IMAGINATION.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1561, 29 March 1887, Page 3

IMAGINATION.

A writer in the Woodvillo Examiner says ;—Milner Steephen and his doings have been recalled to my mind by reading in a Home paper of the experiment of a number of French physicians, These gentlemen (men of highest standing in their profession) have been working on the imagination of a number of people with the most extraordinary result#. “ Their method,” it seems, “wbb to mesmerise the patient, then tell him such things were true which in point of fact were not true. But the mesmerised patient b: lieved the statement, and in every case the result expected followed. In s evoral instances blisters were produced on the eubjeot’s body, by simply binding a piece of paper upon the spot. The mesmerised subject was told a blister had bptn applied, and the effects came to time in due course. la one instance several attendant physicians each placed a gummed puslag: et’mp upon a wonun’s shoulders in each a place that they could not be meddled with by herself. She was told she had been blistered. Then she was shut up in a room specially prepared for her, and every precaution was tabn so that there could be neither mistake nor deception. In the morning the sceptical ones among the doctors could h irdly believe their own eyes when they found under each postage stamp a well defined blister. Photographs of the woman's shoulders, just a* they were, were taken. A notary was called in, and each doctor made an oath to the statement. These were sealed up, and forwarded to the Society, of Biology.