HYPNOTISM AT A DISTANCE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20175, 2 March 1931, Page 9

HYPNOTISM AT A DISTANCE.

gramophone record used. (tjfttfStf Hti* ■ ' j ; (Reteited Match Ist, 6.8 p.tt.) BERLIN, iSabi-tiftfy * A sensatioii has been oauied in ulrcl&j bjr the annoilhcemetit that a SveflgftU Hfta«d Doctttf Leo Thooqa had put a man into a trance at a distance of 12,000 miles by means i of & record i ' Dr. Thoma, who is a hypnotic ex* pert, was asked by an Australian- colleague to hfilj) ill 'tfGbtiiig 84 Australian farmer who was suffering from j acute melancholia. ■ .. Dr. Thoma conceived thft idea of pe* | dOfdlag words 6n & rfeWJfd, Which wete i Bpoken as if the farmer had beßti in j his Berlin consulting roottti Five W* ' cords wer« thade, fend destroyed be-1 fote Br. Thota& was satisfied thtrt tn® ifkodulatioh and yesonfthefe of volc6 J was properly reproduced, we 1 then sent ihe feedrd,' fcith a twrtraifc ef hhaself, t6 Australia, ftfld Ihe patient 'VM instttifrfced to gW® j into v the eyeSfOE ihe portrait, and per- , euade himself that ne was listening. to Dr. Thoma's "atetual vol6Si Dr. Thoma waited for two .months, and has now received a cable to the effeeti that'the fawner is eured k Ine gramophone had • eliminated the com 4 plex which was ifa tne form of depression. Dr. Thftftift believes that the experittent iri the begiAtting of a form of treatment for ner-1 vous diseases. t iiiiiiijiliijuliiiiJivi-i. . 1 .