933 Pharmaceutical Journal.

934 John Russell’s Boke of Nurture, 991-1000.

935 Pellitory of the wall, which abounds in nitrate of potass.

936 Probably Peucedanum officinale.

937 Danewort.

938 St. John’s wort.

939 Centaury.

940 Plantain.

941 Glechoma hederacea.

942 Galium Aparine, prescribed in Leechdoms, v. 2, p. 345, for a “salve against the elfin race and nocturnal [goblin] visitors, and for the woman with whom the devil hath carnal commerce.”

943 Avens.

944 Bruise wort, pimpernel, or perhaps for Hembriswort, daisy.

945 Smallage, or wild-water parsley.

946 Brooklime.

947 Scabious.

948 John Russell’s Boke of Nurture, Harl. MS. 4011, Fol. 171. The notes are from Dr. Furnivall’s edition.

949 State Trials, 951.

950 Dr. E. B. Tylor, art. “Magic,” Ency. Brit. See Ellis, Polynesian Researches; Turner, Nineteen Years in Polynesia; Polack, Manners and Customs of New Zealanders; Waitz, vols. v., vi.; all works mentioned by Dr. Tylor.

951 Saxon Leechdoms, vol. i. Pref., xxxii.

952 Nat. Hist., Book xxx. chap. i.

953 Goodwin, Lives of the Necromancers, pp. 127-132.

954 Heroid., vi. 91.

“Simulacraque cerea fingit,
Et miserum tenuis in jecur urget acus.”

955 Gordon Cumming’s Wanderings in China, vol. i. p. 336.

956 Vol. i. p. 336. See also In the Hebrides, pp. 263-265. C. F. Gordon-Cumming.

957 Ethnology in Folklore, p. 51.

958 Plato, Laws, lib. xi.

959 Nat. Hist., Book xxviii. ch. 24.

960 Ethnology in Folklore, p. 87.

961 Idyl ii.

962 Hecker’s Epidemics, p. 102.

963 Book xxi. 92.

964 Book xxiv. 42.

965 Sir James Emerson Tennent’s Ceylon, vol. ii. p. 545.

966 Custom and Myth, p. 200.

967 Ibid., p. 169.

968 Records of the Past, vol. iii. p. 141.

969 Saxon Leechdoms.

970 Eynatten, Manualis Exorcismorum, 1619, p. 220, quoted in Saxon Leechdoms, vol. i. Preface, p. xliv.

971 Short Discoverie, etc., 4to, London, 1612, p. 71.

972 Brand’s Popular Antiquities, 1842, vol. iii. p. 6.

973 London, 1886, p. 167.

974 Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie.

975 Mysteries of Magic, Waite, pp. 167, 168.

976 Daily Chronicle, June 11th, 1892.

977 Simpson, “Ancient Buddhist Remains in Afghanistan,” Fraser’s Mag., New Ser., No. cxxii., Feb. 1880, pp. 197, 198.

978 Mysteries of Magic, A. E. Waite (London, 1886), p. 135.

979 Mysteries of Magic, p. 157.

980 Dyer, English Folklore, p. 154.

981 Denny’s Folklore of China, p. 51; Irish Popular and Medical Superstitions, p. 3.

982 Folk Medicine, p. 99.

983 Notes and Queries, 5th S., vol. vi. p. 97.

984 Folk Medicine, p. 33.

985 Pliny.

986 Primitive Culture, vol. ii. p. 137.

987 Folk Medicine, p. 41.

988 Paris’s Pharmacologia, p. 51.

989 The Doctor, p. 59.

990 Vol. ii. pp. 175, et seq.

991 Whewell, Hist. of Scientific Ideas, vol. ii. p. 184.

992 Whewell, Hist. of Scientific Ideas, vol. ii. p. 185.

993 Περὶ ψυχῆς, ii. 2.

