale are
the brutal contests of the game of foot
ball, whose maimed and lamed viitims
parade their wounds on almost every
college campus in the country, and of
which we have been hearing so much
recently.
And the press moralizes on it in its
editorial columns, and the ministers ful
minate against it in toeir pulpits, and
e<jisl itutvs prohibit it and councils
pass ordinances against it, and occa
sionally a governor orders out the mi li
lia to stop it; and still the brutal sports
goon un'iiminished, and the number of
people who take delight in them is not
perceptibly decreased. The gladiator
today is as attractive as he ever was in
the arena. And what is that portion of
society to whom all this is so shocking
going to do about It? Protests, denun
ciation, enactments, are ail unavailing.
The majority are against them. Tne
people who approve are as at least two
to one to those svho disapprove.
It only illustrates the fact that "it
takes all kinds of people to make the
world" of people. It shows how very
6low is the uplifting of humanity. It
teaches at the same time the need and
the futility of humanizing education.
It reveals the slow processes of nature
hi working out the great design of hu
manity. The barbarian, the brute in
us, is tenacious of its hold. It yields
with discouraging slowness to the forces
of progress. But there is progress.
Any survey of the past and comparison
with the present aHi mis this. Viewing
the present only, effort set-ms futile;
viewing the results of accumulated and
prolonged effort, heart is gained for a
renewal of effort. The only held for
work is with the young; the old are be
yond reach. Surround the children with
humanizing environment. Spend less
time in teaching them how to die and
more In how to live. In this direction
only lies the retno«ai of conditions ail
must lament.
THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOTiE: SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 17, 1894 — TWENTY -FOUR PAGTC&.
:-: Hypnotism and Its Relation to Crime. :-:
None are more bigoted than infidels.
The science of a generation ago was
proud of its infidelity. Without a dem
onstration in (acts it would believe
nothing; nor, indeed, beyond its nar
row physical range did it desire to see
anything, to know anything:. No Span
ish padre in Mm train of Isabella, no
exhorting captain of Cromwell's pray
erful warriors, no hadji at the well of
Zem-Zem, was ever blinder to enlight
enment, more invincible to argument.
In the opinion of tnia scientific omnis
cience, astrology, witchcraft, magic,
omens, premonitions, spiritualism, clair
voyance, mesmerism, personal magnet
ism and ghosts were alike ridiculous
and incredible. These alleged phenom
ena could not be brought under the
microscope nor submitted to the rule of
three. They were therefore impossible
in both the English and the French
sense of the word. This arrogant,
bigoted devotion to the purely physical
exhibited none of the lofty ideality of
that pure, if uninstructed, soul who
exciat&ed "I believe it, because it is
impossible!" These scientists were "of
the earth, earthy."
1 test limit Truth could not, however,
lone endure this degradation. The
things undreamt of by iiuratio existed
nevvriliuless. They will always exist:
nor will ignoring them obliterate them.
Science accused Religion of believing
too much, but Science herself believed
too little. To fall by dark into a ditch
and believe it a well may not be sensi
ble; to ignore that you are in the ditch
because you cannot see it, is scarcely
iiiur« reasonable.
The rebound of this great intellectual
movement has, perhaps, already «oue
too far. We have become as fond of
mysteries as a priest of Thebes. We
believe all that our grandfathers be
lieved, and much that those venerable
men would have ridiculed. As childreu
around the dying tire, we must have our
tfliost storius before we sleep. Solemn
London editors gravely describe the
mysterious pictures that present them
selves in a ball of crystal to the eyes of
the editors' female friends. The editors
themselves cannot see these pictures,
but, of course, they exist. Nobody
would deny that. Thought transference
is an established fact. The young man
reflects uitrhtly upon the superexcel
ieuce of his fiancee, and he is sure that
Marie smiles responsive in her dreams.
The virtues of faith cure are self-evi
dent. Only beliova that the forceps are
made of sponge, and you will never
know when the tooth is cut.
But the greatest of these new beliefs
is hypnotism. Its growth bids tair to
divide the nation. From recent events
it would seem that some Democrats
have already disappeared, and soon
there will be no Republicans. The
"iniquitous doctrines" of the Hypnotiz
ers will be assailed ore long la the na
tioual platform of the Hypnotized.
