Part 53

Scientific theorising on this matter is necessarily sterile, because such an investigation is only half material for science,--physical science. Science is not a bad thing in itself, especially when it minds its own business and keeps its place below stairs; but it never sympathises with sanctity, and there is no deep knowledge without sympathy. Fact-grinding made Darwin "nauseate Shakspere." Science can not see in the dark as genius and sanctity see, and if it does see in the dark it is no longer science but genius working on a scientific object. As Professor William James said: "Science taken in its essence should stand only for a method, and not for any special beliefs, yet, as habitually taken by its {353} votaries, Science has come to be identified with a certain fixed general belief, the belief that the deeper order of Nature is mechanical exclusively, and that non-mechanical categories are irrational ways of conceiving and explaining even such a thing as human life." Science should recognise its own limitations and not meddle in attempted explanations of the inexplicable. Therefore, what of the stigmata of the saints from a scientific point of view? There is no scientific point of view.

AUSTIN OMALLEY.

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Abdominal pregnancy, 5. Abortion, 22, 48; causes of, 48, 49, 51, 52, 53; in puerperal pneumonia, 151; tubal, 6.

Abortus, 19, 20, 49. Acephalus, 75. Actinomyces, visits in, 183. Acute indigestion in the aged, 154. Addison's disease, death in, 155; symptoms of, 156. Adipocere, 7. Aertnys on ectopic gestation, 26, 27. Aggressor, 18, 19. Agoraphobia, 296. Air-space, 204. Alcohol, effects on the mind, 109; in proprietary medicines, 93; in snake-poisoning, 118; in typhoid fever, 118.

Alcoholic amnesia, 110; climacteric, 108; delusions, 109, 110; insanity, 107, 105, 109; liquors, 108; poisoning, 107, 109, 110; pseudo-paranoia, 109.

Alcoholism, 105; and cirrhosis of the liver, 156; and coma, 138; and conjugal infidelity, 109; and epilepsy, 256; and idiocy, 113; and imbecility, 112, 114; and marriage, 111, 126; and pneumonia, 151; and surgical operations, 163; and the will, 111; causes of, 108; children in, 112; complicating disease, 162; temperance societies, 112.

Amateur medical advice, 89. Ambulatory epilepsy, 261. Amenorrhoea, 241. Amnesia and epilepsy, 263. Ampullar pregnancy, 5. Amputations, uterine, 65. Anaesthesia in mania, 227. Anatomia genitalium mulieris, 331. Androgynia, 340. Aneurism, causes of, 155; death in, 155.

Angina pectoris, death in, 142. Anointing in smallpox, 177. Anopheles mosquito, 186. Anthrax, visits in, 184. Antitoxin, 171, 195. Aortic valvular disease, death in, 140. Apoplexy, 143; and fainting, 145; hard arteries and, 144; short neck and, 146; symptoms of, 144; the third stroke in, 146; treatment in, 145; vertigo and, 144.

Appendicitis, peritonitis in, 153; prognosis in, 153.

Apraxia, 263. Aristotle, his determinants of morality, 14. Arteries in apoplexy, 146. Arteriosclerosis and apoplexy, 144. Aspects of intoxication, 105. Aspermia, 343. Asomata, 75. Assassins of presidents, 302. Atresia vaginae et impotentia, 333. Autohypnosis, 130. Autositic monsters, 75. Azoospermia, 343.

Bacteria, 168; kinds of, 169; specific causes of disease, 169.

Baptism in ectopic gestation, 83; of monsters, 87.

Barber's itch, contagiousness, 198. Barkers, 237. Beer, percentage of alcohol in, 108. Beriberi, visits in, 184. Bibliography of hypnotism, 117. Bichloride of mercury, a disinfectant, 191. Black death, 184; mortality of, 184.

Black fevers, 160. Bleeders, 124. Blood brought out by suggestion, 349. Bloody sweat, 347; and hypnosis, 349; cases of, 348.

Books and infection, 195; disinfection of, 190. Borgess on the Lateau case, 350. Brain tumours, 148; and syphilis, 322; symptoms of, 148.

Breeding places of mosquitoes, 186. Breuss' ovum, 73. {356} Brick in buildings, 203. Broad ligament, 3. Broad-ligament pregnancy, 5. Bromides and epilepsy, 98. Bubonic plague, mortality in, 185; transmission of, 185; visits in, 184.

Building materials, 203. Building sites, 202. Burns, death in, 156.

Caesarean section, 41, 42, 51, 55; and sepsis, 56, 57; indications for, 55; statistics of, 55.

Cancer complicating pregnancy, 44; death in, 158.

Canonical law on impotence, 326. Carbonic add in the air, 206. Cardiac massage, 165. Carentia ovariorum, 334. Carpets, disinfection of, 194. Cases of ectopic gestation, 22. Castratio et impotentia, 342. Catarrh and proprietary drugs, 100 Cathartics, 100. Causae impotentiae mulieris, 332. Cats and diphtheria, 195. Cells, 69. Cellular activity and death, 164. Centrosome, 70. Cerebrospinal meningitis, 148, 182. Cerebral neurasthenia, 230. Chickenpox, 197. Children of drunkards, 112; suicide of, 308.

Chorea, 51; and menstrual disorders, 243.

Chromatin, 70. Chromosomes, 70, 71. Circular insanity, 228. Circumstances m morality, 12. Cirrhosis of the liver, causes of, 156; death in, 156.