TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



FACIE 



Beauvais. Fables and Popular Errors. Jean Dondi. Bartholomew Glanvil. 

 Naturalist Travellers. Aristotle and Pliny restored to honour. Gardens in the 

 Sixteenth Century. The Conquests of Science in Travel. Bernard Palissy. 

 G. Agricola. Conrad Gesner. Methods of Botany. Painters and Engravers of 

 Natural History. 



MEDICAL SCIENCES 134 



Decline of Medicine after the death of Hippocrates. The School of Galen. The School 

 of Alexandria. Talismans and Orisons against Illness. Monastic Medicine. Female 

 Doctors. The Arab Schools. The Schools of Naples, Monte Casino, and Salerno. 

 The Hospitallers. The School of Cordova.' Epidemics coming from the East.' The 

 appearance of Military Surgery. The Schools of Montpellier and Paris. Lanfranc as 

 upholder of Surgery. College of St. Cosmo at Paris. Guy de Chauliac. Rivalry of 

 the Surgeons and the Barbers. Medical Police. The Occult Sciences in Medicine. 

 Kivalry of the Surgeons and the Doctors. The Doctors in the Sixteenth Century. 

 Andrew Vesalius. Ambroise Pare. 



CHEMISTRY AND ALCHEMY . ..174 



Diocletian burns the Books of Chemistry. Huroun Al-Raschid protects the Sacred Art. 

 Geber, one of the first Chemists. Rhazes. Chemistry in honour amongst the 

 Saracens. Avicenna, Serapion, Mesue. Albucasis and Averroes. Morienus the 

 Solitary. Albertus Magnus and Gerbert. Vincent of Beauvais. Raymond Lulli. 

 The Lullists, or Dreamers. Arnauld de Villeneuve. Roger Bacon. Invention of 

 Spectacles.- Alchemy in the Fifteenth Century.. J. B. Porta, the Italian. Origin 

 of the Rosicrucians. Paracelsus. George Agricola. Conrad Gesner. Cornelius 

 Agrippa. The Story of Nicholas Flamel. Alchemy engenders Metallurgy. 



THE OCCULT SCIENCES . . . ' . 200 



The Origin of Magic. The Savants and Philosophers reputed to be Magicians. 

 Different Forms of Occult Sciences. Oneiromancy. Oneirocritics and Diviners. 

 Necromancy. Practices of the Necromancers. Astrology. Celebrated Astrologers. 

 Chiromancy. Aeromancy and other kinds of Divination. The Angelic Art and 

 the Notorious Art. The Spells of the Saints. Magic. The Evocation of Good and 

 Evil Genii. Pacts with Demons. Celebrated Magicians. Formula and Circles. 

 Incense and Perfumes. Talismans and Images. The tormenting of Wax Images. 

 The Sagittarii. The Evil Eye. Magic Alchemy. Cabalism. The Fairies, Elfs, 

 and Spirits. The "Were-wolves. The Sabbath. A Trial for Sorcery. 



POPULAR BELIEFS 28? 



Superstitions derived from Paganism. Saturnalia of the Ancients. Festival of the 

 Barbatorii. Ft stival of the Deacons. The Liberty of December, or the Fools' Feast. 

 Festival of the Ass. The Sens Ritual. Feast of the Innocents. The Moneys of 

 the Innocents and the Fools. Brotherhood of the Mire Sotte.The Mere Folk of 

 Dijon. The Serpent, or the Devil. Purgatory of St. Patrick. The Wandering Jew. 

 The Antichrist and the End of the World. The Prophecies of the Sibyls, of 



Merlin, and of Nostradamus. Dreams and Visions. Spectres and Apparitions. 



Prodigies. Talismans. 



