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done by their on and by their miracles. As many 
idolatrous and fuperftitious pra&tices have nae grounded on 
a belief of the eae of demons, the prophets of God un- 
der ind New Teitament, as well as thofe “inder the Old, 
have openly taught, what their miracles intimated, the utter 
inability of thefe {pitits to do any good or evil to m eee 
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‘hey have done, however, more than this; they have re- 
prefented all cemons without diftin@ion as mere fictions of 
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the human imagination, aud demont ae their nullity, and 
This was an o h the miffion comprehended, 
and indeed was one principal pole yg of This was one 
end for which our Saviour appeared in the world. ‘This was 
one of the dittinguifhing ea eer oe that pertained to him 
as the Mefliah. He 
and he was expeéted b 
mons; and fo decifive was this evidence of his divine mif- 
fion, and of its grand objeGt, that he himfelf appeals to it, 
and reafons from it in proof of his being a divine Mcflenger 
and Saviour. ‘Tf I caft out demons (fays he) by the Spirit 
of God, then is the kingdom of God come unto you’ — att. 
xi. 28.)3 2.6 If rettore cemonite to their right m 
m of t ffi:h ts peers 
Not Gastying. himfelf with verbally 
» he declares it to have been 
om 
the defign 
were enterta erning them. e ejection of 
mons, truly aan ea, affords one of thofe augnit difplays 
and convincing proofs of the character of Chritt as a Meffiah 
d Redeemer, which were defigned to recommend him to 
the veneration of mankind in all ages of the world. 
ASMONOLOGY. See Demon and Ipovartry. 
DAMONOMANTA, in the Pathology of the older phy- 
ficians, Se Sa that {pecies of infanity or delirium, whether 
real or pretended, which was attributed to the agency of the 
devil, . Of zmons, on the bodies of the individuals fup- 
ade to be pofleffed, or to hold communication with 
Thi is unneceffary, at the prefent day; to enter into argu- 
ments, with a view to c € opinions that ee 
in the ages of ignorance and fuperftition, re{pe€ting the ef- 
feis and eae of d ical pofleffion, See 
moniac. Itm w be generally allowed, that all thofe 
eae ae are eacabls upon more obvious and fatisfactory 
principles : our wonder ts excited, when we obferve the 
minds of Gen enlightened men, as Frederic Hoffmann, fo 
far influenced by the vulgar prejudices of hie age, as to con- 
tend for the reality of fuch poffeffions, and to confider the 
following circumftances as proofs of their a€tual occurrence, 
namely, horrible noifes, indecent gefticulations, and other 
-unufual corporeal motions, as well as convulfions without 
any oe difeafe, blafphemous and obfcene language, 
pre edi future events; the kno owledge of 
dete €8 5 “extraordinary i es , &c. (See ees 
All thefe may be accounted for 
cone deacon of phyfical and fice caufes, of eal oc- 
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currence : and, therefore, we cannot but refer the diffcrent 
fperies of Cemonomania, defcribed by nofologiits, to one or 
other of the following fources: 
Firft, they are inttances of true infanity, either mania or 
meiancholy, or of the temporary delirium . of intoxication. 
Such are the demono 
Method. clafs vii. gen. 2 The hiftory of fanaticifm af. 
fords but too ample proofs o the -madnefs . - who have 
oer fallen under its influence. See TIC. au- 
vages mentions a fet of fanatics, who believed that the ar- 
tillery, by which they were inhumanly flain in crowds, would, 
n confequence of their religious zeal, play upon them with 
emonomania indya is a 
\ eet, cry ying, aiMORy 
exyt is termed by Euro 
peans, “ run See CEYL 
Secondly, hele Capea cafes of ans niacal poffeffion 
were, in ot inftances, the refults of certain difeafes, 
falfely en oe by the by-fanders to the power of de- 
mons. Tus various convullive fymptoms, trifmus, and 
tetanus, diftortions of the body, fcreamings, delirium, &c. 
originating obvioufly from irritations in the bowelsA or dein, 
or in the fealp, as from fupprefled plica polonica, (Sauvages, 
fp. 8. alfo fp. 4. 6. and g.) and ceafing with the removal of 
thofe irritations by ae emetics, and other me 
ave been enumerated a e examples of demon 
poficffion, and ser c te charms and incantations of 
witchcraft. 
ae thirdly, other inftances of demonomania, and thofe 
unting to no {ma. 
were decidedly dec 
senultis 
de ch are the three firit fpecies of Sauvages ns 
onomania fagarum, demonomania vam irifmus, and 
monomania fimulata. he opinion that certain catens — 
a compact with demons, have obtained grea wers over 
the lives and conditions of the reft 
iad jaa Saad Sono of mankind, in feveral ways. 
nt perfonages have, in fome inftances; effeGed 
their ce by — {trong impreffions on the mind ; 
the influence of which on 
sad _ are far bettie with 
Getic was Tel employed. The 
employed certain narcotic drugs, which roduce 
rangement ‘of the nervous fyitem, a tem orary delirium, 
much dreaming, ora pleafurable fort of intoxication, when 
the operation of the excited imagination itfelf, as well as of 
the wizzard upon it, was attributed : the power of his dia- 
bolical agency. later times, the Mefmers and De 
Mainuducs have employed the ae means of deranging 
ftrong impreffions on 
is by 
name, an obfolete car See Callen. Nofol. Method. 
geo 
DAERSTETTEN, or pep tues in Geography, a 
{mall town of Switzerla : or, pe is now eae of the 
Helvetic republic, ree in ee f Ber n the 
diftiG of Wimmis. It had anaeney a ne nonlin 
of 
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