[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.