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believed in scarcely one instance out of a hundred-nor indeed ever believed unless they are free from the possibility of lucky guess or trickery and are verified by ascertainment of the facts. A host of clairvoyants are impostors, and no money should be paid to a clairvoyant unless on the understanding that he or she cannot guarantee you a true clairvoyance; for even in the genuine the power is uncertain. We have also to regret that some mesmerisers are impostors, pretending to superior power and knowledge which they do not possess, talking, flourishing, and perhaps pouring forth religious sentences, and cruelly making pecuniary victims of their patients. But let society remember that quackery pervades all professions and all occupations: that there are many professional mesmerisers who forego a portion, or even the whole, of their just remuneration from those who are poorly off: and that many persons mesmerise silently, modestly, and assiduously without any recompense. The practice of mesmerism tends greatly to heighten sympathy with our suffering fellow-creatures and is a source of true happiness to conscientious mesmerisers. We have presented satisfactory proofs that mesmeric phenomena, though they may be produced artificially, may all occur without artificial means, and are due to a peculiar condition, of which we are as ignorant as of the true nature of gravitation, electricity, heat, light, &c. We can only observe phenomena, and ascertain to what they are or are not owing. We have proved that mesmeric phenomena are independent of imagination, suggestion, fixed ideas, &c., though every mesmerist should be aware that imagination often plays a powerful part in mesmeric phenomena, and has thus proved a stumbling-block to investigators from the time of the first commission of enquiry in Paris in the last century to the present hour.

Were the Zoist continued longer it would be replete with useless repetitions of facts; it would be too large to be purchased and too extensive to be useful. It must be regarded as a complete work which has come out in fifty-two numbers, one for every week in the year, though the issue has been slower. It is a rich store, and will be a solid work of reference for years to come.

London, December 31, 1855.

INDEX TO THE CHIEF MATTERS

IN THE

THIRTEEN VOLUMES.

The

*** The figures indicate the Volumes in which the matters will be found.

Index in each respective Volume will generally indicate the page.

PHRENOLOGY.

3

2 1,3

6 4 1 2

3 4, 8, 12

2

9, 11

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..

Alimentiveness, discoverer of organ of
Amativeness, organ of
Association, London Phrenological
Association and Suggestion
Association, British
Benevolence and Imitation (twice)
Brain grows for forty years
Buchanan, Dr.
Carpenter, Dr. ..
Cast-making
Children, ignorant and cruel treatment of
Constructiveness
Conscientiousness
Criminal Code
Criminals, treatment of
Death, against punishment of (twice)
Development, reporting

estimating
Duality of Mind, by Dr. Wigan
Education (twice)
Feelings, power of, on intellect
Gall, anecdotes of

original letter of Head of Rev. R. Moffat

John Varley
Lord Chancellor Eldon
John Constable, R.A. .
Cooper, murderer
Nall, ditto
Taylor, ditto
Rev. Dr. Strauss
Lawrence, murderer
Crouch, ditto
Alderman Sir James Shaw
Duke of Sussex
a young Thief

2 3

1

3, 13 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8

1 6, 7

6 2, 3

1 2 7 1 1

1 1 1

2 2

..

Head of Connor, murderer

Ellison, ditto
Hocker, ditto
Rush, ditto
Mannings the murderers
Haydon the painter

Socrates
Hippocrates had accurate knowledge of brain's function
Hobbes ..
Hope, organ of
Idiots, a family of
Insanity, Homicidal (twice)

Criminal
Plea of

Law of
Insane, religious instruction to (twice)
Insanity mistaken for crime
Insanity and crime
Instinct
Introduction to our views
Immortality not dependent on spirit
Language, organ of
Macnaughten, case of
Madness, to be made artificially
Marvellousness, organ of (twice)
Mathematics of Phrenology
Materialism
Medical and Chirurgical Society
Mège's, Dr., enlightened views
Mesmeric Phrenology (four times)
Necessity ..
Nerves, Matteucci on
Organs of Brain spoken of before Gail ..
Phrenology applied to the fine arts
Phrenological Journal
Physical well-being necessary to moral progress
Physics of the Nervous System
Pleasure and Pain
Prideaux's, Mr., new views
Prison at Munich
Psychologists, German
Religion not to interfere with inquiries into nature
Size, organ of
Society, London Phrenological
Sympathy, organ of (twice)
Temperament
Veneration, small organ of, excited (twice)
Wit, organ of

MESMERISM.

Abscess ..
Abscess, Lumbar
Acid, Nitric, painless application of ..
Africa, Mesmerism in

13 6, 9

7 7

After-pains

5, 11, 13 Ancles, weakness of

10 sprained

11, 13 Antiquity of Mesmerism

5, 6, 9 Arm, Stiff

6 Asthma

1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 13 Attraction to right hand only

8 Attachment, Mesmeric

12 Bear, Mesmerised Bladder

4, 5, 8 Blindness

3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Blind, Mesmerism in the Bone cured

12 Brain, overworked"..

3 inflammatory excitement of ..

6, 7 Brass

10 Breasts, inflamed :.

11, 12 Bronchitis

3 Brutes, Mesmerisation of, by Dr. Wilson

8 Clairvoyance and Cerebral Sympathy in

9 Bull, Mesmerised ..

8 Burns

10, 12 Cancer

4, 6 Catalepsy

13 Cat

10 Caustic, painless application of

4 Cerebral Sympathy

3, 7, 9 Chest

5, 12 Chilblains

11 Chlorosis

8 Cholera ..

9 Clairvoyance

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Cold opposes Mesmerism

6 Coma, cured

11 singular

10 Community of feeling

2, 5, 7 taste

11 Constipation

1 Consumption

2, 3, 8, 12 Contractions

3, 6 Convulsions

4, 11, 12 Consciousness, double

5 Costiveness

8 Cough ..

6, 10 Cow, cured

8, 11 Cross-mesmerism

3 Crystals

5, 6, 7 Cutaneous disease

10, 11, 12 Deafness

2, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 13 Debility

3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Delirium

2, 12 Tremens

8, 11, 13 Diarrhoea

11, 13 Distant Mesmerism

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