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...Leopold Thoma. a rugged and persevering psychologist of the University of Vienna, has for some 30 years been exploring the therapeutic uses of hypnosis on stammering, neuroses, childbirth pain. He holds the record for mass hypnosis, having once entranced 180 people at a crack. Reflecting that the nature of hypnosis is not well understood. Dr. Thoma some years ago decided to see what he could learn by applying hypnotic technique to highly intelligent animals. He chose the chimpanzee...
Scientists have induced a sort of frozen trance in chickens, rabbits, partridges and sea lions by suddenly forcing them into unnatural positions. Many a hunter has watched bird-dog trainers tuck a pigeon's head under its wing, plant it for the dogs to find. Dr. Thoma now believes that this state is probably not hypnosis at all. but a form of cataplexy (fear-rigidity). When he tried such crude tactics on chimpanzees in London. Vienna. Berlin and South America, the apes simply got up from their unnatural positions with an air of patient boredom. He then concluded that...
Last week U. S. readers of the Illustrated London News were apprised of Dr. Thoma's success in being the first man to hypnotize a chimpanzee. Not wishing to waste time on aloof or doltish subjects...
...Moral," by Ludwig Thoma, the comedy presented Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week, and Tuesday to Friday of next week, by the Ford Hall Players at The Barn at 36 Joy Street, is a biting satire on the "double standard" as it exists in the German middle class. The play deals with a Society for the Suppression of Vice, all of whose members find their reputations threatened when the police raid the disorderly house kept by Madame Ninon de Hautville, a "lady of leisure," whose establishment is recommended by the most fashionable gentlemen...
President Conant has been appointed as an ex-officio member of the Administrative Board of the Harvard Dental School, and Dr. Kurt H. Thoma, professor of oral pathology, and Dr. Varaztad Kazanjian, professor of clinical oral surgery, have been made members...