History of dentistry
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disturbed individuals. Many of Napier's patients believed themselves bewitched or possessed, and although Napier himself used occult procedures in making diagnoses casting horoscopes or conjuring up the Archangel Raphael he approached his patients with a subtle blend of shrewdness and common sense. For Napier, the "supernatural" was just as real as the "natural". Macdonald's discussions of religion, magic, and witchcraft complement those of Keith Thomas, to whom he acknowledges his indebtedness. Like Thomas, he finds a perceptible decline in the pervasiveness of fervent religious belief as the seventeenth century turned into the eighteenth and doctors and liberally-minded clergymen viewed as disease the religious enthusiasms of an earlier generation. For the insane, he contends, the triumph of the rational, scientific outlook of the Enlightenment was "a disaster" (p. 230). This probably overstates the case, for our own knowledge of eighteenth-century psychiatry is still limited. We need a Macdonald of the Enlightenment: someone who will go beyond the caricatures and stereotypes for that period as he has so eloquently achieved for the age of Robert Burton and Richard Napier. It is a shame that the Cambridge University Press have seen fit to stick so appalling a price on a book which deserves such wide circulation. W. F. Bynum Wellcome Institute
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 26 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1982