STUDENTS HYPNOTISED

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 112, 17 November 1928, Page 20

STUDENTS HYPNOTISED

BEFORE; EXAMINATIONS, How- young Cambridge men -had been hypnotised before . examinations 'and had their passed them'with flying colours was told in a lecture 011 hypnotism by Dr. D. N. Buchanan, a young Cambridge man, at the; British -' Association at Glasgow recently, reports an English newspaper.^.'' We. got. people before an examination,',' ho said, "and hypnotised theni as deeply as possible and then told them they would be able to do everything they wanted to do more easily.d'nd..acc.uratelyr'and'.quickiy than over before.. .A- person hypnotised' to-day coiiitj be.'tWdto'scnd you a-post card at 3 o'clock to-morrpw-^rwhen the. trance would, havq.r.been lifted-—and ho would send.the ea.d^but- forgot that he had done : so'immediately afterwards. I have "nVacjLc.; people dp; many' strange. things 'like' that,' But.they, would: no.t. do some, things against "their, better nature, 'such;"as. _kiir-someone .with ,a.. knife." . . '" Pcoplo who."w,ore"blind -or.-deaf or paralysed in, -somo .functional way ..could bo ■. permanently-;cured.. ..Scores of sol-, diors blinded. :through>-'shcll-f.hoisk "had been, cured. • ' lii such cases fthcj' could not see because -they'made .10- actual effort to do soj'thc thought of.blindness being- uppermost- in their' minds, and, this epulil bo oratli.cat.gil..by hypnosis.,'1 .' Stammerers■wci,o...oft.ei> cured, iiiid.it. was probably.'que pf.-'t'hc-;best methods of .treating- drug;and alcoholism obsessions. ; A Calcutta' surgeon used to. do all his operations under hynosis. Novelists and poets, had beon found to produco the same quality of work under hypnotism, and thoy did it riiorc quickly and more easily.- .