10, 12; in Scotland, 11; Prof. J. H. Bennett on, 11; one of Dr. Cullis's cures, 19; case of Dr. Newton's daughter, 35; planetary influence on, 73; inability of mental healers to cure, 283.
Contracted joints, cures of, 4, 38.
Conversion, what is, 60, 61.
Convictions, strength of, 154.
Convulsions, cures of, 15.
Correspondence, cures by, 5, 259, 260, 282.
Cotton famine in England, planetary influence on, 82.
Courage, planetary influence on, 73; views of Christian Scientists on, 252.
Cracow influenced by Aries, 72.
Criticism, cure by, 286, 287.
Crœsus, prophecy concerning, 92.
Croup produced by Gemini, 73.
Crucifixion, the, 40.
Cruelty, planetary influence on, 73.
Cruveilhier on consumption, 12.
Crystal Palace, illusion at burning of, 189).
Cullis. Dr. Chas., cures by, 5, 15; failures of, 16; a cure of consumption and its results, 19; story of cure of broken arm, 54.
Cures, testimony as to, 6-14; condition of patients prior to alleged, 13, 14; imaginary or exaggerated, 14; have the facts a common cause? 14, 19 et seq.; limitations of, 15-19; extolled, 19; by natural mental causes, 20-25.
Current events, knowledge of, imparted by dreams, 136 et seq.
Daniel an astrologer, 67.
Daphne a diviner, 209.
Darcet on commission to investigate Mesmer's phenomena, 26.
Dates, coincidences in, 94, 95.
Davy, Sir Humphrey, cure of paralysis by, 25.
Day-dreaming, 120.
Dead, raising the, 2; raised by Christ, 39; consulting the, 89; reappearance of the, 184 et seq.
Deaf, cured by Christ, 39; dreams of the, 125-127.
Deafness, limitation of curing. 16; cures of, 16.
Death, possibility of escaping, 2; inevitability of, 44; coincidences in the hour of, 102, 103; effects of fear of, on mind, 130; foretold in dreams, 136 et seq.; dreams of, 140, 145, 147; presentiments concerning, 162, 168; Christian Science view of, 275.
Deferment of percipience, 140.
Deiotarus, King, belief in divination, 90.
Delirious persons, extraordinary strength shown by, 51.
Delirium, its causes and effects, 119.
Delphi, oracle at, 90.
Del Rio on torture, 228.
Delusions, encouraged by faith-healing doctrine, 45; self-perpetuating, 46.
Dementia, lack of evidence of cure of, 16; the dreams of, 128.
Democritus, belief in astrology, 66, 79.
Demonology, 198.
Denmark, influenced by Aries, 72; witchcraft in, 202.
Dentist, use of animal magnetism by, 1.
De Quincey, Thomas, experiences, 117.
Detroit, cures by Dr. Bryant at, 33, 34.
Devil, how he affects dreams, 149.
Devils, cast out by Christ, 39; cast out by SS. Peter and Paul, 41; cures attributed to, 45.
"Devil's Sonata," composition of, 115.
Diagnosis, how mistaken, plays into hands of faith healers, 25.
Dice throwing, wager on, 99, 100.
Diet, how regarded by Christian Scientists, 252.
Diogenes the Stoic, on destinies of twins, 84.
Diphtheria cured by criticism. 286, 287.
Disease, cured without medicine, 2; simulated by hysteria, 7; difficulties of diagnosis, 11; resistance of, 14; Christian doctrine for cases of, 44; predicated, 83.
Diseases, imaginary, 7; external or internal, 7; produced by Aries, 72, 73; by Gemini, 73.
Diseases of accumulation, how influenced, 38.
Divination, 88-93. 198; how maintained, 89, 92, 93, 106; condemned by Moses, 219.
Divine healing, A. B. Simpson on, 49.
Divine mind and its ideas the only realities, 243.
Diviners, 92, 93.
Divine will, 50.
Divining-rod, the Bible as a, 57.
Divining-rods, 207.
Doctrine of chances, use of, in investigation, 142, 143.
Dog, a somnambulistic, 124; mental commands to a, 267, 268.
Dogs and apparitions, 193.
Dove, trial of, 203.
Dover, N. H., séance at, 30-32.
Drake, S. G., on witchcraft, 205, 213, 232.
Dream, picking up the lost thread of a, 121.
Dream expounding, 207.
Dreaming, as inducing somnambulism, 124; differentiated from insanity, 133.
