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Rh Faith-cures, bearings of occult causes upon, 26 et seq. Falth-healers, comparison of cures with those of other sects, 15, 38; dissensions among, 16; limitations of powers, 38; claims to supernatural powers discredited, 42; dispense with oil, 43; representations concerning God's methods, 44, 45; failures of, 46, 52-55; their defense examined, 46-49; atrocious doctrines of, 57; compared with Christian Scientists, 279, 283. Faith-healing, produces selfishness, 45; tendency to mental derangement, 46. Faith-healing phenomena, root questions concerning, 3. Faith-homes, 57-60. Fancy as means to cure, 278. Faraday, on future life, 63, 64; planetary influence on, 76. Female complaints, 7, 15. Ferdinand II., planetary influence on, 76. Fever, attempted cure by faith, 2; a fatal case of African, 17; visions produced by, 169. Fever and ague simulated by hysteria, 7. Figure of the heavens, a, 71, 72, 74.

Finger cannot be restored by faith, 38.

Fire, arousing will-power by, 50. Fires, prediction of great, 81, 83. Fixed stars, influence of, 73.

Flamsteed, believer in astrology, 67. Flanders influenced by Gemini, 72. Flint, Prof., on consumption, 11. Flint, Mich., investigations at institution for blind and deaf, 125, 426. Florence influenced by Aries, 72.

Fluxes cured by mental delusion, 21. Flying in the air, 113.

Folk-lore, 199. Food, Christian Science views of, 263, 264. Forbes, Sir John, on vis medicatrix naturæ, 277; on mental remedies, 284.

Force of manner, speech, or thought, 42. Forebodings, 152, 153. Forgery of signatures, 104. Foster, Charles, manifestations of, 97, 98. France, witchcraft in, 201, 211. Franklin, Benjamin, on commission to investigate Mesmer's phenomena, 26; effect of dreams on 131. Freaks of nature, 274. Friday, coincidences regarding, 94, 95. Fright, beneficial effect of, 22. Fuertes, Prof., testimony as to Towne séance, 29, 31.

Future, foretelling the, 71. Future events foretold in dreams, 136 et seq. Future life, Faraday on, 63, 64.

Galen, belief in astrology, 66. Galvinism, supposed action of, 22. Gardenstone, Lord, researches of, 18. Garfield, Gen., cometary influence on death of, 75, 76, 82; presentiment concerning assassination of, 166, 167, note.

Gases, action of, relation to phenomena of witchcraft, 232. Gassner, Father Joseph, cures by, 5, 15; influence on Mesmer, 28. Gautier, Théophile, on the effects of hashish, 118. Gemini, influence of, 72, 73, 75, 77, 82. George III., planetary influence on, 76. Germany, witchcraft in, 32, 201, 212; influenced by Aries, 72; torture in, 228. Ghosts, 194, 201. God, power of, 12, 154; pecuniary needs of, 57; the Christian Scientists' views of, 244; personality of, 538 [sic]. Goethe, influence of planets on his birth, 66; belief in astrology 66; visions of, 169; compared with Shakspere, 196. Going out with the tide, 102. Gordon, Rev. Mr., relation of cure of broken arm, 55. Gout, cure of, 38. Grant, Gen., planetary influence on surrender of Lee to, 75. Great Britain, nativity in, confounded in Australia, 88.

Great Plague predicted, 77. Greece, astrology in, 66; divination in, 89; witchcraft in, 201; belief in apparitions in, 187. Greek churches, cures in, 4, 5. Greeks, witchcraft among, 209. Green, Chancellor H. W., on Tennent's case, 146, 147. Greenberger, Prof., on the dreams of the deaf, 126. Green-stick fracture of forearm, 55. Greenwood, Frank, case of, 165. Gregory, Dr., effect of dreams on, 131. Grey, Sir George Francis, anecdote of, 96, 97. Griesinger, on hallucinations, 169, 171. Grimke, Mrs., on mental healing, 249, 250. Grotesque ideas, conception of, 133. Gustavus IV., planetary influence on, 76.

Habitual visions, 176, 181. Hale, Hon. John P., coincidence of name, 94.