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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1951..

STRATEGY IN THE 'MED': WHAT IT MEANS

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ALLIED strategy in the Mediterranean is concentrated on keeping belonging to the Western Powers. Malta and Gibraltar are still key points of defence. Soviet satellite States border Greece and Yugo open vital shipping lanes and safeguarding the oilfields of the Middle slavin, Russia's outlet to the Mediterranean from her Black Sen. East. Along the North African coast lies a chain of sea and air ·bases) ports is through the Dardan elles(London Express: Service).

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IS HYPNOTISM A

MENACE OR A MYTH?

21

GATORS

anybody do anything

against

ManyShare Attlee's Disability

(BY A DOCTOR) ·

London, Mar. 28. TXELL over half a mil-

Wllon nien in England

and Wales have shared or are sharing with Mr Attlee the unwelcome experience of suffering from a duode- nal ulcer.

The treatment of this common disease and the closely related gastric ulcer ("peptic ulcer" is the group term for both), is a heavy charge on the National Health Service, and the economic loss is equally great. In a group of one hundred men it may be ex- pected that 88 working days will be lost each year due to this disability.

Duodenal ulcer, like coronary thrombosis,, is a disease which has become much more common in the last twenty or thirty years. During the nineteenth cen- tury it occurred most often in young women:

now it mainly affects men, the age of greatest incidence being 45-55. During the last war the rate of dis- charge from the Army on account of peptic ulcer was 300 times what it was in the 1914-18 war.

The gastric ulcer is unknown. The

cause of duodenal and

duodentum consists, of the first

of

ATCHED by

Ralph Slater, Peter Casson, I were a hypnotist I'd make my He used two inter-fanfic)

and many others declare that: boss give me a words

£1,000-a-year horrified crowd, a preters, his

being CHINA MAIL "You cannot by hypnosis make ·rise." slightly dazed translated from English in-

INVESTI- ir moral and spiritual code." evidence

Could you really do it? The conflicting. One young man sway- to French and from French SPECIAL ed on the 100ft-high para into Greek.

SPOT- For instance, they imply you well-known London psychologist

tannot make a modest girl un- says: pet of a theatre while fire-

In Britain thousands of LIGHT THE CRAZE dress in public. She would resist It is a well-accepted fact that few inches of the small intestine, men climbed from the

suggestion, and probably you cannot by hypnotism per- and it receives from the stomach men and women are hypno- THAT IS

FAS. the

have hysteria.

sundo a man to do anything he the food which has been partial- street to his rescue.

'tised every week by a score CINATING THOU But learned observers are not would not be inclined to do nor-ly digested in that organ. It is not When they got him or more of well-advertised

sure this in true.

mally, somewhere in his sub-clear whether the amount In the Medical World in conscious sell.” down, it turned out the master minds" who tour SANDS IN BRITAIN

hydrochloric acid formed in the January 1950 Dr Alexander On the other hand, Andrew stomach has anything to do with young man was Peter Gib- the music-halls, the cine-

HHHH Cannon said:

Salter,

a hypnotist who has the origin of an ulcer, but quite bings who, complaining of mas, the civic centres, and

"It is true that most indivi- carried out extensive research cortainly the acid delays healing bad headaches, had been to night clubs.

stantly fall asleep, and awaken duals will resist criminal and in conjunction with doctors, de- when an ulcer is present. when the music stopped.

Immoral suggestions; but it is clares: Those who speak of the visit hypnotist Paul Goldin

Lesser lights in their But she apparently, did not quite possible for clever necessity for hypnotic sugges- in his dressing-room at the hundreds perform in pub hear

the restricting phrase hypnotist in the course of tion to fit in with the subject's Empire Theatre, Dewsbury, lic houses, in village halls, some months later when in a sistance."

"during this performance," for time, to break down this re- moral code should revise their Yorkshire, one December and at private parties.

concepts," music shop she heard the faint He quoted case histories of But what boss, at a direct morning in 1949.

