Plagues, poisons and potions: plague-spreading conspiracies in the western Alps c. 1530–1640

(p. 258). That this could take on the functions of the soul was recognized (and welcomed). Francois Azouvi examines the work of Pierre Cabanais. Drawing from his predecessors, Cabanais distinguished physical man from moral or interior man, whose nature resides in the brain. Since the brain acts upon the other organs, then the physical/moral relationship is essentially physical (p. 272). This new type of dualism led to the "physical/psychological dualism" of twentieth-century psychology (pp. 278-9). Although there are absent friends (Neoplatonism and Avicenna, for example), and Galen's work and influence would have been better handled in a separate chapter, this book is a thoughtful introduction to the soul-body relationship and its continuing relevance.