flourished in the thirteenth century, although a monk, yet practised
medicine. Nicolas de Farnham, a physician to Henry III, was created
Bishop of Durham; and many doctors of medicine were at various times
elevated to ecclesiastical dignities."[19]

The grip of the church accomplished its purpose, and science,
especially the science of medicine, was strangled, almost to the
death. Even the people of the time recognized the shortcomings of the
physicians. Henricus Cornelius Agrippa (1486-1535), writing in 1530,
said with pleasant irony that physic was "a certaine Arte of
manslaughter," and that "well neare alwaies there is more daunger in
the Physition and the Medicine than in the sicknesse itselfe." He also
gives the following picture of a fashionable doctor of his time: "Clad
in brave apparaile, having ringes on his fingers glimmeringe with
pretious stoanes, and which hath gotten fame and credence for having
been in farre countries, or having an obstinate manner of vaunting
with stiffe lies that he hath great remedies, and for having
continually in his mouth many wordes halfe Greeke and barbarous....
But this will prove to be true, that Physitians moste commonlye be
naught. They have one common honour with the hangman, that is to saye,
to kill menne and to be recompensed therefore."[20]

[3] A. D. White, _History of the Warfare of Science with
Theology_, II, p. 113.

[4] E. Salverte, _Philosophy of Magic_ (trans.
Thompson), II, p. 94.

[5] W. E. H. Lecky, _History of European Morals_, I, p.
378.

[6] _Ibid._, I, p. 383.

[7] _Reponse a l'histoire des oracles_, p. 296.

[8] A. D. White, _History of the Warfare of Science with
Theology_, II, p. 101.

[9] H. T. Buckle, _History of Civilization in England_,
II, p. 270.

[10] G. F. Fort, _History of Medical Economy During the
Middle Ages_, p. 201.

[11] For a full discussion of this subject, see A. D.
White, _History of the Warfare of Science with
Theology_, II, pp. 97-134.

[12] A. D. White, _History of the Warfare of Science
with Theology_, II, p. 128.

[13] Nash, _Life of Lord Westbury_, II, p. 78.

[14] Cockayne, _Leechdoms, Wort-cunning, and Star-craft
of Early England_, II, p. 177.

[15] M. H. Dziewicki, "Exorcizo Te," _Nineteenth
Century_, XXIV, p. 580.

[16] For a full discussion of this subject, see A. D.
White, _History of the Warfare of Science with
Theology_, II, pp. 1-167.

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