Historical Witchcraft and Psychiatric Illness in Western Europe

Illness and healing alternatives in western Europe

physicians to hone their clinical skills. However, German doctors seemingly felt that hospital training was a worthless preparation for private practice, since the individuality of the sick vanished in the wards and the hapless inmates were reduced to their diseases. This development stood in sharp contrast to conditions in France and readers might have expected a brief explanation concerning t...

Historical Dictionary of Witchcraft

Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe

B etween the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries, as many as one million individuals in Europe were executed for the crime of witchcraft. The majority of the trials and executions took place during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During this period, the speed and volume of executions were astonishing: in one German town, as many as 400 people were killed in a single day (Midelfort, 197...

Witchcraft and magic in Europe. Volume 3: The Middle Ages

universities outside Germany like Montpellier, Basle, and Cambridge. The activities of Simone Simoni (1532-1602) at Geneva, Heidelberg and Leipzig are instructive in this respect, as was shown long ago by Frank Ludwig (Neues Archiv fiir siichsische Geschichte und Altertumskunde, 1909, 30: 209-90). Equally, while Paracelsus' own view of the body militated against any commitment to anatomical stu...

liver illness and psychiatric patients

patients with psychiatric disorders are usually more exposed to multiple somatic illnesses, including liver diseases. specific links are established between psychiatric disorders and alcohol hepatitis, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c in the population as a whole, and specifically in drug abusers. metabolic syndrome criteria, and associated steatosis or non-alcoholic steato-hepatitis (nash) are fre...