A PARISIAN CRAFT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1641, 20 August 1887, Page 2

A PARISIAN CRAFT.

4 The inhuman hypnotio experiment made reoently on a girl m a lton'i cftge at Paria appears to hafe had the itine stimulating tffect on the Fronoh wbloh the taßte of human blood ia laid to have on tigers and hvionaa, Everybody m Franos bai begun to make ex. perimeDts, m evory village the hypnotieer grains francs and laurels, and m every Paris drawing r )om the aaooeiior of the thought.readur praotiojs on fair patients The experiments have, however, now been carried to Buch an' extent that they cease to be harmless diversions and are becoming a real danger, against which M. Le Roux, m one of his interesting letters ia the "Temps," raises the voice of ! warning. He points out that the " pro* fe*»ors " are common charlatan*, who m their experiments with member* of high* class soolety select some nervous girl or woman as their " subject." He oalic upon tha polios to interdiot these aeanoot , the rage for whloh has extended to Italy, Austria, and Germany;