THE DOCTOR’S EXPLANATION.
A Wellington medico . writes as follows to tbe “ Post,” re Signor Otto Hug, who has wrought so many marvellous cures in this colony:—I have given this subject some thought, and come to the conclusion—after careful observation of cases sent to him-that he is simply a thought-reader, like Profesaor Baldwin. If people who have been to him will coolly and impartially consider, they will find that this theory makes everything clear. Ho puts himself into a semi-cataleptic state, which, as medical men know, may be produced at will in some persons, and then be reads tbe thoughts of the patient or his friends in the room, and proceeds to detail the symptoms to the astonished listeners—that is, he tells them what they are thinking of. I have no doubt but that Professor Baldwin could do the same thing. Certainly there is something in “thought-reading,” although that is an admission that for-a long time I have been chary of making.”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3789, 29 May 1885, Page 3
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