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LOW'S INSTITUTE IS HOT ON THE JOB COLLECTING THỂ NATIONAL VIEW OF THE CRISIS. THE QUESTION PUT IS WHAT DO YOU THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD ́

DO OR GO FISHING?,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1948.

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certainly. The British worker has a heart of gpid-right on top of Sn unsatisfied stomach.

B.MA.

No. Stalin couldn't fry in on hand. The doctors would refuse to co-operata

COMMUNIST MARTI Now That The U.S. has occupied W. Europe,purged the press and Secrefly murdered Affiae, wa must look to the breat Soviet democracy. etc., etc.

THE SOG:

Wosser use? wosser use? The only way to raise Britain's prestige

is To Tell the world" were busted.

WHAT

COL.BLIMPI

Gad. Sir, never! Churchill should inite Franco to join the Cabinal, the working classes should be interned and we must ensund peace by dropping

Atom bombs on something

ALICE OSTRICH

Don't know.

UP THE PUBLIC-OPINION POLL

JT

Once

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THE DRUG TO CURE JEALOUS HUSBANDS

By Sidney Rodin

It costs them

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EASTER ATTRACTIONS!

JEALOUS husbands can now be cured in

London's Harley Street. from 10 guineas to 100 guineus, depending on Saturday, 27th March how stubborn is thoir, distrust of their wives. This is the latest une psychiatrists have found for the "truth drug" pentothal, sodium cvipan or sodium amytal-which, the other week, at a Newcastle hospital restored the lost memory of Mr Dennis Bennett, a 22-year-old ex-sailor.

A husband who suspected his wife of an intrigue asked her to undergo a test by the drug when she protested her innocence. She con- sented.

A shorthand writer took down her answers in the presence of the husband. She revealed her innermost secrets under the influence of the drug injected into a vein in her arm.

After several treatments the husband was at last convinced of her fidelity.

. Another recent case satisfactorily settled was that of a man who disputed the paternity of his child.

IS THE TRUTH ABOUT

HAT has the ancient science of hypnotism lo offer the modern world? The subject is being widely dis- enssed following the birth of a baby under hypnosis recently,

Few people realise that in hypnotism we have the key to the mind of MIIN, and the answer to the great problem neurosis.

Thirty out of every hundred

· people suffer from some form

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and cases,

une

HYPNOTISM?

by Dr. S. J.

Van Pelt

Fortunately, hypnotism can mal again. Nine years later he give results in an hour that is still perfectly well. „might take three hundred hours..

of psycho-analysis.

Hand paralysed CONSIDER the case of "John."

Of

Apparently a mírucle? course not; just a very typical case of hysterical paralysis, often met in practice.

The condition closely mimics real disease, so that we may get blindness, deafness, loss of voice, stammer, paralysis, tre-

People who can act as their own alarm clock are always the most strong-minded, which illustrates the

next point.

Contrary to popular opinion, weak- willed people do not make the best subjects, although hypnotism can be used to strengthen will-power,

for

In this way, bad habits, such as drug-taking, excessive drinking and smoking can be caslly overcome.

Let Joan" ilustrafe this point you, a girl who suffered from anxiety neurosis, or "worry sick- Normally Intelligent, although rather highly strung, she came close to a complete nervous breakdown na

a result of strain durkrig the war,

and worry over a private affair.

Severe headaches, Insomnia, palpl-

tations, and nervous tremors consed her much distress.

She could not concentrate

and

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Three partners of a famous The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels, Ltd.

aris antique firm flew

to

London to consult a psychiatrist because of a series of thefts.

The junior partner was sus- pected of being implicatede be- cause he had been unable to give a satisfactory account of his movements.

Under the "truth drug" he revealed that the unexplained part of his story concerned a woman whose friendship he had wished to conceal.

the His statement proved to satisfaction of the other two he could share no men that blame for the missing antiqures. Pentothal, evipan and other barbituric drugs were first used as anaesthetics.

WOMAN'S DISCLOSURE

noted

BECAUSE he

that

mora, fits. and even loss of nearly lost her position. Taking patients talked unguardedly

give them up.

of nervous complaint, be it only simple insomnia, nervous head-

This young man, beginning a career in the Navy, found to aches, or worry.

his horror one

day that his Approximately half the hos right hand had suddenly become pital beds arc occupied by paralysed. psychiatric

many sleeping tablets had become a Ordinary treatment could do memory.

