On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew.

  • Pettigrew, Thomas Joseph, 1791-1865.
Date:
1844
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On superstitions connected with the history and practice of medicine and surgery / By Thomas Joseph Pettigrew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    vination—Prohibition of Priests to practice Me- dicine and Surgery—Various Decrees of Coun- cils to effect the same—Miraculous Cures by the Interposition of Saints—Particular Saints for special diseases—Holy Cures—Holy Wells and Fountains—Relics of Saints cal—Magical—Mixed—Sigilla Planetarum — Hebrew Names and Characters—Phylacteries —Characts ; ‘ eris—Odd Number eae axas—Abracadabra tion ; for Protection against Diseases in gene- ral; against Accidents; against Malignant In- fluences—Evil Eye—Epilepsy—Convulsions and Fits—Hysteria—St. Vitus’s Dance—Mad- ness—Palsy— Sciatica—Lameness—Headach —'Toothach — Plague—Fevers—A gue—Hec- tic Fever and Consumption—Glacach—Hoop- ing-cough — Gout —Scrofula—Rickets—Sore Iyyes—Marasmus—Calculus-—Cholera—Jaun- dice— W orms— Venomous Bites—Tarantula— Erysipelas— Burns—Thorns —Warts—-Small- pox——Hemorrhage and Hemorrhoids—- Sterility —Childbirth—Child’s Caul—Cramp—Incubus —Power of the Imagination—Effects of ‘Terror upon the Colour of the Hair; in dissipating Pain; in curing Diseases—Anger—Gricf— Fear — Joy — Sudden Death—Sy mpathies— Passions productive of Diseases—Effects of Imagination — Metallic Tractors — Medical Faith—Religious Feeling—Prince Hohenlohe’s Cases—Importance of attending to the mental Condition of the Sick . ; ‘ growth--commenced with Edward the Confes- sor and continued to the time of Queen Anne —French kings practised it—Historical evi- dences—Error of Dr. Plot—Presentation of a PAGE 41-61 62-65 66-76 77-118 119-152