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304 Ocean Park, N. J., "judgments" at, 6060. [sic] Odylic force, healing by, 290. Oil, anointing with, 5, 42, 43.

Old Orchard, cures at, 6; value of testimony to cures at, 8; failures at, 16; "Zion's Herald" on faith-healing convention at, 19. Omens, 151, 201, 207.

Oneida Community, cure of disease at, 286, 287. Onymus, Prof., testimony to Prince Hohenlohe's cures, 3, 4. Opium, effects of, 117, 169.

Oracle of Delphi, Cicero on, 91, 92. Oratorical spells, 128. Ostrogoths, witchcraft among, 210. Ovarian tumor, simulated by hysteria, 9; failure in case of, 17, 18; case of, 33. Ovid on witchcraft, 209. Ox without a heart, 91.

Padua influenced by Aries, 72. Pagan priests, reputed power to work miracles, 47, 48. Pagans, parity with Christian faith-healers, 42. Pain, effect of excitement on, 51; sensation of, in a removed limb, 244.

Palestine influenced by Aries, 72. Palmistry, 88. Palsy, cured by Christ, 39; produced by Aries, 73. Pantheist priests, reputed power to work miracles, 47. Paralysis, cures of, 1, 3-5, 15, 25, 27, 34; simulated by hysteria, 7; planetary influence on, 173. Paralytic dreams, 128. Paris, troubles predicted for, 83. Paris, Dr., on the use of drugs, 278. Pascal, Blaise, miracle wrought on his niece, 24; hallucinations of, 169.

Passes, utility of, 27, 42. Paul, Emperor, planetary influence on, 76. Paul, Jean, hallucinations of, 169.

Pearce, A. J., prediction of, 73. Peekskill. N. Y., sudden death of candidate for divine healing at, 49. Peel, anecdote of Byron and, 190.

Peerage, prophesied effort to abolish, 83. Peet, Harvey P., on the dreams of the deaf, 125.

Peirce, Prof., on law of chance, 104.

Pennsylvania, witchcraft in, 199, 200, 215. Penn, William, on witchcraft, 215. Pequot Indians, law regulating, 214.

Perfectionists, 2. Perkins, Dr., his metallic tractors, 22. Persia, astrology in, 66; witchcraft in, 207, 220. Personal characteristics influenced by the signs of the Zodiac, 72, 73, 76, 82, 84-87. Pestilences foretold by astrology, 70. Pharaoh, the dreams of, 109. Phenicians, witchcraft among, 208, 220. Phenomena, investigation of, 20, 105, 106. Phipps, Sir William, action in New England witchcraft, 224.

Photography, invention of, 103. Physical disease, causes of, 255.

Physical touch, claim for, 50. Physicians, diagnoses by, 7. Physiology, how regarded by Christian Scientists, 251. Pilgrims, penalties for witchcraft enacted by, 213. Pitcher, Moll, 205. Plagues, frequency of, in Europe, 81. Planets, influence of, 66 et seq.; affliction of, 73; malefic, 73, 75. Plato, statue struck by lightning, 89; on dreams, 110. Pliny, on sleep and dreams, 122, 123.

Poetry, composed in dreams, 131. Poisons, effects of, 266; Christian Science view of, 266, 267.

Poland influenced by Aries, 72. Post-mortem examinations, conclusive evidence, 11; ignored by Christian Scientists, 272. Prayer, healing by, 2, 4-6; efficacy of, by individual healers, 15; claims of efficacy to restore life, 16; mistaken ideas about signs in answer to, 18; a consolation for the sick, 43; Christian doctrine of answer to, 43, 44; a point when unavailing for the sick, 44; for abscess of stomach, 56; unsuccessful case of healing by, in St. Louis, 58; not a substitute for common sense, 161; Hugo's definition of, 255; for a dyspeptic, 258, 259; efficacy of, 263, 285. Premonitions, influence of, 151.

Presbyterians, trances among, 2; catalepsy among, 60.

Presentiment, what is a, 152-155; personal experience, 166, 167.

Presentiments, visions, and apparitions, 151-195. Presentiments, influence of, 151; relation to dreams, 152; allied to impressions, 160; subjective origin of, 168. Pressat on consumption, 12.

Pressing to death, 218. Pride, planetary influence on, 73. Proctor, R. A., on influence of Uranus, 79; attacks astrology, 85; on remarkable coincidences, 96, 97, 99, 100. Prophecies, fulfilment of Jewish, 40; presumptions from Jewish, 62.