Everywhere intrudes the hypnotic
"suggestion." We may think we paid
a delicate compliment to the rector, but
tii c wife of our bosom put it into our
head. Little Reginald was "thinkin' of
them Christmas presents rigbtalong."
But to th« criminal, the condemned of
man, comes the new doctrine as a
heavenly aid. The glories of iisanity
are past. It is not now conceded that
Mr. Brown, of i'psilanti, who killed his
neighbor Rogers, should be at once dis
charged because th« town records of
Boston recall the incarceration of an
ancestral Brown "forasmuch as lie was
distraught of his intellects."
The new method is much simpler,
much easier. The cashier robs a great
bank systematically for years. He was
perfectly honest himself, but was under
the control of another man, who got
most of the money. A scoundrel slays
an innocent woman through a hired as
sassin. The actual murderer had the
best intentions, but he cou'd not help
adopting the elaborate plan proposed by
the hypnotizing villain. The plan was
known to intelligent men, but they were
"hypnotized," and could no.t warn the
victim. Various girls elope with mar
ried men, but they are "model young
ladies" under hypnotic influence.
If all these things are true, anarchy is
already upon us. bins Sins and J oliet
are our proper universities. Matters,
however, might be exaggerated—by the
other newspapers. A late inquiry among
prominent local representatives of tho
medical and legal professions has been
most reassuring. The following com
munications exhibit the true nature of
hypnotism and its possible relations to
crime. The articles set forth the most
recent and approved views upon a dif
ficult and complicated subject, and ex
emplify the heights to which have risen
the sciences of Galen and Triboniau,
PROF. W. XAVIER SUDDUTH.
University of Minnesota.
In answer to your letter of inquiry re
garding the relation of hypnosis to
crime, would say that 1 no not consider
that there is any relation, and in proof
i>t my position cite the fact that hypno
tism is as old as man and has been
known as far back as Biblical record
goes- The Egyptians also were familiar
with it, and so have been all modern
nations; but in all this time, so far a3
my knowledge extends, there has not
been a single well-authenticated case
on the criminal records of any country
where hypnosis has been used to coiu
del any one to commit any crime, not a
single case where a pre viously virtuous
woman hns been led from the path of
virtue, nor any individual swindled out
of money by means of hypnotic sugges
tion, nor do I believe there ever will be.
Hypnosis is not a condition like ether
or chloroform narcosis, but a mental
state into which the individual volun
tarily enters. No one can be hypno
tised against his will, nor be kept in the
hypnotic state any longer than he is
willing to be. The Idea that many per
sons have that only weak-minded people
can be hypnotized is entirely false. The
best subjects I have ever had have been
this best educated and possessed of the
strongest wills. All that is necessary
for such people to do In order to become
subjects is to desire to <\\i>erience the
sensation and put themselves in a stale
of absolute passivity.
Idiots, insane people and skeptics can
not be hypnotized. In order to be a
good subject a person must first be will
ing—he must have will power sufficient
to will to do as he is told, and last, but
not least, be must possess faith in the
operator.
Mo one can bo hypnotized who do.-s
not know that he is going to be.
The process is purely one of suggestion.
There is no mysterious fluid that passes
from one individual to the other.
Neither is it a condition of paralysis,
in which the individual is unable
to resist the will of the operator.
The suggestion of acts to a person in the
hypnotic state that are contrary to his
ideas of right and wrong will always
meet with failure, and if the sugges
tion is persisted in will cause the indi
vidual to awaken. Constant repetition
may, as iv the waking state, educate
him iv the premises, but a person iv
the hypnotic state is less susceptible to
criminal suggestion than ho wuuhl be
in the waking condition, for th» reason
that in the hypnotic state nil sense of
material relations is set aside for tho'
time being. The personality of the in
dividual la not, however, materially al
tered, only Modified, partially domi
nated hy the will ol another for the time
being, but only in so far as his own
ideas of rieht and wrong are not seri
ously crossed. Any strong countor
cturent of ideas will break the relation
ship nnd arouse him from the. hypnotic
state.