Among the top-flight sounds of the tune coming from girls who had been hypnotised approach, would sit quietly irritating the ulcer, hence the Goldin, who was only 21

while you put him to sleep? at the time, put Gibbings operators there is no tric. a gramophone record cubicle and then violated.

the perfor- and she promptly fell asleep in :the arms of an astonished into a trance and told him kery about

IMPRESSION from needed.

that when he woke up he mance and no stooges are anlesman. would be free headaches and would feel

on top of...

"as if he were the world."

When Gibbings came out of the trance ho anid his headache had gone, thank- ed the hypnotist and left the theatre.

a narrow drainpipe.

AP

NO IDEA

Had she been driving a car equipped with radio when the serious tune was broadcast a

been accident might have caused.

PART from choosing, the

Dr S.J. Van Pelt, president of more easily hypnotised the British Society of Medical members of his audience, a Hypnotists, tells of the case of a atage operator generally young girl who was hypnotised has no idea who his sub- during a stage performance and made to cry for her mother at a jects are.

given signal.

A little later he Was It might be the local "But in the excitement of the "making a perilous climb up bank manager who is seen rears of applause which greeted making passionate love to the girl's behaviour the hypnotist a folded overcoat in the probably forgot to withdraw the suggestion, and for 12 months belief that it 18 his afterwards she had inexplicable favourite film star anxious flis of crying and depression. for his amours.

QUEER WAY

THE hypnotist afterwards explained: "His sub-con- scious mind misinterpeted my 'top of the world re- mark as an instruction to climb."

It might be a magistrate and staunch teetotaller who joins the group of riotous "drunks" who have reached This, then, is one exam that state on a noggin of ple of the queer way in water described as "whis which the mystery power ky."

of hypnotism works, prob- ably never fully under control.

You can forget Svengali

of the magnetic mind and

the mystic passes....

That was mesmerism, and it's out of date.

The moderna, up-to-the- minute cult of hypnotism which today has become a highly profitable and popu lur craze is the product of # snappy, streamlined technique which, it is freely claimed can be so easily mastered that anyone can do it.

no

nor

The hypnotist needs no link with the occult, rare and inborn gift, even a commanding voice or figure.

Ho may look like a Laurel or Hardy, a Jewel or Warriss, your next door neighbour—or you.

NO BAR

Of self-hyp- notism: "It i

A

extremely useful for person to be able at will abolish pain, our e himself of in- somnia, ron- dor himself deaf to dis- turbin

ng noteo In orgave hi

Inclination to work, and eliminate stage fright and

other

crippling forms of solf- coneclous+ -

nese." Dr E.

B. STRAUSS,

St Bartholo- mow's

Has-

pital, London.

It might be you who

after the in-

terval-rude ly shout "non- sense" on

for off

the rest of the show

by

DANGEROUS

THUS we see," comments Dr

Van Felt, that a foolish suggestion implanted by a stage his own hypnotist to gratify vanity, and 'amuse and instruct

Hypnotism

ic

mani- of pulation the imagina. tion, which is "stronger-than-

will-power.

Anyone can learn to hypnotise,

About 95 percent of the popula- tion are captible. to hypnotiem.

One in four

be hyp- notload Into

can

the deepest state. Or 8. J. VAN PELT, president, British Society of Medion | Hypnotists.

Other CX- perts point out that sub-

jects may be

plies to a young man who DOUGHLY, the same thing ap-

made to pt-

wants to know whether he cạn fend

against the legal and hypnotise a giry into failing in moral code if love with him instead of with

his rival

the

Gugdes-

HUNGER PAINS

One of the main objects of treatment is to prevent the acid in the stomach from perpetually

advice to eat little and often, for in this way the acid will be neutralised.

