Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1911 — QUEER CURE FOR CIGARETTES [ARTICLE]

QUEER CURE FOR CIGARETTES

Dr. Quackenboss of New York “Suggests” Nausea to Pupils and Smoking Makes Them Very 111.

_New York.—There is an alarming increase of the cigarette habit among the boys and girls of the New York public schools said Dr. John D. Quackenboss the other day. Parents have brought their children to this Specialist in therapeutic autosuggestion to effect a cure by that method. “I have never had so many cases aa. In the last three or four months,” he said. "Recently I have treated a little eleven-year-old boy and I have slbo had several little girls, who were slaves to the habit I cannot think of a more menacing evil than this, and I am doing everything In my power to stop 1L “One boy who had acquired the habit from seeing his father smoke had been smoking 50 cigarettes a day. The little boy had a horror of nausea, it was this that helped me in my Suggestions. “I pat him to sleep and then Impressed upon him the fact he would become violently ill If he ever put a cigarette between his lips. When be awakened from the hypnotic sleep he apparently had recovered from the habit “A month later he tried to smoke a cigarette, but no sooner had he touched it to his lips than he was taken with violent nausea, and, flinging the weed from him. rushed home.”