Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon].

  • Drage, William, 1637?-1669.
Date:
1665
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Credit: Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and diseases from witchcraft, and supernatural causes. Never before, at least in this comprised order, and general manner, was the like published : being useful to others besides physicians, in that it confutes atheistical, sadducistical, and sceptical principles and imaginations / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    {baking of one Leg ; I laid my hand upon her knee, and then the motion ceafed there , and writhed her body; in her going, one Leg was took, as it were, with a cramp; but fome times fhegoeth very yveli ; nothing happens alwayes, and each fometimes ; fometime one member, fome- time another ; fometime in one manner , and fometime in another; fometimes almolt all the members, and fometimes fcarce any. While I was there, Goodwife Halt told me, that the night before the Spirits told her, fhe fhouldnot fleep y *nd would fometimes heave her up in bed, and tell her, Mary> m mil buy yon aflackJJown, Hoods, and Scarfs 3 and Rlbbins, Hay! Ribbing Rlbbins yRibbinsy Rlbbins. Not being fatisfied with what I faw, I went over to Barklnjled to Doctor Woodhonfe, who was her Phyfitian, and he,'told me he really thought (be rvas pojfefed, and he told me two able Phyfitians, (whofe names I have now forgotten) were with her, and told him fhe wasVa- monlacallypojfejfed, a nd that they being very lately in France, faw there a whole Covent of Nunns fo handled as Mary Hall was, With their Abbateffe; onely this Symptome was more in Mary Hally then any of that Covent (who were to the number of thirty poffeffed with Devils) that ere when the Spirits fpoke in Mary Hall, in their prefence , her Throat, on each fide, was extended to the bignefsof a mans hft; Alfo Do&or IVoodhoufe faid , one of her keepers told him , that he and another man held her in her Chair , and foe leaped up from themy and they thought (he would have gone out of their reach , had they not fulled her down and held her - and another time, two men held her, and (he leaped out of her Chair , and until her fit was aver , they could not force her down again: her _ fits commonly are very fhoit , efpecially when they are very often. When (he came to be cured, with Do&or tVoodhoufe, fhe fat very dill a while in his Phyfick room, and on a fuddain, fhe fell a (lamping,- and fo continued half an hour, till (lie was all on a fweat, and made the houfe (hake- ; . , Doctor Woodhoufe , gave her a Venificifuge, a Cbyrrucal preparation, o'tven in the third part of a gtain for one dofeO; plum the (trongeft of all things, many times in a Grain, makes very little alteration in the body; but this tid her, in part for a while, of her fits; but then the Spirits had never fpoke in her: he hath ufed that Venificifuge to other bewitched perfons with good fucceffe; and to a Child of hisownTowr., that the People brought information it was in convulfion fits, he fent convulfive Remedies ; they did no good : then he queflioned the Que¬ rents what fits they were, They come, faid they, every day, at fix of the Clock.-, hewent then to fee it,and found itto begin its fit,with pulling oft its headcloaths;then it fell a pulling off its Hair,and chen fcratching the