"PROFESSOR CHARCOT has unexpectedly brought us back to the days of Animal Magnetism. He has effected some curious experiments on hysteroepileptic patients in the Salpetriere Hospital, producing catalepsy and somnambulism at will. The subject placed for a few seconds or minutes before the full blaze of an electric light, becomes fascinated. The . anaesthetic state is complete, for he can be pinched, etc., without exhibiting pain. The members retain whatever attitude is given them. The patient has become cataleptic. In vain you speak or question him. Place him in a tragic posture, the physiognomy becomes severe, and the eyebrows contract. Bring the hands together as in prayer, the visage softens and the features become supplicating. Cut off the light, the patient drops into a somnambulistic state he falls backward, the eyelids close, and If the skin be rubbed, the part will contract as if under the influence of electricity. Call the patient, he will rise up and walk towards you. Tell him to kneel and he will kneel; to write and he will write; to sew, and he will, mechanically, like a slave, the eyes being firmly closed. Sometimes the answers given are more intelligible than when the patient is wideawake, so much is the intelligence excited. Blow in his face and the subject instantly awakens, after a slight throat spasm and some froth on the lips, but utterly ignorant of what has occurred. The experiment can be repeated at will. Music—strong beil-ringing—can produce this anaesthetic condition as well asthe lights referred to; hence, the action of sound is identical with that of light. Steadily looking into the eyes will also produce the lethargic state. But this is treadingafter "Mesmer." (Translated.}

This is an interesting part of the subject. Unfortunately the majority of the public are not much acquainted with the Mental Science., as founded upon Phrenology—Phrenology with many is a vulgar" something about "bumps." They believe in. physiognomy-—i.e., the temperament, quality of organisation, disposition, and tendency of character as revealed in the face. Of the physiognomy of the head—Phrenology—however, they know nothing.. They understand the clock dial, the hands thereon, and the time indicated there and by them.; but of the nature and power of the machinery behind the dial, they are ignorant. So there are too many who care little for the cerebral machinery, its form, size, quality, and power—by which the mind animates the face indicating thereon the morning, the mid-day, and the twilightof the human soul in Time. To appreciate Phreno-Mesmerism, some knowledge of" Phrenology is requisite. The successful mesmerist must either be a keen physiognomist or a good phrenologist. In the latter case, his psychological experiments will be the most satisfactory and. fascinating. Sensitives in the deep mesmeric sleep, and who are conscious of your thoughts, or otherwise in full sympathy or en rapport with yourself, are not subjects for phreno-mesmeric experiments. The experiments with them, at least, would not be conclusive. In the somnambulistic state when the subject is deprived of consciousness, and is so far-rendered oblivious as not to remember what has occurred during sleep unless impressed to remember —in this state the cerebral organs of the mental faculties resemble a piano—when excited by mesmeric influence they give forth manifestations in accordance with Phrenology, and the experiments are most effective and conclusive. The phenomena are not the result of suggestion, accident or imagination. In the majority of cases the sensitives, as one of the general public, can have no possible knowledge of Phrenology.

It is not possible for the experimentalist to be successful in this particular department without a thorough knowledge of Mesmerism on the one hand, andPhrenology" on the other. The frequent failures which are sure to accompany a "little knowledge" have led many experiments to declare that phreno-mesmeric phenomena are either exceedingly fugitive in character, or where determined, are due to coincidence, accident, imagination, etc. I shall neither explain nor defend Phrenology here, but content myself with pointing out (that predicated on temperament) some persons are more susceptible to mesmeric influence than others. Of these, even in the sleep (and based on the same physiological conditions of organisation), some are more dull, or less susceptible than others. Persons of the mental and mental-vital temperament are more sprightly and vivacious, respond more readily to influence, than those of more stolid and less impressive natures. The former will respond to the lightest touch. In some cases, contact is not even necessary. The latter require decided and' continuous pressure before the cerebral more stolid and less impressive natures. The former organs respond. Again, the first mentioned are, perhaps, the most difficult subjects to reduce to sleep; but when fully under influence, they make the best possible subjects for all forms of mental or psychological phenomena—thought-reading, thought-transference, psychometry, and phreno-mesmeiism, etc. In the mesmeric state, under the peculiar nervous •conditions induced by it, the whole brain, especially that of animal life and sense, is in a dorman or benumbed state. The somnambulistic state is often brought about by partial demesmerisation, as in semiwaking and sleeping dreams. By this phreno-mesmeric process, certain organs are stimulated into activity—and a direction, a positive direction under the control of the mesmerist, given to the thoughts and actions of the sensitive. Some doubt the possibility of such operations, yet admit the probability of the foregoing easperiments of Charcot, based on automatic inhibition,—mechanical automatic suggestion, if you will. The greater includes the less. Phreno-mesmeric processes, antedate Charcot's suggestions, and are superior to them. The former produce results, when the latter inevitably fails. By the former, we have direct communication with the brain—the organ of the mind; by the latter, mechanical and inhibitory suggestions are indirectly conveyed to the brain, and automatically responded 10. By the former we have a living sensitive being, in a certain state of mental exaltation, giving forth some perfect manifestations of such psychological state.

