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PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



VOL. Go. 



on his anue, delivers them one by one to his majestie, who puts 

 them about the necks of the touched as they passe, while the first 

 chaplaine repeats, ' That is ye true light who came into ye world.' 

 Then follows an epistle (as at first a gospell) with the liturgy, 

 prayers for the sick; lastly ye blessing; and then the lord, cham- 

 berlaine and comptroller of the household, brings a basin, ewer and 

 towel, for his majesty to wash.'' 



Touchpicce. — A gold coin of the time of Cliarles II of England, such as was 

 used by that king in the ceremony of " touching " for the cure of scrofula, or 



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:»■£ 



C:ird-.nal o!"?crk. as Ti-.nry IX. 

 (Silver.) 



Fig. 11. — ToucuPiKL'ES kuu DisTKiurTici.v .\t the He.\.i.ix(;s. 



King's evil. About four-fifths of an inch in diameter, bearing on one side fig- 

 ures of Saint George and the Dragon and the legend "Soli deo Gloria ; " on the 

 other a figure of a ship under sail, with the legend " Car. II, DG. M. B. FR. 

 ET. HI. REX." Cat. No. 143,199, U.S.N.M. 



Hypnotism. — Aninuil magnetism, mesmerism, somnaml)ulism. 

 trance, ecstacy. An artificially produced or self-induced mental 

 state, in which the mind becomes more or less passive, and both con- 

 sciousness and will may be controlled or abolished by the influence 

 of command or suggestion. The mental impressions made by the 

 senses may be perverted or enfeebled or interrupted, nniscular ir- 



