Daily Colonist (1890-07-31) by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: British Columbia; Newspapers
Published: 1890-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

f \ I get an insight y many national

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and " manners. Tho coolies and farming , people and the like go \ third class, and in such J crowds one thinks on drawing up to a station that the whole village is going to hoard the train. They are great travelers, both for pleasure and business.

Smoking is practised by all, groat and rinall, idd ami young, and both sexes alike enjoy the weed.

Japanese tobacco is rank and strong and not liked by foreigners. It is cut. very line, after the manner of tine-ettt chewing tobacco in America, but it is not chewed, nor is snuff used.

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ily performed and the ed under hypnotic nn-ug suggestions" being patient, to which Dr. Bramwell in a great measure attributes tho very rapid healing, which took place in ten days— a remarkably short space of time in a girl by no means in a good slate of health. She was put to sleep by the following letter from Dr. Bramwell addressed to Mr. Turner: "Burlington crescent., (ioole. Yorks. Dear Mr. Turner—I send you a patient withenclos-cdorder. When you givo it her she will /'nil asleep at once and obey your commands. J. Milue Bramwell." Order : "Go to sleep at enee, by order of Dr. Bramwell, and obey Mr. Turner's commands. J. Milne Bramwell." This experiment answered perfectly, not with h Sleep was induced at once by reading havonlndi the note, and o profound that, at the end of | her a lengthy operation, in which sixteen slumps J floor a were removed, she awoke smiling, and insist* her fee ed that sh 'had lolt no pain, and. what, was I as at h remarkable, there was no pain in her mouth, not en She was found after some time, when unob- chairs oi served, reading the Graphic in the waiting i from tin room as if nothing had happened. During the ! cles her whole time she did everything which Mr. garment Turner suggested, but it was observed that pouch, n there was a diminished (low of saliva, and | the fluoc that, the corneal, reflexes were absent, tho breathing more noisy than ordinarily, aud the pulse slower.

Dr. Bramwell took occasion to explain that tho next ease, a boy aged 3, was a severe test, and would probably not succeed, partly lie. causti tint patient was so young, and chiefly because lie had not attempted to produce hypnotic anaesthesia earlier than two days before. Ho also explained that patients require training in this form of nuajjthesia, the time of training or preparation, varying With each in li ill nil. However, ho was sii far hypnotized that ho allowed Mr. Mayc Robson to operate on the great to", removing n bony growth 11 part of tin first phalanx With no more than a tew- cries toward the close of the operation, and with the result

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