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 ÓMALLEY. {354} {355} INDEX {356} {357} INDEX A 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.