Furthermore, there must be a condi
tion of absolute sympathy and confi
dence presented in order to secure' the
best results. Faith in the ability and'
good intentions of the operator is an 'es- 1
Mattel element in hypnotism. No sane '
person would go to sleep with a burglar
under his bed if he knew it, neither
would he permit a rascal to hypnotize
him. The sensational stories that go the
rounds of cheap literature regarding
theft, arson and murder committed in
the hypnotic state, by reason of that
state, are the creations of diseased
minds. Unless a person is a thief or
murderer at heart, he can no more be
made one in the hypnotic than he can in
the waking state, in considering this
subject, however, it must b» remem
bered that there are people in the world
who are negatively virtuous and gener
ally well behaved—people who are good
simply because they have never been
tempted to be bad. Such persons,
tempted either in the waking or hyp
notic state, might or would fall
simply because they have no In
dwelling force of character. Such
people are only safe in a cloister or be
liir.a prison bars, and there, in my esti
mation, is where a considerable portion
of the inhabitants of a village in a
neighboring state should be placed. If
wo can believe the accounts in the
papers, an innocent man is being perse
cuted at the Instigation of two hysterical
girls who have the power of throwing
themselves into the trance state. The
days of Salem witchcraft are being en
acted over again. 1 have never seen
anything yet in my fifteen years' study
of the subject that has led me to believe
in telepathy, and I fully concur in the
opinion of Judge Bailey as to the ad
mission of •'hypnotically" secured testi
mony in court.
The basis of hypnotism is suggestion,
and this may be given in the waking as
well as the hypnotic state, and need not
be by word alone. Anything that stands
for an idea to the mind of the indi
vidual is sufficient to produce the
effect. Suggestions in the waking
state sometimes produce epidem
ics, as in the middle ages, when
men, women and children were carried
away by the miliion with the idea of
of rescuing the Holy city. Epidemics
of crime seem to spring up as the result
of some dastardly deed as the incentive.
"Lynching bees" follow each other in
rapid succession. Train robberies go
in groups, although widely separated
geographically. To sucii an extent do
these things occur that sometimes .it
seems as if people were ere atures «f im
pulse and suggestion rather than rea
soning beings.
The danger in hypnosis lies in its
abuse, and not in its use. Every power
has its good and its bad aspect, and so
has this one; but hypnosis offers its own
remedy. If, when abused,* hypnosis
may weaken the will,even as morphine,
ether, chloral and all other narcotics, rt
may also be used to strengthen the will
again, whereas'the other analgesics can
not. No one has ever diod from hyp
nosis used as an aosesthetic, while
hundreds have died under chloroform.
My prediction is that, when the atmos
phere has been cleared of supersti
tion, bigotry and professional jealousy,
hypnosis will come into general use as
an analgesic and anaesthetic To inhibit
or even limit the use of this potent
remedy for the relief of pain would be
an outrage upon the community. Far
better educate the people up to its right
use and point out the danger of its
abuse.
If it is to be controlled by legislation,
where will the line be drawn? Let me
cite a few places where it is now used.
A little child is playing with Its blocks
or dollies, aud the nurse enters to put
the little one into its crib for its regular
afternoon nap. The child does not feel
sleepy, but insists on being allowed to
finish the house he is building, but the
nurse persists, and by blandishment*
and promises ot sugar plums finally
succeeds in tretting the child into its
crib or into her lap, and then begins the
monotonous motion of rocking it to
sleep, meanwhile emphasizing the
suggestion by the low droning of the
lullaby song accompanied by the com
maud: "Go to sleep, darling—go to
sieep — sleep — sleep"—and the child
"iocs" to sleep—hypnotized.
Again, a child at its play In
some way hurts its finger, and
runs to mamma, crying: the moth
er soothes away the pain by ca
resses and diversion of the attention,
and in all probability, if injury is con
siderable, ending by rocking and sing
intr it to sleep while the tears yet glis
ten between its closed lids.
In yonder darkened chamber lies a
person suffering from that terribly
painful affliction —"a sick head
ache"—the slightest jar giving ex
cruciating agony, such as is to be
appreciated only by one who has
had it. A friend, hearing of the case,
comes in, and by gently stroking the
fevered brow soon quiets the throbbing
pulse and puts the sufferer to aleep, to
awake entirely free from pain.
