DANGEROUS REMEDY

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume L, Issue 7960, 12 April 1922, Page 3

DANGEROUS REMEDY

hypnosis in shell-shock

London, April 9. A most distressing occurrence has followed the visit to London of M. Cone, of Nancy, France, an authority on auto-suggestion. Recently the visitor gave a remarkable series of seances, at which he apparently effected a number of successful "cure*" The outcome was that Ladv Beatty who has herself gamed benefit form auto-suggestion, induced M. Co«e to visit the Tooting Neurological Hospital, where shellare treated. A hundred patients attended his demonstration. i ~ •\t the end of hali-an-hour a soklicr' suffering from bodily tremor, went up to the platform M Co m ade passes, and suggested to the sufferer that his tremors were unreasonable. Suddenly the pat ent uttered a P«"ing shriek, lißtau and body became contorted, and he fell writhmc upon the floor. ~„ a- \ J thwr comrades 11,0 CftC *t res of the soldier frenzy upon the «st ot * patients was n«nioit. - ,C.hrieked and il«ng hia«eh upon the floor in uneontroUable I>*teria. The doctor and sis er> ot U* hlStitUti °s 7X »n oufof them, and Ladv BuiU% u the hall in distress. M. <~<»ue a> luptly clojed^demoi^rfttioi..