Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1908 — SEL-HYPNOSIB NOT UNCOMMON. [ARTICLE]

SEL-HYPNOSIB NOT UNCOMMON.

Perjury May Thus Be Committed Bays an Expert. “There are thousands of persons suffering from the auto-suggestion ,or as it is comonly known, self-hypno-tism," said Dr. Quackenbos to a New York Mail reporter. *Ad’ writers and window dressers are responsible in a measure for the prevalency of the disease. A case of self-hypnotism is curable, says Dr. Quackenbra, if not chronic, and the only way to treat It is by putting the patient to sleep and talking to the soul. “I have treated hundreds of cases •uto-sugghstion, and nearly every'instance nave secured a permanent cure. You see some persons get into their heads that they have injured in a railroad accident and will go into court and unintentionally perjure themselves. “Having faith and confidence in a person one can be made to do almost anything, the limitations of possibility being unknown. A person can unconsciously fake the symptoms of any disease. how take, for instance, the Christian Scientist. His patients believe in him and that they are going to be cured, and they are. Then there is the quack doctor who tells you through the advertising columns that for $5 he will effect a permanent cure for you. All you have to do is to go in a certain room in your home at a certain hour and he cures you by long distance. “The ’ad’ writer puts things before the public in such a way that persons who are susceptible to auto-suggestion read the advertisement, believe themselves to be afflicted with a disease, and they send for the medicine which the shrewd ’ad’ writer tells about After they have used a number of bottles of the remedy they believe themselves cured. “I believe, too, that the population of the earth will be regulated by auto-sug-gestion.”