Patients with duodenal ulcer often complain of hunger pains when their stomach is empty, and it is a characteristic of the disease that "food" relieves the pain. Bo

sides dietary treatment, simple

drugs to neutralise the acidity are tions are put The psychologist says: "The also indicated, aluminium hyd- in such a way young man couldn't do it unless roxide and magnesium trisili. us to imply the girl in her normal self was ento being two modem variations that the pro- already desiring to fall in love of them. posed action with him."

is the right or momat ......thing to da

While the pain of duodenal

But again other exporte point ulcer is usually nagging rather out that it is common in medical than intense, there can be serious hypnotism to implant ideas into complications, X-rays will give Under hyp- the subject's mind. So if a girl valuable information about the girl in a hypnotic trance were told type of ulcer present, and in sitting astride that a young man bad virtues some .cases.surgical treatment a board will she was known to admire, she may be necessary.

through would accept

mosis,

ling violently

if told she

this statement as

"

all the 10 fact, and the impression might tion about the reasons for the There has been much specula- thons of pedal- last for years.

rapid increase in the number of Although it is perfectly true patients with peptic ulcer. Two engaged in a that the power of hypnotism has well-known London physicians bbcycle rate; Umits, in the hands of an un-have recently tried to find out then sitting in scrupulous person who can pick whether particular kinds of work the audience, set in motion & a chair she will drive most care- his subjects and knows how to tend to cause ulcers. They were chain of thoughts which led to fully through city traffic, operat dress up evil

unable to confirm the commonly innocent ing most realistically the non- cloak of good, hypnotism is open conductors are particularly prone suggestions in a held views that bus drivers and near-insanity in the victim."

existent car controls.

to grave misuse. The girl was ultimately cured If told, when in a room full of

to this disease, and that irregt- Take the case of a taked, yet larity of meals and shift work by a medical hypnotist.

The British Society of Medical People, that she is in her bath-

and be unshakable, alibi the dream of are predisposing factors. room and must bathe Hypnotists have tried, unsuccess ready to go to a dance within every big criminal. fully, to persuade the Minister of half an hour, she would have

WORK ANXIETY Health to ban stage hypnotism. nothing unseemly to resist.

For Dr Van Pelt-in common

to

with other medical men who Recently, at a private party order of the have studied the subject-states in the West End, an amateur

master definitely that anybody

challenged can hypnotist was mind," thus

learn

to hypriotise, and stage carry out this experiment. demonstrating hypnotism mostly emphasises

With the aid of a hypnollst, one investigator carried out a

On the other hand, foremen striking test. Wells, he wanted

Although he was in Tunbridge and others holding responsible "evidence" positions in industry were found to be specially susceptible. These that he was in Landen at L pm. doctors concluded that "anxiety last Thursday.

over work (as opposdă to worries The hypnotist called upon two the power of not

value the curative

Ho gave instructions to a girl of

who had fallen into a deep of his patients--independent and at home), or personality factors post-hypnotic hypnosis but its highly danger-

who had leading to anxiety at work, are suggestion, ous and sensational possibilities, trance. In complete accordance respectable

And now, as the craze for with accepted hypnosis pheno- been deeply hypnotised before unduly common in subjects with

He hypnotised each separate- mena she believed herself to be selected for stage hypnotism sweeps through disrobed, and sat down on the ly.

anties many practitioners, both lay floor, going through all the.. by a simple and medical, have let loose

motions of lathering, washing, UNACCEPTED but spectacu- Blood of popular. literature, re- and rinsing before giving herself

Subjects are

these

of

One

RACHMANINOFF

!

WonCi

duodenal ulcer."

