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The story is about digital humanities research materials: Medicine Magic and The Hidden Occult. It consists of doctors medical records and diagnostic charts about witchcraft from 400 years ago. It might be worth checking out the original materials [See links] Just to see what medicine looked like historically. Warning illegible handwriting of doctors existed in the 17th century and there may be secret spells or results of spells.
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Hedge witches were protected as doctors in some baronies of Europe as healers outside the walls of the towns. Doctors bled people and hedge witches prescribed herbal treatments. It was possibly the remnants of the Cultus of Pharmakos or Asklepios Glykon see unverified article on this external website, and on also on gypsypagan.com in the health and wellness section here. “The poison was the cure”
For those interested in the ancient Roman magic on this topic please search here: for the sanctuary of Neos Asklepios Glykon
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Suspects some witch because it takes his wife very strangely & also his child at diff[erent] times. Very ill. Was advised by one Andrew Ward an Alsman [almsman?] in Rowell an old man to put of some of his wife’s hair [between lines: in the fore part of her head] in 4 places before & nape of the neck behind & over both ears, & then to bore thorough any of her ears to get some of her blood also a farthing worth of brimstone a farthing worth of rosen [resin] bind all together & fling it into the fire any time of the day. If it leaps out to put it in again. If any came for anything not to let them have anything. One Goody Barton came to borrow it & brought it presently again.
Featured IMAGE: An example of a spread from one of the volumes of casebooks held in Oxford’s Bodleian Library that have been edited and digitised for the new online edition. view more Credit: Bodleian Library, Oxford Simon Forman and his protégé Richard Napier were infamous in early 17th-century England for […]
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“It’s taken ten years to sift through, edit and digitise all of the cases of Forman and Napier. The Casebooks Project has opened a wormhole into the grubby and enigmatic world of seventeenth-century medicine, magic and the occult,” said Kassell, from Cambridge’s History and Philosophy of Science Department.
Lauren Kassell
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Lauren Kassell Oxford Historical Monographs: Medicine and Magic in Elizabethan London
Paperback
Published: 01 February 2007
300 Pages | 26 b/w in-text illustrations, tables
234x156mm
ISBN: 9780199215270
Simon Forman (1552-1611) is one of London’s most infamous astrologers. He stood apart from the medical elite because he was not formally educated and because he represented, and boldly asserted, medical ideas that were antithetical to those held by most learned physicians.
The transcriptions are now online here: https://casebooks.wordpress.com/. The complete casebooks edition can be found at: https://casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk/, which houses digitisations of all 80,000 cases worth of original notes in the hand of both astrologers. After centuries contained within 66 calf-bound volumes in Oxford’s Bodleian Library, these extraordinary archives can now be searched and browsed online by anyone.
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