Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1911 — RESTORING A LOST MEMORY [ARTICLE]

RESTORING A LOST MEMORY

Cure In London Recalls Jersey City Dynamite Explosion Caze—“Hypnotism" Not Used. London. —The case of a young woman In Jersey City, who received such a shock by the tremendous dynamite explosion on February 1, that she lost all memory, and was lately hypnotized into a consciousness of her former self In a Poughkeepsie hospital, has been duplicated here In the case of a man named Macrae, who, with complete loss of memory was taken from Westminster workhouse and experimented on by Dr. Haydn Brown.

Doctor Brown began by suggesting to Macrae while in an hypnotic Btate the simplest actions which he knew to be identified with his life before he lost a knowledge of past events. On the fourth treatment, Macrae exclaimed: “Everything Is coming back; a whole mass of things. I remember everything up to two years ago. I feel as though I were coming out of a dream.” Doctor Browndoes not use the word "hypnotism” In his treatment, which Is Introduced by an apparatus be calls the monoscope, by means of which he suspends the Influence of the conscious state. It is a small black mask fitted on a spectacle frame. There are no eyeholes, but two white dots where the eyes should be. The patient has to concentrate his attention on these white dots, and think <of nothing else. And the two white dots become one. "It limits the Ideas to ‘oneness,”* Doctor Brown explained. "The patient becomes so sick of oneness that his consciousness falls into abeyance. He Is conscious, but does not want to be bothered with anything; he makes no active thought or active muscular action —just as when you first awake In the morning. And in the subconscious state your senses aye far more alert than in the active; tho faculties are six times more alert” Paychotheraphy has undoubtedly a great future in all cases of haiinnination. epilepsy and nervous disordsrs of every kind.