Hysteria is definitely not regular habit, and she could not specialist estimates-that-nt-nothing-and-ho-was-about_to_be_

the Service shamming. The patient may lenst 50 percent of any doctor's invalided

on suffering for years practice is the result of when he agreed to try hypno-

unless the condition is recog- tism. "nerves."

He was easily hypnotised in nised and properly trented. Modern psychiatry finds itself a few minutes, and told that unable to cope with the situn his hand was perfectly normal, tion. Tedious processes such and would always remain 80. as psycho-analysis often take On awakening, he found that weeks, months, or years. his hand was indeed quite nor-

from

She's German

-hand-picked

PORTRAIT

OF

A GIRL JUST

ARRIVED IN

LONDON,~.. by John Deane Potter

German

SHE is blonde.. 21-year-old Gundel Harnack. history student from Hamburg University.

SHE is a hand-picked, good German, who has just arrived in Britain for six weeks to study English democracy. Her father wealthy Pomeranian farmer. Now his farm is Polish, and he is living in retirement in the mountains near the Russian zone.

was

11

A

SHE waa ten when Hitler came la power.

You must remember that when you read her reactions to Britain. To her London Is, like fairyland, but after 16 years of dictatorship, Gestapo and war, she has outgrown fairy tales. So she does not like London much.

SHE thinks our traffic is untidy. It offends her neat German mind. "There used to be lefthand traße in Austria and Czechoslovnkin," she

sold significantly. "We altered all that."

FRAULEIN HARNACK

London disappoints her,

Ko

Changed outlook

while being injected,. Dr Ellis Stungo, a London psychiatrist, in 1984, evolved a technique for putting patients into a hypnotic state by giving them less power-

dosès.

He used the drug when per- sons, through shame, fear, or forgetfulness, withheld impor- tant facts about themselves. which could give a clue to their psychological troubles.

FTER several sessions of hypnosis¦¦ful Many so-called cases of rheu- A

her outlook on life was changed; matiam, fibroaitis, sciatica, etc., she was able to give up drugs en-

Head are hysterical in origin. Hyp-tirely, and to sleep naturally.

aches and other symptoms dis notiam provides a cure in these.

appeared. Today she is a normal Why, then, is it not used more healthy Airl frequently?

The

one essential for medical The answer is that most doc- hypnosis is that the patient should tors know little about it. Those Although hypnotised, the patient really asleep, but can hear the

he is dolust and saying.

he willing.

who

who do hesitate because they is not read and understand what after her aged parents found she

know the public regard it, quile doctor wrongly, with suspicion..

-AN

Forced to resign

NY doctor using hypnotism must run the risk of com- milting professional suicide..

The history of hypnotism is one long story of struggles against ignorance.

been

A young woman, for instance, devoted her ilfe 10 looking

suffered from depression and sleep- lessness.

To a certain extent, all helpful ons will be carried out; for Suggestions instance, if absence of pain is suge-

Under cafofully controlled Injec gested. then even teeth can

be ex- tions of the drug she disclosed thai, tracted quite-painlessly

deep in her sub-conscious mind, she In the same way

nhaled what she was doing, and wankt. childbirth can be made painless, and even major cause they denied her the chance of have liked to murder her parents be- hove operations

sometimes carried out under hypnoslo.

However, patient cannot be inde to do anything under hypnosis In 1778, all Paris flocked to which is against his own interests Mesmer,. a Viennese doctor, made to commit a crime, or give and moral principles he cannot be when he astounded that city away secrets. with his miraculous cures.

I

We

getting married,

The sub-conscious guilt of being potential murderess was the causo of her emotional upset.

The truth drug was used extensive- ly on battle-shocked soldiers. In Burma, a soldier was found running w lost in the jungle. He was gibbering and could give no account of himself.

Under injections of pentolhai, hu said he had been in a foxhole when a Jap, bristling with weapons, suu- denly loomed above him.

asked a question he does not

the patient The Royal Society of Medi- wish to answer. cine, however, refused even to either remain silent, or "wake up." SCD this in the case of investigate his claims.

"George."

who, after unfortunate war experiences, developed an ob- sessional neurosis, with an irresistible urge to wash his hands at least 30 or 40 tirney

day. Under hypnosis, he answered simple questions readily enough, but remained trembling and silent when H asked more personal details.

In England, "Doctor Elllotson, professor at London University College Hospital, who introduced the stethoscope to-Britain, was forced lo resign because he dared to cure unorthodox people by the same means as Mesmer.

Hypnotism is merely getting into direct contact willi the sub- conscious mind.