994 Life of Dr. Cullen, vol. i. p. 102.

995 Whewell’s History of Scientific Ideas, vol. ii. pp. 16, 17.

996 Cap. xiv. p. 233.

997 Thomson’s Life of Cullen, vol. i. pp. 177, 178.

998 Thomson’s Life of Cullen, vol. i. pp. 177, 178.

999 Cullen’s Works, vol. i. pp. 405, 406.

1000 Thomson’s Life of Dr. Cullen, vol. i. p. 185.

1001 Baas, Hist. Med., p. 750.

1002 Works, vol. i. p. 442.

1003 Thomson’s Life of Cullen, vol. ii. p. 134.

1004 Munk’s Roll of the R. Coll. Phys.

1005 Ibid., vol. ii. p. 262. He published in 1765, A Discourse on the Institution of Medical Schools in America.

1006 Philosophical Transactions, vol. xlix. p. 477, and Munk’s Roll of the R. Coll. Phys., vol. ii. p. 282. This was one of the cases in which experiments on the lower animals have been of service to mankind. Mr. Spry’s character for veracity seems to have been re-established by them.

1007 Baas, Hist. Med., p. 648.

1008 The Gold-headed Cane.

1009 Medica Sacra (1755), pp. 21, 22.

1010 Surgical Dictionary, art. “Surgery.”

1011 Resection is the removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

1012 Puschmann, Hist. Med. Education, p. 422.

1013 Hist. Med. Education, p. 427.

1014 Baas, Hist. Med., p. 677.

1015 Munk’s Roll of the Royal Coll. Phys., vol. ii. p. 125.

1016 Ibid.

1017 Ibid., p. 130.

1018 Literature of Europe, vol. iv. p. 354.

1019 Munk’s Roll of the R. Coll. Phys., vol. ii. p. 408.

1020 Roll of the R. Coll. of Phys., vol. ii. p. 160.

1021 Baas, Hist. Med., p. 713.

1022 Published by the Pharmaceutical Society, 1880.

1023 Hist. Med., p. 868.

1024 Letter to Hufeland.

1025 Medical Profession, p. 93.

1026 Medical Profession, p. 93.

1027 De Magnete, p. 48.

1028 Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sciences, vol. iii. p. 7.

1029 History of Inventions, vol. i. p. 72.

1030 Ibid., p. 74.

1031 Laënnec, Treatise on Diseases of the Chest, p. 5.

1032 A few only of the more prominent physicians, surgeons, and scientists are mentioned here; to do more would interfere with the plan of this work.

1033 Ency. Brit., art. “Animal Magnetism,” vol. xv. p. 279.

1034 Voyage fait à Londres en 1814. See also Cooper’s Surgical Dict., art. “Fractures.”

1035 “Discovery of Chloroform,” in Miller’s Surgery, pp. 756-758, 2nd Ed.

1036 p. 28.

1037 Ency. Brit., art. “Insanity.”

1038 Hospitals and Asylums of the World.

1039 Adams’ Hippocrates, vol. i. p. 77.

1040 Ency. Brit., art. “Insanity.”

1041 Hospitals and Asylums, vol. i. p. 62.

1042 Hist. Med., p. 347.

1043 Cruikshank, Bacteriology, p. 2.

1044 Woodhead, Bacteria and their Products, p. 52.

1045 Opera Medico-Physica, Tractatio de Contagio, le Lue Bovina, de Variolis; de Scarlatina.

1046 Bacteria and their Products, p. 59.

1047 Schwann (1810-1882) discovered the influence of the lower fungi in causing fermentation and putrefaction, so that he may be called the father of the germ theory of disease.

1048 Manual of Bacteriology, p. 16.

1049 Bacteria and their Products, p. 328.

1050 See Appendix E, Cruikshank’s Bacteriology, p. 414.

1051 Cruikshank, Bacteriology, p. 192.

1052 Ibid., p. 196.

1053 Woodhead, Bacteria, etc., p. 327.

1054 Parkes’ Hygiene, Introduction.

1055 Baas, Hist. of Med., p. 1083.

1056 Lancet, Oct. 29th, 1892, p. 1013.

1057 Professor Charcot in the New Review, Jan., 1893.

1058 See p. 320 of this work.

1059 Charcot, The Faith Cure.

1060 Baas, Hist. Med., p. 1100.

1061 Ency. Brit., art. “Physiology,” vol. xix. p. 23.