APPENDIX I.

OPPOSITION TO SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS. [390]

The Popes as patrons of scientific education.

Swift on genius and assinine opposition.

Allston on truth in unusual form.

"Nonsense" and "absurd" on scientists' tongues.

Jordan on human conservatism.

Galileo's letter to Kepler, on "logic" and science.

Huxley on Galileo.

De Morgan on other cases.

Dogmatism and folly.

Persecution of scientists.

Harvey, Vesalius, Servetus, Steno.

Not confined to old times, Jenner, Auenbrugger, Laennec, Thomas Young, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Semmelweiss.

Opposition in other sciences.

Ohm.

Young men and discoveries.

Pasteur and rabies.

Our universities and economics.

Conservatism still active.

The lesson.

APPENDIX II.

LATIN TEXT OF PAPAL BULLS AND DECREES. [413]

De Sepulturis.

De Crimine Falsi.

Super Illius specula.

Bulls for erection of Universities of Perugia and Cahors.

APPENDIX III.

Emperor Frederick's Law Regulating the Practice of Medicine (1231) [419]

APPENDIX IV.

CHURCH DECREES RELATING TO MEDICINE. [424]

Prohibition of the study and practice of medicine and law to members of religious orders.

Text of the decrees.

Significance of the prohibition.

Not all priests, but only members of religious orders involved.

Church decrees as to the physician's duty in securing the last rites of the Church for his patients when in danger of death.

Text of the decrees.

Misunderstanding.

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APPENDIX V.