HIS GUN JAMMED

[IS own Tommy gun jammed as the Jap got ready to hurl น grennde.

wax therefore assured that he could be tured without disclosing his The ordeal had been so intolerable particular secret, and was informed to his conscious mind that nature's that whatever. was troubling him | automatte black-out had deprived would do so no longer.

nim of his senses. He was cured and

The conscious mind, with its ideas and impressions, is temporarily put at rest and the sub-conscious is open to accept and carry out suggestions It took only four sessions of made by the hypnotist within limits. few minutes ench to cure him com-back lighting in a few weeks.

Everybody Is open to suggestion, pletely.

A mere word or phrase can make a Obsessional neuroses include all waking person happy, sad, angry, or sorts of queer cases, including those 'ashamed.

of people haunted by over-recurring Yawning is notoriously infectious, foolish thoughts. and if one person faints in a crowd, madness, come under this heading. Cases of kleptomania, or "stealing many others will follow.

Suggestions, powerful in the wak- Ordinary psychiatric treatment is ing state when diluted with hundreds difficult and unsatisfactory in these of other ideas.

Infinitely cases, but hypnotism cures. concentrated more powerful when

become

into a mind swept clear all dila- Unjustified fear

SHE is disappointed in most of our And all this talk of cricket and foot-traction. public buildingu because "they are ball, just like children." not grandiose enough," The dingy

All the patient hns to do is lo SHE is puzzled because there is no relax, and concentrate his attention M they will always be "In the

MANY fear that, once hypnotised. red bricks of St James's Palace have black markel in London,

although on one idea, while the doctor makes power of the hypnotist." This is not no message for her. She prefers the the hopes to visit Petticoat-lane, suggestions of sleep.

true. oblong rafesly of Buckingham because word reached her in Ger

Certainly, if hypnosis is repeated many that that was the centre of it.

again and again, it becomes easter and casior each time.

Palace.

SHE was standing in a hus queue.

Ideal .condition

SHE cannot understand why Ger-ES, it is as simple as that, yet Sometimes there is a fear of not waiting for a Green Line coach to many does not get more food, "We I 95 percent of ordinary people waking up, but this is quite un- Beaconsfield, Ducks, where she at- are starving and no one seems Je can be talked into the drowsy, sug- justified. tende lectures on the British way of care," she said bitterly.

ต

of British hyonosis.

Only

to

gestible #inte, resembling sleep, Even If the hypnotist died, the life with 15 other .German girls.

SIE. noticed the plaques in the which constitutes the first stage of patient would wake un buite natur- Opposite was the B.B.C., which

with the names I Mall

nily. This is the ideal

Hvonotism is completely safe pointed out to her. "But she sald, Colonies and Dominions on them.

condition for in proper hands. "The places

she said. "But healing purposes. surprised, "I cannot belleve it. We

you

The presence of

Hypnotiam is not a "cure-all"; an bombed that, didn't we? I thought

not for long,

I think ""

the hypnotist is not even necessary nebing tooth, requires a dentist. not it was destroyed."

SIIE cannot understand why we many have been hypnotised over the n hvenotist a headache may be the Russians "now that radio, or even by a gramophone simple, or the symptom of a grain SHE lo serious, hardworking.

not hate Hitler is not there to guard us rece Normally she gets up at 8.30 in her against

tumour. them."

How about eures? Most people, barely furnished, unhested room in

doctor la qualled SIE is a hand-picked German, an for instance, can suggest to themi dlounose between the two. The real

A. Hamburg..and works until midnight Intelligent girl. She la too polite to solves that they will wake up at a danger lies in the use of hypnotiems on one meal of soup and red cab- Bay 50,

but she is obviously puzzled certain time, and do so.. bage.

by those unqualified to diagnose that the Germans were beaten by n SHE thinks our publie houses, nation

Similarly, the hypnotist can sug dirasc. of childish-minded loafers. gest that the patient will wake up however quaint and traditional, are There are millions of girls lite completely free from symptoms, and, of hynnetiam are realised, together Once the tremendous possibilities another waste of time, "All these Gundel in Germany today.

Tho he will,

safety and sim- with its complete people, just talking and drinking, views will

one day decide the Naturally, the first is easier to do pllcity, then surely publie opinion she said. "It is terrible, terrible. In future of their country. I wonder than the second, but the principle is will demand Germany they would be working what the bad ones are like.

that doctors should the same...

make full use of it'

all

The truth drug is now available at hospitals in Britain to treat such cases, but the Home Office has re- fused psychiatrists permission to try the drug on suspected criminals to aid in ellciting a confession.

Most medical men agree that what

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