Professor Hamp, of Amsterdam, the latest exponent of autosuggestion, who has come to London, following in the footsteps of M. Coue, gave a demonstration of the new curative science at the Hyde Park Hotel recently, says the "Daily News." Unlike M, Coue, Professor Hamp teaches no general formula, nor does he advocate self-suggestion. He claims to cure all diseases of nervous origin by suggesting to the patient that his complaint does not exist.
"J do not claim to cure organic ailments," he said. "I can often make patients who are suffering from organic disease better, but 1 cannot cure them. Many illnesses are diagnosed by medical men as organic when they are really nervous of partly imaginary."
Prof. Hamp opened his demonstration by putting his audience through an "'arm-stretching kind of physical jerks,'' which ended with 'a clenching of the hands.
"Now you can't open them," said the Professor. One of the women found she could not, but the rest of the small audience were not susceptible to suggestion, This woman was then made the subject of a number of tests, and did everything that was suggested to her. "I am going to ask you to count ten." said the Professor in quiet, deliberate tones, "but you won't be able to get any, further than seven." The young woman them started to count slowly, stopped at five, and when told to go on a little further, slowly murmured "six," "seven," and then remained speechless.
TIRED FEELING NOT PREVALENT, A little later, she was the only one of half a dozen members of the audience who took a quiet afternoon's nap under the Professor's suggestion that they were all to have a tired feeling and go to sleep.
The audience, unfortunately for the value of the demonstration, was an unusually healthy one but several genuine headaches yielded to immediate treatment.
Professor Hamp simply placed his hands on each sufferer's head, closed his eyes, set his teeth, and after a few seconds uttered sharply the word "Gone!"? Each patient declared the pain had quite disappeared. In effecting these immediate cures, Professor Hamp appeared to exert tremendous will-power. The veins stood out on hig' temples. He closed his demonstration with a simple exhibition of mental telepathy. captured, but a number of the small birds died from exhaustion. Some of the birds made themselves at home in the ship's garden lounges, which contain trees and shrubs. A number were still flying about the liner when she reached Liverpoo], and had become so tama they would take food from passeng-
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