Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1895 — REVEALED IN A DREAM. [ARTICLE]

REVEALED IN A DREAM.

How a Doctor Di* gn owed * Case and Cared Hi* Patient. One of the most unaccountable ad■ventures in the phenomena of the lives of the physicians ever recorded was related by Dr. Charles Bockman, of Astoria, L. 1., at a meeting of the American Medical Society in this city Tuesday afternoon. The scientific men present were much interested in the strange freak of nature the practitioner disclosed. They believe it new and valuable evidence regarding the much-dis-cussed opinions on the conditions of the mind or brain in sleep, which is also a subject of strong human interest “It seems to me,” said Dr. Bockman, after introducing the subject to his listeners in a formal manner, “that it la a truly remarkable occurrence when a physician makes a clear diagnosis of a mysterious malady In dreamland. Yet I have'done so—and done so to my utter amazement When, purely characteristic instinct I examined into my dream and found It as a spokesman of fact I was stricken speechless, but since I have come to the conclusion that the phenomenon is not mysterious or even strange. I was called to attend a little baby suffering the most rigid spasmodic convulsions, the cause for which I found Impossible to discover. I first saw the poor little infant on Sunday and by Tuesday had become perfectly nonplused as to what to do for it, further than to administer temporary relief. I thought of nothing else than the poor little one’s sufferings all day Monday, and retired that night with the child’s remarkable symptoms mentally photographed on my mind. "Tuesday morning when I arose I had been to see the little patient in a dream; had discovered the trouble and conceived a simple treatment for its cure, which I had administered with entire success. Upon calling at Mrs. Lockwood's, the child’s mother, this morning, I stepped to the corner of the room in which the cradle stood, and raising the infant’s foot observed the little rosecolored spot I had seen in my dream. In an instant, almost before I knew what I was doing, I drew a slender pointed lancet from my pocket and quickly punctured the spot, when out came a needle three-fourths of an inch long, head first”—New York Morning Journal.