Hypnotising Drunkards

Evening Star, Issue 8530, 1 June 1891, Page 3

Hypnotising Drunkards

San Francisco, March 20.—Senator Jameß Fair, the father of Mrs Herman Oelrichs, and perhaps the richest man on the Pacific Coast, has two sons, James Jun and Charles, who have been, to put it mildly, very wild boys. When James Jun came out two months ago from the German Hospital, where he had been seriously ill on account of excessive drinking, some friends talked to him of Dr Brown, the hypnotist, who was said to have performed wonders with an opium-taker ; and after a great deal of persuasion he was indaced to pay the hypnotist a visit. Brown knew bis man, and exercised his will power upon the palate of tho heir apparent to millions. Fair was kept under hypnotic influence for several hours, and when he was brought back to a conscious state he was told by the healer to go and drink no more. The admonition was unnecessary. He could not drink. He made a vigorous tffort, but failed. The liquor acted on him as an emetic That was six weeks ago, and he has not tasted a drop since. Before this he had to be put to bed five nights out of seven. Young Fair then took his younger brother Charles to Brown, and he too was put under the spell In his case it also worked like a charm, and he developed an intense dislike for liquor. He told the ' World' representative that so sick of liquor is he that the swinging doors of a saloon fairly nauseate him. Thtre is no happier man on the coast than Senator Fair.