A person suffuringifrom an acute neu
ralgia, caused an by exposed pulp in a de
cayed tooth, calls upon me at my house in
the evening. I apply some simple house
hold remedy, and, by a tew gentle but
firm passes over the face in the painful
region, suggest freedom from pain, and
send the sufferer home to pass a com
fortable night in sleep, instead of walk
ing the floor, as many a person has done.
A prominent man, whose voice, no
doubt, will be heard in the halls ot our
legislature the coming winter on this
subject, if it comes up, recently went
to a "painless joint" and had twoachiiur
teeth removed with odontuader, or
something of a like nature, and after
wards suffered intense neuralgia. He
Bought me at my home just at dinner
time. 1 applied topical remedies, but
failed to relieve him. I finally suggested
hypnosis, and, placing him upon a
lounge in my study, soon had him
asleep, and left him to rest until 1 could
tret my dinner. On returning I found
him awake, the pain having oeen #
stronger than my au^estiou to sleep
I again hypnotized him, and remained
with him, finally securing immunity
from the neuralgia, and sent him home
to a quiet night's rest, a firm believer
hi the efficacy of hypnosis as an anal*
gesic.
A lady came to the late clinic at
the university with a tumor of long
standing, the removal of which had
been a constant dread, undermining
her health and inducing morbid nerv
ous symptom*. The tumor was
successfully removed under hyp
nosis, and the patient subsequently
treated for her nervousness.with marked
improvement and promise of final cure
A woman stiffenmk from a known
heart lesion, who had permitted her
teeth to decay to the jjum line tHjcauso
an anesthetic had been inteudicted by
hei family physician, presented for
treatment. She proved a K<x>d subject,
and had a lance number of badly dis~
eased teeth and roots removed under
hypnosis, waking up vvitli a smile on
her face, having been perfectly obliv
ious to auy paiu, and remained free
from any subsequent bad effects of neu
ralgia or shock.
A man suffering from hysterio-er>i
lepsy of several years' standing
presented for treatment. {Suppur
ation of the antrum and frontal
sinuses was diagnosed, and, as these
cases coutraindicate the ordinary an
aesthetics, hypnosis wan used in the
presence of several physicians with
absolute success and tubes placed in the
several sinuses. The operation was
followed np by the use of suggestion in
the treatment of the epileptic attacks,
and, although the case is still under
treatment, every indication points to a
cuie. The epileptic seizures are
under full control, and all internal
Medication has been dropped these
many days.
A woman in the fifth month of a
"vomiting pregnancy," with other
serious complications, wasted to a
shadow, and only existing on three
quarters ot a grain of morphine
daily, administered hypodermatically,
was put under hypnotic control, and
the morphine stopped at the second
sitting. At the third site was taught to
hypnotize herself. The vomiting was
treated L*y suggestion, as well as some
other annoying complications, and the
patient remains to this day, nearly one
month since the first treatment, free
from the use of morphine, a"iid doing as
well as .could be expected of one iv her
condition.
A large number of stammerers have
also come under my treatment, with
varying decrees of success; none,
however, witnout improvement, and
several have been dismissed as
cured. In the licht ot tlie above expe
rience, of which the cases cited are only
examples, is it strange that I should be
a firm believer in hypnosis as an anal
tesie and an aim-schetic in the treat
ment of neuralgia? The following
clippiug from the New York Evening
Post very clearly sets forth the present
status of hypnosis in its relation to med
icine:
The extent to which therapeutic experi
ments in hypnotic suggestion are exciting
the attention of physicians and awakening
the interest of the general public may be in
ferred from the fact that during: the past
year more than 100 books and brochures,
especially devoted to the discussion of this
subject, have been published. One of the
most valuable of these is the small volume
just issued by Bong, in Berlin, entitled "Die
Bedeutuug der Uynotischen Suggestion als
Ileilmittel." The author. Dr. J. Grossman,
editor of the Zeitschrift fur Hypotismus,
prints communications from thirty of the
most eminent professors and physicians ot
Europe, firing the results of their experi
ence in the application of hypnotic sugges
tions to the healing of disease. Thus Van
< .'edeu and Van Reuterghem. of Amsterdam,
report that from May 5,1557, to June 30, 1893,
in the institution under their charge, 1.098
patients were subjected to the treatment;
of those £8.28 percent were entirely cured.