In the latter, you have a degraded tool, a helpless piece of organic machinery—a marionette, "pull the strings and the figure moves."

The phreno-mesmeric process is as follows.:— Put your subject in a deep unconscious sleep. As you can demesmerise or stimulate a leg or arm into activity, recognise the fact—the same can be accomplished with the brain, consciousness can be restored partially or wholly. The mind, directed by the influence of the operator, determindedly applied to the organ of the faculty desired to be aroused, by touching the organ or organs which you desire to affect, almost immediately the arterial blood is attracted and propelled with greater force through that portion of the brain; the faculty, or faculties, 'become exalted, or inspired. Excite "Imitation," and "Language." Foreign languages will be repeated verbatim, without hesitation or flaw, the subject having no knowledge of the language thus employed. Excite "Language," "Tune," and "Mirthfolness," the subject will probably sing some amusing and witty song. Excite, "Language," "Veneration," and "Spirituality," the face of the sensitive will be reverential, devotional, and floodedwith hallowed light; while his invocations to the Deity will be most impressive and devout Excite "Destructiveness," and energy, activity, possibly passion and temper, will be manifested. "Acquisitiveness" will indicate a desire to have; while "Benevolence" a desire to give. The special direction of either will depend upon what other organs are excited in unison therewith. To allay the cerebral excitement, blow steadily on the. organ or organs affected, Drs. Elliotson, Braid, Spencer T. Hall, Mr. Atkinson, W. Jackson, Sergeant Cox, and others, paid considerable attention to this branch of experiments. Dr. Spencer Hal is naturally the authority whose experiments were to me the most interesting. Many of "thesewere carried out upon persons in the waking as well as in the sleeping condition.

Two or three instances will suffice to illustrate this part of the subject. During some public experiments given by the writer in the Queen's Hal, Bold Street, Liverpool, about eleven years ago, one of the subjects kept time to the music by a lateral movement of his head. Desirous of testing the effect, I instructed the musicians to make a noise—in discordant musical notes, made in rapid succession, without rhythmic connection. The subject ceased to move his head, shuddered, and looked painfuly distressed. . On asking what was the matter, he replied he had a severe pain, in his head, pointing at the sametime to the organ of "Tune." On directing the musicians to play the "Blue Danube" waltz, the lateral movement of the . subject's head commenced again. The discordant experiment was tried' once more, with similar but intensified results. I was now quite satisfied. I blew upon the organ, and eventually carefully de-mesmerised the subject, and released him from all further influence that evening, reserving him afterwards—according to my usual practice—-for phreno-mesmeric experiments only.

In every Instance the natural language of each faculty was perfectly, and most beautifully manifested under influence; also in a way, 1 believe, not possible to the sensitive in his waking state. Captain John James, in writing on the matter, says:—"An uneducated man for instance, may, for the first time in his life be thrown into the mesmeric sleep-waking state, and the operator, by;touching, and sometimes even by merely pointing at, the organ—say of 'benevolence—may cause the sensitive to exhibit mortal.. signs of that particular sentiment, so that he may appear to fancy of dream that he sees before him some pitiable object, which at once awakens his interest and compassion. If "combativeness" be touched he will immediately show symptoms of anger, fancy he is quarrelling with someone, evince a desire to fight, and may even strike his mesmeriser; fan or blow over the excited organ, or touch..,'benevolence,' and his anger immediately subsides. Should 'combativeness' and 'destractiveness' be very small, the excitement of the organ will often, lead him to imagine that some one is trying to quarrel with him; neither the expression of his countenance nor his actions betraying any feeling of anger"

He further adds:—"The most interesting results. in these experiments take place when two or more of the organs are simultaneously excited, when you will probably observe such beautiful combinations of graceful attitudes and facial expression, as would be well worthy the observation and study of a first-rate actor."

It frequently happens that a successful mesmerist may have no knowledge of Phrenology. As such he would fail in these experiments. It also happens that many very able phrenologists are not mesmerists, or, being mesmerists,have neither time nor disposition to use their powers, so that the foregoing class of experiments have fallen very much into disuse.

Personally, I am satisfied that in the majority of cases, the mesmeric touch will convey, adequate stimuli, in someway to the localised nerve-centres of the brain, and is the true cause of the phenomena, the response in all cases depending upon temperamental condition and brain-development of the subject. There are some cases where the will of the operator '"is communicated to the subject by the means of the touch and it may be possible that both touch and the will, combined may affect the sensitive; but seldom is the' result produced by will alone.

I have successfully affected patients through a third person,' my medium for operating, and the person operated on, being equally ignorant of the phrenological locality of the faculties.

The subject deserves the fullest and most complete investigation. It is mentioned here in the hope that it may stimulate the study of Phrenology,

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