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WITCHCRAFT and the witchcraft persecutions were a manifestation of the hysteria endemic among the European populations of the Middle Ages; and after the Renaissance, even when the flame of seventeenth century fanaticism, which made a belief in witchcraft a test of orthodoxy, had died down, sporadic outbursts of popular excitement still showed that the evil had not been completely allayed.
The Medical Man and the Witch during the Renaissance
By Dr. Gregory Zilboorg. (The Hideyo Noguchi Lectures.) (Publications of the Institute of the History of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University, Third Series, Vol. 2.) Pp. x + 215 + 5 plates. (Baltimore, Md.: The Johns Hopkins Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1935.) 11s. 6d. net.
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The Medical Man and the Witch during the Renaissance. Nature 136, 660 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136660a0
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