2&6!) per cent permanently improved, 21.02
• per cent slightly bettered, 17.81 per cent
unaffected, and in U.lB per cent of the
cases the results were unknown. Dr.
Wetterstrand, of Stockholm, has used this
method of medical treatment in 7,000, and
Dr. Bornneim, of Nancy, in 12,000 cases, and
both express themselves strongly in favor of
it. Indeed, Dr. Bernheim does not hesitate
to declare that the study of Hypnotic sugges
tion should be made obligatory in all medical
school?, and that nowadays a physician who
ignores the psychical element in disease, and
has no knowledge of the part it plays in
palhogeny and therapeutics, is no better
than a horse doctor, and should confine him
self to veterinary practice. Another impor
tant point brought out by Dr. Kraltt-Ebing,
of Vienna, is the influence of "a utosugges
tion" in the production of disease. The
number of ailments and morbid conditions
of this) kind, that have their origin in the
nervous system, and are indicated by pains,
paralysis and other symptoms of hysterical,
hypochondriac and neurasthenic affections,
is astonishing. Although not merely i mag
inary complaints, they cease with the re
moval of the "autosuargestive cause," which
may be effected by any change of scene ban
ishing it from the thoughts, or by heterosug
gestion (fremd-suggestlon) on the part of a
physician, who may impart it verbally or in
the disguise of a dose of medicine. In obsti
nate cases, in which the autosuggestion is
firmly entrenched in mental imbecility, su
perstituiion, morbid appetites and passions,
inveterate habits, or abnormities of charac
ter, recourse must be had to hypnotism. That
the great majority of mankind are capable of
being hypnotized is shown by the experi
ments of Dr. Freihorr yon Schrank Noizing,
of Munich, on 5.705 persons of different na
tionalities, of whom only <> per cent proved
to be entirely unsusceptible."
The following paragraph is taken
from a letter of mine published in the
Minneapolis Journal:
"I have observed from a perusal of the
literature on the- sub ject that nearly al! the
work done so far has been in the direction
of investigating its value as a therapeutic
agent, rather than as au an a-sthetie. Tiie
special line of work that I have been and am
still engaged upon is its application to sur
gery, upon which little or nothing has been
written. The value of hypnosis as an anal
gesic in neuralgia has long been known.
That I entered uuon the work with consid
erable trepidation is shown by the fact that,
although I have been a close student of the
subject formauy years past, aud have uieJ it
in my private practice, yet I bad never given
a public demonstration until last year. I
cannot do belter in closing this letter than to
quote the opening paragraph of the first
paper I ever wrote upon the subject: "The
liae of detnarkaiiou between the sublime aud
the ridiculous, between the mysterious ana
the miraculous, Between belief and iucredu
l.ty, between respect and diversion in this life,
is so narrow that to espouse auy causa that
is not woll understood, or in at verges on tne
occult, is really dangerous to oue's reputa
tion; and la treating of hypnosis I should be
vain Indeed did did I expect to escape the
lot of others who have iv the past essayed
the role of interpreters of ibis ruueh-abused,
but Httle understood, science.' 1 The clinic
at the -U." while ruuulng. daily demon
strated its value as au amesthetic. It was
fitting that a dental clinic stiould bo the first
10 take the lead in the maUor, us dentistry
has always b'en in the front rank iv ex peri
meiu with aiuesthetics, and with excellent
results.' 1
I As to who can use hypnosis there is
no limit. All are more or less suscepti
ble to its influence. All that the hyp
notizer can do is to direct the course to
be pursued,and the result depends upon
the Individual. I have taught a great
many persons to hypnotize themselves,
to their great benefit. When it is fully
understood that it is a mental state and
not a physical condition, ana that no
one can bo hypnotized against his will,
then tho dread that some good pcoDle
have of it will cease, and hypnotic sug
gestion will come to occupy th • place it
deservedly should among household
remedies.
