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NEW CHAPTERS /.Y THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE. 23 cures snake-bite ; red flannel, looking like blood, is supposed to cure blood-taints, and therefore rheumatism ; bear's grease, being taken from an animal thickly covered with hair, is recommended to persons fearing baldness.* Still another injury was wrought by this theological pseudo- science. One of the ideas it eA'olved was that of disgusting the demon with the body which he tormented : hence the patient was made to swallow or apply to himself var...ious unspeakable ordures, with such medicines as the livers of toads, the blood of frogs and rats, fibers of the hangman's rope, and ointment made from the body of gibbeted criminals. Many of these were sur- vivals of heathen superstitions, but theologic reasoning wrought into them an orthodox significance. As an example of this mixt- ure of heathen with Christian magic, we may cite the follow- ing from a mediteval medical book as a salve against "noctur- nal goblin visitors": "Take hop plant, wormwood, bishopwort, lupine, ash -throat, henbane, harewort, viper's bugloss, heath- berry plant, cropleek, garlic, grains of hedgerife, githrife, and fennel.
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