| Description Of Item | Notes from or on: Victor de Bonagentibus; Marsilius Ficinus; D Sennertius; disinfection; witchcraft (Elgin); mus decumanus; John Mean (plague); Barnabo Visconti; Sulphur fumigation; catramenia; Dioscorides (milk); Spon's history of Geneva, Switzerland; Evagrius (plague); Thomas the Rhymer; plague of Milan, Italy; nose (significance); Jews, persecution of; Procopius (plague); Gregory of Tours; Galen's epidemiology; Vitruvius; various plague tractates; Frederick III (receipts); XV century plague tractate; Galen (De Differentiis Febrium); Alexander Benedictus; Brucellopsis in horses; fear of the dead; Gilbert Skene; early anti-vaccinators; Jurin smallpox mortality; buying smallpox; syphilis, early writers; Idea Medicinae Veterum; De Abditis Rerum Causis; De Veneno Pestilenti; folk lore Portknockie; Ranchin on plague (Montpellier); Dumfries & Plague; Canadian Indian taboos; typhoid and paratyhpus (Nerlich); bulls horn in fumigation; cats and contagion; plague tractates; Die lehre von der kontagion bei den Arabem; plague (varia); Solomon Islands; exanthematologia; diphtheria; folk lore and folk medicine (varia); fertility charm (Akamba); Nagas; folklore of birds; Lamia; adoption rite (Circassia); Min Chia folk lore (Yunnan); pulmonary tublerculosis; pre-animism; Assam hill tribes; Vedda cult of dead; foot washing; amulets; toads and cancer; Albertus Magnus; quail and epilepsy; notes from Aleš Hrdlicka; and girdles etc. |