Signor Hug at Adeiaide.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 27, 2 January 1885, Page 2

Signor Hug at Adeiaide.

The South Australian Advertiser of December 15, has a very interesting account of a seance with Signor Otto Hug, the wonderful medical clairvoyant, from which we would iufer that the Signor's extraordinary powers have caused quite as much sensation m Australia as m New Zealand. From the published report we make the following extracts : — While the clairvoyaut was recuperating his nerve force by a short pause between his exhaustive efforts, I entered into conversation with him regarding some of his experience m other countries, and found he had practised his powers of diagnosis with great success iv Paris, m conjunction with a medical man, who prescribed foi those patients whose infornal ailments had been discovered by Siguor Hug. Subsequently they made a medical lour through South America. He regretted that the Adelaide doctors refused to send on any patients to him as test cases, and said he had received more friendly treatment from the medical fraternity m the other colonies. In Wellington, New Zealand, Drs Kemp I and Hutchison, m Wairarapa Drs Baird and Schmidt, m Dunedin Dr Cuttree, and other physicians m that colony, as well as Drs Motherwell aud Baird m Melbourne, had co-operated with him by sending on cases for ' his' diagnosis. Signor Hug's good faith appears so thorough m all that ,he says and does, aud the accuracy with which he diagnoses, as well as the strange sympathetic symptoms which he develops when placed en rajyport with his patients, are so remarkable that it seems a pity every effort is not made to tost the nature of these curious psychic phenomena during his stay m Adelaide. By this time the doctor had studied the internal anatomy of eight patients, and had passed into and recovered from eight trances. The . effects of the strain upon his nervous system was visible m the tired expression of his eyes and four expectant patients were requested to see him next Saturday, as the doctor felt that he had taxed his strength sufficiently that afternoon. " Don't j T ou find the work very exhausting ?" I asked, thinkiug of the painful efforts it caused him to enter and emerge from the trance state, •' After the first two or three patients I have to take a rest between the other cases," he replied, i* but I soon recover trotn the effects. Even where lam affected by some ailment of the patient, it does not m geueral last longer than a quarter of an hour. I suffer more when epileptic or cataleptic patients are brought to me, aud I have had an attack of catalepsy myself, althongh my health is always good." That was what I saw aud heard on Saturday afternoon. Two or three of the diagnoses presented very curious phenomena, which do not appear explicable by the supposition that Signor Hug is merely a clover physioguomist, while the number an 4 behaviour of th.c patients placed any idea of collqsion out of the question. I will conclude by saying that what I saw was no spiritualistic Seance m a darkened room, but took place m the broad afternoon light, close tp an. open window, where the busy hum of a. city's life could be neard all around.