HYPNOTISM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 200, 22 August 1905, Page 2

HYPNOTISM.

fpR A DENTAL PATIENT. LADY'S TEETH EXTRACTED. The value of hypnotism **J *? ent ' or * s a substitute for chW form. Las teen the unworthy use made ol the ar- if showmen. '■ — "t °*.

An interesting exhibition of- it. utility in the place of an sumesth-Me was given at Melbourne recently br ITr E. Bonner, a resident of the city who "has, within a comparatively "short period, found that he possesses the hypnotic power the power of suggestion, cr whatever one may ehcoseto v can the mysterious and "unexplained gift. He states that he employs hfe power solely for purposes of healing and that, among others, he has a drunkard of 20 years, , standing of his craving for alcohol, and has greatly modified the paralysis with which- t young man has been afflitted almost from the time of his birth. A small party, consisting of 2Sr Bon- | ncr, Dr. E. A. Graham, and bnfe or two other interested observers, a ybinw lady who had to part -with -two of teeth, and a representative of "The Melbourne Herald" assembled' at fee rooms of Mr W. Bowen May, dentist. Grand HoteL The patient seated himself in operating chair, and the hypnotist I gently placed his hands on her head. "Now you are going into a souni ' sleep. You are feeling very 'tared;very ' tired," said he, and the lady's appearance signified her acquiescence in: his words. "Put you hands on the arms of the chair," he continued. "Sow you cannot move them. You are going sound asleep." The patient pnt her head back, ani appeared to he fast asleep. -- ,;,' "Now open your mouth wide.* The patient obeyed, and, after * V little more suggestion of sound sleep by the hypnotist, she was ready foe the dentist. - ,o" ; The first tooth came out readily,; but the second was of the unyielding tirderi being, as it afterwards proved, solidly embedded in the alveolar process. However it came out, and, even in its defeat, was the very picture of an obstinate and malignant tooth. . -: "Wake up! Wake up!" said the hyp- | notist, and the young lady sat d up, and - ' looked round at the company. Making use of what he described as §£ post-hypnotic suggestion, Mr Bonnet I said, "Your mouth will be all right; it i won't pain you." Immediately the patient -was quit* 1 well again. She rose up with a smile ] from the chair that usually, makes the ,■ boldest shudder, asked if boti-teeti. [ were out, and joked about having the* 1 set in gold. - - ~ | When questioned afterwards, 22r i Bonner said that he was without any theory of his own as to t , i powejv AD he sure of was that he'"coxud : | do it." . P.:'i I "There is just one absurd notion that ; I wish you to correct," he said. "Not-; elists and play-writers have set going the idea that when, once a person ha 3 been hypnotised he or she can be made to do anything the hypnotist wishes, becomes enslaved, in fact. It -i 3 nonsense. No one can be hypnotised-withr out willingly submitting to it; After | that the power of the hypnotist is o> cumscribed within narrow limits. But I really can give the drunkard a distaste for whisky. One man at my suggestion is sick whenever he smells whisky. I can cure vices. A furious temper in a child should be allayed byhypnotism. All kinds of pain, too, caa. be eased."

"What is the power, itself V ■ "That J do not know. It is, ; and:! have it; and that is all I can tellyou; ,.