THE EFFECTS OF IMAGINATION.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1517, 26 March 1887, Page 3

THE EFFECTS OF IMAGINATION.

A writer m the " Woodvllle Examiner" sayn : -Milnor Stephen and hia doing* h^va been recalled to my mind by reading In a Home p par of the experiments of a number of French physichns. Theß« gentlemen (men of the highest standing m their profession) have bi?en working on tha imagination of a number of peoplo I with the monfc extraordinary results. • Their method,' it Booms, • waa to m«nm-. rise the patient, then tell him such, lu.u^b wore true, whioh In point of fact wore not true. But the mesmerised patient be lleved the statement, and m every oaoa the result ho expoctod followed. In aoveral instances blisters were produced on the flubjpot's body, by simply binding a pioca of piper up>n the opot. The mostnorlsed uub]*9ct waa told a blister h*d boon applied, and the efteot cimo to timo m dae coura<\ la one instanoj several attend mt phyaioians each placed a gammed postage etamp upon a woitun'a shoalders m eurh n plaoa that they could not be meddled with by herself. She was told she had been blistered. Then she wan Bhut m n room especially prepared f>r her, and every prnoantion was taken bo that there could be neither mistake nor deception. In the morning the sceptical ones among the dootorn oould lurily boliv.ve thetr own eyes when they found under oach postage stamp a well dt flood blister. Photographs of the woman.) shoulders, just us they were, ware Uketi A notary was railed, and e&oh doctor nnd.e an oath to the statement, these were sealed up and forwarded to the Society of Biology,