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Snake Hypnotism. |
By Graham Peck. - G ¢
HERE is a certain power to fascinate in a snake’s eyes and move
' T ments. 1 saw only the other day a typical illustration of the
power of a snake to fascinate. :
Over in the pine woods I saw a ground squirrel fascinated
|PR by a black gopher snake. The forked tongue darted put of the
L{”;\;Q*j} snake’s mouth almost as regularly and rapidly as the necdle ot
Saddey . sowing machine rises and falls. The squirrel seemzd to watch
it speelbound. When the gopher snake was within two or three inches of the
‘squirrel it gave a leap and threw three coils about the squirrel. Instantly the
spell was gone. The fascination or charm there had been over the little ani
mal was no doubt broken the very moment the serpent’s coils were about the
squirrel, for the animal gave three convulsive, terrified chirps and realized that
its death moment had come. ~
I believe implieitly that all snakes have a certein degree of power to
fascinate their victims to death. Blacksnakes, gopher snakes and racers have
the power to a large degree. Rattlesnakes have the most fascinating power
among all the poigonous serpents in the Southwest. The indications of charm
ing among poisonous snakes are deceivingsometimes, Poisonous gnakes fang
their prey once only. The poison does not kill at once. The victim flutters po
‘a branch, it may be, or runs a short distance and stops. The snake watches it.
The poison does its deadly work, and the bird falls. Any one who comes up,
not having seen the attack, might be readily deceived into imzgining that it
was the glance of the snake and not the poison that caused the victim to fall.
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uicide is Hereditary.
By Coroner Moses P. Jackson,of New Yorlg,
! 8 there such a thing as hereditary suicidal impluse? Is it curable?
fi,’; Medical authorities answer both questions afiirmatively. If I had
% never read a medical work, I could suswer the first question
: * N affirmatively out of my experience in the Coroner’s office. Ex-
AGLY v-_‘,-" amples of inherited suicidal impulse are frequent. The existe.'r}ce
v%@, of suicidal impulse as a form of insanity and its transmissibility
. have been positively established.
The question grows in importance as suicide increases. It does not follow
to be sure, that bhecause one or the other of one’s parents commits suicide
that the suicidal impulse exists in the offspring. The exact contrary may ob
tain. But when it does exist, what i 3 to be done? Conzult an alienist. That
is the only common scnce advice. If your eyes are impaired, you consult an
oculist. If you find your mind manifesting tendencies which are beyond the
control of your will, you don’t nnecd a surgeon, but an expert in mental dis
eases.
The cure for inherited =zuicidal tendency is very much the same as for
melancholia. The alienist will work to build up the general system, insist
en hygienic surroundings correct dieting and cheerful environment. The
tendency is hardest to fight when it is developed by chronic illness. Then
the cure is most often solely wrought by strong mental influence.
Dr. Maudsley, the noted English alienist, mentions a remarkable method
of treatment. He was consulted by a patient who had a history of inherited
suicidal impulse through five gencrations. When he reached the age of thirtys
five, he became subject to gpells of intense depression in which the tendency
to self-destruction was almost irresistible. Dr. Maudsley, after studying the
case, decided that the periods of depression were augmented by the patient’s
excessive applicaticn to ‘his business. He advised him to take a daily nap in
the middle of the day. :
The man protested he could not spare the time from his business. Then
the physician told him promptly at noon to lean back in his chair, close his
eyes and dose off with a dinner bell in his hand. When he fell asleep, the
bell would drop from his zand and awaken him,
The man tried it and, though his nap often lasted but a few moments, the
mental relaxation proved of immense benefit, and within a short time his fits
of depression entirely passed away. He overcame his suicidal tendency and
was the first of his line for five generations to die a matural death.
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The Summer Sneeze.
What Happens When a FParticle of Ragweed Invades
the Olfactory Region.
: By Walter Beverley Crane.
HE philisopty of sneezing should be thoroughly understood by
hay fever victims. It is a well known fact that a ‘snceze al
ways indicates that there is something wrong. It does not oc
_ cur in health unless some foreign substance irritates the mem-
PR branes of the nasal passages, upon which the nervous filaments
@{3({@) are distributed. In hay fever these are unduly excitable, hence
Mmmmmemesn? the repeated sneezings which then occur. The nose receives
three sets of nerves; the nerves of smell, those of feeling, and those of mo
tion. The former communicate to the brain the odorous properties of sub
stances with which they come in contact, in a diffused or concentrated state;
the second communicate the impressions of touch; the third move the mus
cles of the nose, but their power is very limited.
When a sneeze occurs, all these faculties are excited in a high degree.
The most minute particle of flowering ragweed excites the olfactory nerves,
which despatch to the brain this intelligence, “Ragweed has attacked the
nostrils.”
The brain instanty sends a mandate through the motor nerves to the
muscles, saying “Cast it out!” and the result is unmistakable.
So offensive is the enemy besieging the nostril held to be, that the
pose is mot left to its own defence. It were too feeble to accomplish this.
An allied army of muscles join in the rescue; nearly one-half the body is
roused against the intruder; from the muscles of the lips to those of the
abdomen, all unite in the effort for the expulsion of the microscopically minute
particle of the weed.
Let us consider what occurs in this instaneous operation:
The lung become fully inflated, the abdominal organs are pressed down
ward, and the veil of the palate drops down to form a barrier to the escape
of the air through the mouth; and now in all the muscles which ‘have relaxed
for the purpose contract simultaneously and force the compressed air from the
lungs in a torrent out through the nasal passages, with the benevolent deter
mination to sweep away the particle of ragweed which has been causing irri
tation therein.
Such, then, is the complicated action of a sneeze; and if the first effort
does not succeed, then follows a second, a third, and a fourth; and not
until victory is achieved does the army of defenders dissolve its compact and
gettle down into the enjoyment of peace and quietude.
By removing the nose from the face and replacing it down side up the
whole process is reversed. ’
By leaving it off hay fever may be avoided.
Thiz advice is not to be sneezed at.—New York Sun.
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