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As to whether the law recognizes an
alleged hypnotic influence, under which
a crime was committed, as being a de
fense fur the party charged with the
commission of such crime, 1 will say
that, so far as the existence of the con
dition called hypnotism is concerned, or
whether it exists as a condition or as a
fact. lam unable to state. From what
is said about it ami written about it, it
aDpears that some people have the fac
ulty of producing on others an influ
ence called hysterical or hypnotic, un
der which the subject apparently ap
pears to have abandoned all self-power
and self-consciousness, and to be en
tirely under the domination of the op
erator.
But so far the law has nol, recognized
the existence of any such condition;
that is, it has not been satisfactorily
proven ift any court of justice, to my
knowledge, that either tbe operator
possesses the alleged power, or that the
subject can be entirely subordinated to
the will of the operator to the extent
that it is claimed that he can—that is, so
as to produce an abnormal condition in
which the individuality of the subject is
completely wiped out, and he or she be
comes the more instrument of the de
sires or wishes of the operator.
Now, I say the law does not recognize
the existence of that condition; there
fore, up to this time, there is, so far as 1
know, no adjudicated case which holds
that a defense based upon a theory that
a criminal act was committed by one
because of and while under the power
of hypnotic influence can be sustained.
I very much doubt whether such a de
fense ever will b« sustained, because I
do not tluiik the law will ever recogniz ■
a hypnotic condition as a defense to a
criminal act committed by one who
claims to be in that state when so
committing the crime. Neither would
the law recognize, without a direct
statutory enactment in that behalf, a
criminal act committed by the operator
in the hypnotic suggestion. In other
words, to make it plain, if it should be
claimed that the operator hypnotized
the subject, and then, while the subject
was under the influence, suggested to
the subject the commission of a crime,
which such person so under the influence
should then proceed to commit, the legal
consequences would be, very likely, that
both of them would be indicted for the
crime and both Dunislied as principal
and accessory both before and after the
fact.
You now ask me whether the hypno
tizing of a person against his will,
winch results in the mental or physical
injury of the person so hypnotized,
would be considered in law a crime.
Under the penal code of this state there
is no provision that will reach such a
e.ise that lam aware of. As this state
has abolished common law jurisdiction
for crimes, and nothing is a crime unless
so specifically designated iv the statutes
(and we have no statute upon the sub
ject of hypnotism or occult Influence),
there could be no charge predicated upon
the hypnotizing of an individual, pro
vided the subject consented to the ex
periment; but if it should be proved iv
court that such a thing as hypnotic in
fluence existed, and that a person was
hypnotized against his will, thereby
producing a physical injury to him, 1
should think that certainly, under the
common law jurisdiction, and, perhaps,
under our penal code, a prosecution for
assault might be maintained, for it has
been held that the administration of
anesthetics to a patient against his will
do's constitute an assault.
Speaking generally of the subject, the
most remarkable thing connected with
the so-called hypnotic manifestations is
the resemblance which they bear to the
old theories of witchcraft, both in Eu
rope and iv this country.
The alleged case of hypnotism re
cently occurring in Eau Claire, and the
manifestations of the hypnotic subjects,
as reported in the Globs on last Sun
day, are remarkably similar to the man
ifestations of witchcraft delusion as we
read them, both in the histories of Eu
rope and of New England. The state
ments of the two girls in Eau Claire
concerning the Influence of J)r. Pickin,
and the hysterical or cataleptic con
dition which they ascribe to his in
fluence, are almost precisely the same
as the manifestations of witchcraft aud
the charges made against those unfor
tunate people that are alleged to have
practiced the art In New England dur
ii.sr the early history of the country.
When you add to this the sympathetic
symptoms between the two s-irls, you
have, if you choose to call it so, a case of
witchcraft or possession produced by
witchcraft, or absolutely similar symp
toms; and it is a very remarkable thing
that in tiie year 18U4, at what we consider
the acme of our development in civili
zation, progress and culture, we should
find ourselves confronted with a condi
tion, or popular delusion, which has
heretofore been entirely ascribed to the
ignorance and superstition of former
ages.