It la common knowledge that the stomach is closely linked with the emotions; anticipation

of something unpleasant leads to "a sinking feeling which are this gentleman by name, you, often the very words an ulce

lar device, sulting in detailed "How to do a vigorous towelling with an To one he said: "You know

The hypno it" books costing only a few invisible towel. tint invited the shillings. members

is so comprehensive that the audience freely popular book which sells to clasp their the author even names the drugs: hands above which may be used to aid hyp- their heads.

nosis in difficult cases, and

do

symptoms.

have seen him before, and last sufferer uses to describe his Thursday he sat near you in the --Cafe at lunch,

"You particularly remember RACHMANINOFF, the famous

pianist and composer, wrote him because your order for lamb He adds, of course, that they most succesul con- chop, was refused, although he

certos as the wesult of hypnotism. get one. You were annoyed."

one other, he said: "At ten Rachmaninoff lost confidence

in the

To

The highly-strung individual is particularly susceptible to ner-

not ho develops a duodenal ulcer vous indigestion, but whether or will depend on both his consti- tution and environment.

challenges them to only be used by qualified. During a period of adversi2nutes to one on Thurson and For their ulcers to heal patients i

doctors.

YOU

He then unclasp. "You cannot he declares..

octor the amateur requires is in himself, and although he had were on a bus whom you knew need mental as well as physical Many cannot unloose their fingers. Some grin sheepishly, complete self-confidence and the undertaken to write a concerto this others look annoyed. Most look ability to learn by heart the he

he-could-not bring himself to by mystified.

necessary palter and process,

For two years he did nothing a cach, he brought the

had:

few

You

will.

book you rest. up a work.

changed "victims then have no HE can, it is said, operate

words about

Not so long ago patients dis- THE PLUNGE

until he was induced to see

Το

trance by telephone or radio. allemalive but to go on to the

charged from hospital after Dr Dahl, who had gained some to a close with the words; "Toti treatment

wore exhorted to At least one responsible stage to be released - £5

hypnotist then chooses.

PALPH Slater, who claims to local fame with "miracle cures will now forget that you have keep strictly to an uninspiring medical hypnotiat, Dr. Alex-

most under his influence, have hypnotised more people Day after day Dr

Dahl put been ander Cannon, claims to Some can be so completely than any man living, and Rachmaninote into a hypnoile but hypnotised by me today. diet and an exciting life but, have been successful by janesthetised 's that: a' largo-mir- widely regarded both in Britain traned, and: impressed him' with 'Horta ARAMAT76 – 1005, cagir, and ambitiouem, 1000); } the Lancet rocondly said, "It the When

la umwomommble to expect a seat.. needle tàn be passed and in Amerton as the ace stage the will, to

work, repeating

cross-examined the“:: the forearm without hypnotist, bluntly:

* suggestion that composing would lowing day, both women gave such se many ulcer patients There is nothing personal to come.assion and easier, and that evidence in support of the albi to load a frustrated vegetables striking demonstrations me in my methods of hypnotiam, when completed the concerlo y The fnvestigator,, (an, aspiri= gzisterice."

Ana renuit, Rachmaninom bespectabilk

to ompono Poxala, his cerity would be

and the concartok, was i

means of a gramophone

record..

Language itself is ap

· partntly no bar, for it impress

people with and the

technique generally has woukt be at the highest equality bene Bering Tivortez gold lax - Test mowicide The Stal art.

or

young Cardif ::woman was, bed character of the brain' once more became Brilah courge @ocopied any is the only safe way to recuperi

another

recorded that Potor Cas the extraordinary, and almost nothing to do with the person

tion is by diet and rest, but tho stage hypnotist, fighting, power of hypnotiem son, the when he was a naval petty told, on the stage that, after

time may come when some glans. the necessary paliel officer during the war, suc- awaking from the trance ahi confidence, hypnollem and self- completed her could have forced Frum duber, contrain, vil baked to cessfully hypnotised a non- would return to her friends in hypnotism can do taught to all The work was dedicated to the story of the fake but prevent the dyspepsia with

hypnotiam in not yet used, or commonly reboots the stomach English-speaking Grook at the audience but that every and mundry. It is like swimming. Dr Dahl, out of stude

resation to overtalt nerves.rea The organist played the quos take, the drst plunge and if you talls to a barman about accepted In British courtan Alexandria, Egypt

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