HYPNOTISM AS A CURE FOR DRUNKKNNESS.

Press, Volume XLVII, Issue 7528, 18 April 1890, Page 2

HYPNOTISM AS A CURE FOR DRUNKKNNESS.

• _*-One who -Ijelleves In 'mesmerism" writes as follows .'—Reading yfitJr* article on the above subject in your last issue takes my mind back to my girlhood, when I was usually in the worst of-health, and hail it hot been for the influßiice exercised over mc by a friend who possessed the ! power of mesmerism, I fear I should not ! to-day have been able to pen these few 1 lines.?: .' ."" "'■""■'■'■ ': ■" 0 In the first Instance, I suffered terribly with that most aggravating palh--»the toothache; tn fact, On some occasions it ..ai-Se&a- though I had really gone oat df "my senses. Bud it was only for this friend to know that I waa in such a. state; he would exert his mesmeric Influence over mc, and while this existed my pains .ceased. ...... Again my teeth got so bad, With fchiseonsfain teaching, and the use of supposed remedies, that it was decided that several*, of them should be drawn. I could not, however, bear tha though, of it. My nie.meric friend was told of tills, and «he said hewould make it all right for mc. He.put mc into a hypaofcio state, tho dentis. came to the house of my parents, drew out my teeth when I knew nothing whatever about it, and afterwards asked •nelf "I were ready for the operation- I put-ay tongue round my mouth for the fiurpose of feeling the unsound teeth, and o my surprise they were gone, and not I the least pain had I experienced all the tin.., though about were taken out. t . . , *: j I should like to say before concluding, 1 however, that the mesmerise forced mc, aa

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