Able To Transfer Lunacy

A series of vcry wonderfuJ experiment vincli have just beeii concluded by Dr. Luya of Paris, wiio.se observati' i;.. .u(i iiisooveriea in counection with magnotísin and eleotricity in relation to hypnocifiiu marte a profonnd impressiou i,i;. u he soi ütifloworld sometime ago, iiadled toa romarkablw rosult. The lau.t discovei-y establishes the faot tfaat ral aotivity cau be transí'trrod toa crofrü oí máguetized íran in whioh tho activ.ty can beretained ana .-.ubsequently pússed on to a second porsoh. Iiicredible ;;s this may suuui, Dr. Luys has pruvi 1 its possibility by the experimecfo just ruf'errod to. Ji' placed tlíe orown, whic'i in reality is ouly a circular band of uiaguetized irou, on the head ol a teníale patieut sufferiuíí frem melaucholia, with a manía for self dcstruction, and with such succe.ss was tüo experiment, attend( ;i that within a fortniglit the patient could be ailowed to go fi-ee without danger, tho crown haviug absorbed all her niai'kcd teudencies About two weeks aiterward he put ;he same crown, which lucamvhile had been cureiully kept free froru contact with anytbiug elso, on (ie head of a male patiënt Rniïering from hysteria, complicated by frequent recurrent periods of lethargy. The patiënt was then iypnotied and immediately conducted himseJf after the manner of the woman who had previortsly worn tho crown. ndeed he practically assumcd her perouality and utteied ezactly the same omplaints aa she had done. Similar jhenoinena havo, it is reporter], been bsetvod in the case of evcry patiënt experimented upon. Another experiment showed ihatthe cro%vn retained the impression acqnirod uutil it was made hot.-