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296 Cellini, Benvenuto, hallucinations of, 169.

Census of hullucinations of the sane, 171, 172.

Chaldea, astrology in, 66. Chaldean astrologers, contention of Diogenes with, 84.

Chaldeans, witchcraft among, 208. Chance, laws of, 99, 100; possibilities of, 164. Character foretold by astrology, 70. Charity begins at home, 59. Charles II., touches for scrofula, 24; planetary influence over, 76. Charleston, S. C., the earthquake a "judgment," 60; Zadkiel's predictions concerning earthquakes at, 78. Charlotte of Mexico, planetary influence over, 76. Chaucer, believer in astrology, 67. Chemicalization, 253, 254. Chemistry, planetary influence over, 73; coincidences of, 103. Cherbury, Lord Herbert of, vision of, 180.

Chester Cathedral, touching for scrofula at, 24. Chickering, Prof. J. W., Jr., on the dreams of the deaf, 126. Children, illusions among, 172, 173; diseases of, 278. China, astrology in, 66; witchcraft in, 207. Chloroform, effects of, 118. Cholera, effect of mental impressions in panic of, 51. Christ, miracles of, 38-42, 45, 47; question of his subjection to limitations marking faith-healers, 39; doctrines of, 40; no account of failures by, 42; his works unparalleled by Christian faith-healers, 42; how his claims sustained, 47; investigation of his miracles, 61-63; resurrection of, 62; apparition of the risen, 195. Christian, his resort in extremis, 44. Christian faith-healers, claims of, practically discredited, 41. Christianity, not responsible for faith-healing delusion, 46; cause injured by faith-healers, 46. Christianity and witchcraft, 209-212. Christian religion, the part of dreams in, 109. Christian Science, 239 et seq.; the technical language of, 250, 251; distinguished from faith cure, 262, 263; views on surgery, 269; absurdity of the scheme, 275; explanation of alleged success of, 275 et seq. Christian Science institutes, 242. Christian Science mind-healing, course of tuition in, 242.

Christian Scientist Association, 241, 242. Christian Scientists, cant of, 251. Chronic cases, cures of, 15.

Church of Christ, 241. Church-wall mortar, cure by, 49. Cicero, on destinies of twins, 84; on divination, 89-92; on the Oracle of Delphi, 91, 92; on dreams, 109, 110, 135. Circulatory system, effect of concentrated attention on, 25, 37, 38.

Clairvoyance, 139, 154; Mrs. Eddy on, 261. Clairvoyants, how regarded by Christian Scientists, 252.

Clarke, Dr. E. H., on visions of the dying, 181. Coincidences, multiplicity of, 78; in English history, 81, 82; of other events, 82, 83; what necessary to form a law, 83; astrologers' faith in, 88; the support of divination, 89, 92, 93; frequency of, 93; in names, 93, 94, 100, 101; in dates, 94, 95; as regards Friday, 94, 95; in last words, 95, 96; in marriages, 96; in resemblances, 96; in medicine, 98, 99; in chances, 99, 100; of the letter M, 100, 101; their interpretation, 102-106; Prof. Airy on, 100; possibilities of, 106; impartiality of, 146; incomputability of, 147. Coke, Lord, on witchcraft, 198. Colchester, manifestations by, 97, 98. Cole, Major, assistant to Mr. Simpson, 49. Coleridge, S. T., composition of "Kubla Khan" by, 114, 115. Columbus, coincidences regarding, 94.

Comet B, connection with death of Garfield, 75, 82. Comets, Shakspere's mention of, 69. Common cause, inquiry as to, 19 et seq. Common sense cannot be supplanted by prayer, 161. Communists, violence by, predicted for Paris, 83. Condorcet on dreams, 131. Confessions of witchcraft, retraction of, 227-229, 234. Congenital affections, limitation of faith cures of, 16. Congregationalists, trances among, 2; catalepsy among, 60. Connecticut, Millerites and Adventists in, 2; Mrs. Mix's cures in, 6; witchcraft in, 213, 214. Constantine favored torture, 228. Constantine of Russia, planetary influence on, 76. Constipation, cure of obstinate, 25.

Consumption, cures of, 5; imaginary, 7; simulated by liver diseases, 7; deceitful character of, 9, 10; frequent spontaneous recoveries from,