ted so as to take weeks to heal, united in as many
days. Mark this, however: the wounds treated were simple incisions,
the ones which most readily united if cleansed, brought together, and
left alone. Gunshot and similar wounds were not treated by this
process.[88]

[76] T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions Connected
with ... Medicine and Surgery_, pp. 63 f.

[77] _Gentleman's Magazine_, LVIII, pp. 586 and 695.

[78] H. Arnot, _History of Edinburgh_.

[79] _Pharmacologia_, p. 51.

[80] _The Doctor_, p. 59.

[81] For a discussion on the doctrine of signatures see
T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions_, etc., pp. 33 f.; E.
Berdoe, _Origin and Growth of the Healing Art_, pp. 327
and 416 f.; A. D. White, _History of the Warfare of
Science with Theology_, II, pp. 38 f.; Eccles,
_Evolution of Medical Science_, pp. 140 f.

[82] J. Brand, _Popular Antiquities_, III, p. 153. In
references to this work, the edition used was that
edited by W. Carew Hazlitt.

[83] _The Loseley Manuscripts_, pp. 263 f., quoted by
Berdoe.

[84] Bede, _Ecclesiastical History_, bk. V, chap. III.

[85] G. F. Fort, _History of Medical Economy During the
Middle Ages_, p. 299.

[86] W. A. Hammond, _Spiritualism and Nervous
Derangement_, p. 175.

[87] Sir Kenelm Digby, _A late discovery made in solemne
assembly of nobles and learned men, at Montpellier, in
France, touching the cure of wounds, by the Powder of
Sympathy_, etc.

[88] I am indebted to T. J. Pettigrew, _Superstitions
Connected with the History and Practice of Surgery and
Medicine_, pp. 201-213; C. Mackay, _Extraordinary
Popular Delusions_, pp. 266-268; W. A. Hammond,
_Spiritualism and Nervous Derangement_, pp. 170-176; for
the material on the subject of sympathetic cures.

CHAPTER VII

AMULETS

"He loved and was beloved; what more could he desire as
an amulet against fear?"--BULWER-LYTTON.

"Such medicines are to be exploded that consist of
words, characters, spells, and charms, which can do no
good at all, but out of a strong conceit, as Pomponatius
proves; or the Devil's policy, who is the first founder
and teacher of them."--BURTON.

"Old wives and starres are his councellors; his
nightspell is his guard, and charms his physician. He
wears Paracelsian characters for the toothache; and a
little hallowed wax is his antidote for all
evils."--BISHOP HALL.

"Neither doth Fansie o