AN UNCOMFORTABLE DISCOVERY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1810, 9 April 1888, Page 3

AN UNCOMFORTABLE DISCOVERY.

When Bclentifio man demonstrate, almost to a certainty, that you can inako away with a woman by flooding her to Bleep and then. placing a little Btrycbnine or bocqb other poisonous vegotable alkaloid near her, it iB high time for justice to bc-Btir iteo'f, Beelng that a crime of thie deecrlption leaves no trace. Experiments In proof of this were lately naadß by Dr Luys, of Paria, and communicated to tho Academy of Medicine, A committee was immediately appointed for tb.9 purpose of investigating the experiments, butpanding tho publication of the report Dr Luya hoa continaod his researches, which were first ?ug:<cßted to him by MM Boaru and lJ'.>nn, of Rochefort. The doctor proves that by placing a tube filled with brandy on Iha back of a hypnotised patimit's head you can make that patient drunk. A yoang woman, a catalepsic patient, wan Bent Into a deep Bleep when morphia waa placed near her neck. When nubjacted In a similar manner to the action of hashish, while iv a state of lucid noniQambulisiß, tho woman became boisterously j >yfnl, and treated tho doctor and his pupi'a to a refrain from tha " Maecotte," Whlto ehc waa sill ein<<ing tho doctor withdrew tha tub.j of hashish by degrees, and the voice gradually fell until it died away. Tho strain was ng.iin tak;;n up when the fcubo wag brought uair the patient, and wh«n the eßaenca wqh quickly withdrawn tho woman eank helplcaaly into the anna of a etudent, It is no wonder that the learned Academy of Modicino Bhoald huvo taken stcpa to tent Dr. Luya' experiments, ami time to givo a verdict on their probabla resalta and their medico-lega,! aspectsi