Defence Of Palmistry

It requires but a little study of the subject to convince even the worst skeptic that 'there is something in the lines' and if a little, why not a great deal, if a sufficient amount of study be devoted to it?

Almost all medical men admit now that the different formations of nails indicate different diseases, and that it is possible from the nails alone to predict that the subject will suffer from paralysis, consumption, heart disease, and so on. Many a well-known doctor has admitted that he has read more from the hand than he dared acknowledge, and that it was but the old-time prejudices which kept many a man from admitting the same thing.

In the first place, the doctor has a recognised science to go by; he has scientific instruments with the most modern improvements to assist his researches; but how many can tell the patient what he is suffering from, unless the patient first tells the doctor all about himself and his symptoms; and even then, how often can the doctor arrive at a correct diagnosis?

Now, in the case of a palmist, the client, without giving his or her name, without telling his occupation, or whether married or single, simply holds out his hands, and the palmist has to tell him past events in his life, present surroundings, health past and present; and having, by accuracy only, gained his confidence, he proceeds to read the future from the same materials that he has told the past.

Now, if the palmist, without one particle of the help that the doctor gets, should make one mistake, the client immediately considers that he is a charlatan, and palmistry a delusion and a snare. If, however, the doctor makes a blunder, it is never known, but the result is that the patient has been 'called away by Providence to another sphere.'

Now you have to decide for yourself.