You ask me if a confession or testi
mony obtained under hypnotic Influence
could be used in a court of law, or would
the procuring of a confession under surh
circumstances be a violation of personal
right. The entire value of a confession
rests upon the eireumstamces under
which it is obtained. It must be volun
tary, and not induced by undue influence
of any kind. The mind of the party
confessing must not be overcome Liy any
influence such as threats, or hope of re
ward or of escaping punishment. It
therefore follows that a confession
obtained from a person who, it
is conceded, was at the time unable to
contiol his own faculties, would be
worthless, nor would a person under
what is called hypnotic influence be
permitted to testify in a court of com
mon law while in that condition, if such
condition were known to the court. 11 a
person BeSerinf under temporary or
permanent aberration of mind is dis
qualified as a witness, so would a per
son be who waa under the influence
either of narcotics or intoxicants to such
an extent as to atlect his judgment. If
you once assume that a person can be
placed under hypnotic influence and the
law should recognize it, it would cer
tainly disqualify that person from testi
fying while in that condition.
•
HON. CHARLES E. FLANDRAU.
On the subject of hypnotism 1 know
nothing, and do not suppose any one
knows any more than I do, therefore 1
will say nothing about it.
As to whether the plea of having been
under hypnotic influence at tho time of
the commission of a crime would be re
ceived by a court as a defense, all I can
say is to Quote a very familiar principle
in criminal law, winch is that intention
is Mm gist of oil crime. No ohm can be
guilty of a crime unless lie perpetrated
it knowingly. Responsibility for ciime
depends wholly upon intention.
A familiar instance of this principle i
is the. plea of insanity, if the party is '
insane when the act is committed, he is \
not himself, is not impelled b\ his own i
reason, but by some delusion thai clouds
bn mind and destroys his will. .So he j
is not held responsible for his act.
If any one person possesses the power
of absolutely controlling the actions of
another (which [seriously doubt, unless
such other is so mentally diseased as to
be generally irresponsible), and should
by such influence and power impel such
person to commit a crime. tii«?n, of
course, the one exerting the influence
would be the criminal, and not the party
performing the involuntary act. This
is on the principle that he acted without
intention on hi* part, but by an irre
sistible impulse exerted by another.
Whether courts will accept any ex
pert evidence on a matter of this kind.
1, of course, am unable to say; but. in
the light of experience, science and
common sense, I think they should be
very careful In listening to anything of
the kind.
Charles E. Flasdkau.
DR. W. E. HALLOWELL.
A great deal of nonsense has been
printed in the daily press lately about
hypnotism, «nd people generally seem
willing to set hardly any limit to the
powers of the dreadful individuals who
"influence," in accordance with their
own sweet will, any and everybody with
whom they come into contact, and be
fore whom neither virtue, life nor prop
erty is supposed to be safe. If one may
judge by the tone of the press in the
:.ews and editorial eolutnus,an epidemic
of hypnotic crime is threatening the in-
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teerity of society. It is even pro
posed to appeal to legislation to
protect a helpless community against
these dangerous persons, and, strange
to say, by a law forbidding the class of
men least likely to misuse their power
-namely, physicians aim dentists- to
induce th« hypnotic state, leaving the
man with the "evil eye" loose among
the people.
As a matter of fact, there Is nothing
j more mysterious about hypnotism thai:
: there is about any scientific subject, ol
j which our knowledge is incomplete.
Indeed, the vital point in the subject
I is not the hypnotic sleep at all, but" th«
j "sufgeattoa;" and by suggestion wear*
: all influenced, and constantly. It you
! t«ll any one something, he is inclined tc
I believe it. or. if he is told to do some
i thing, he is inclined to do it.
The intensity or this inclination de«
pends upon the character of the individ
ual tiiat receives the "suggestion." and.
to a smaller extent, upon the manner in
which it is given. If we see* ther
mometer registering 30 deg below
zero, we are likely to begin to feel cold,
even though we thought it a line morn
ing a few minutes before. We
have all been told that there is
a man in the moon, and prob
ably most of us have seen him: but
Were we all to draw what we see,
how many of the pictures would be the
same? That it is possible to make a
well man sick ny repeatedly assuring
him that he is sick is well known. In
normal sleep a mind is still more open
to such an influence; and people half
asleep will do almost anything the} are
ordered to do; only, if it be a compiN
rated action, they usually awake be
fore fully accomplishing it.
Ordinary sleep itself is induced large
ly by an autosuggestion, as when a per
son that is not at all sleepy goes to bed