CONTENTS

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I.What is Medical Superstition?[1]
II.Theism in Its Relation to Medicine and in Its Struggle with the Physico-Mechanical Theory of Life[7]
III.Religion the Support Of Medical Superstition[23]
IV.The Influence Of Philosophy Upon the Form and Origin of Medical Superstition[89]
V.The Relations of Natural Science to Medical Superstition[128]
VI.Influence Exerted Upon the Development of Superstition by Medicine Itself[185]
VII.Medical Superstition and Insanity[191]
Bibliography[201]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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CIRCLE OF PETOSIRIS[141]
CIRCLE OF PETOSIRIS[143]
THE TABLE OF DEMOCRITUS[145]
THE RELATION OF THE PARTS OF THE HUMAN BODY TO THE SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC[159]
VENESECTION IN ITS ASTRONOMICAL CONNECTION[175]