CONTENTS

1. Cover Image
2. Title Page
3. Epigraph
4. Acknowledgements
5. Introduction
   1. CHRISTIANITY
   2. MAGIC THERAPY
   3. DIAGNOSIS
   4. THE OPINION OF MEDIEVAL AND SIXTEENTH-CENTURY DOCTORS
   5. CURIOSITIES IN HEALING PRACTICES
   6. MAGICAL PROTECTION
   7. THE TRANSMISSION OF HEALING AND PROTECTION PRACTICES
   8. NOTE ON THIS EDITION
6. Chapter 1: Diagnoses
7. Chapter 2: The Illnesses of Humans and Their Cure
   1. ABSCESS, TUMOR
   2. AFFLICTION
   3. ANGINA (SORE THROAT)
   4. ANTHRAX
   5. BIRTH
   6. BITES
   7. BLEEDING
   8. BLINDNESS
   9. BOILS
   10. BURNS
   11. CANKER
   12. CATARRH
   13. CHARBON (ANTHRAX)
   14. COLIC
   15. CONSTIPATION
   16. COUGH
   17. CRAMPS AND SPASMS
   18. CUTS
   19. DEAFNESS
   20. DRY PATCH
   21. EPILEPSY
   22. ERYSIPELAS
   23. ÉTISIE (CONSUMPTION)
   24. EYE AILMENTS
   25. FATIGUE
   26. FEAR
   27. FEVER
   28. FLUX
   29. GOUT
   30. HEADACHE
   31. HEATSTROKE, SUNSTROKE
   32. HEMORRHOIDS
   33. HICCUPS
   34. HYDROPS OR DROPSY (EDEMA)
   35. HYSTERIA
   36. ILLNESSES IN GENERAL
   37. IMPETIGO
   38. INFLAMMATION
   39. INSOMNIA
   40. JAUNDICE
   41. LACTATION
   42. LETHARGY
   43. LEUCOMA
   44. LOSS OF SPEECH
   45. LUMPS
   46. LUNACY
   47. LUXATION (DISLOCATION)
   48. MADNESS
   49. MALEMORT (TRAGIC OR SUDDEN DEATH)
   50. MULTIPLE-PURPOSE RECIPES
   51. NEVUS
   52. NIGHTMARE
   53. NOSEBLEED (EPISTAXIS)
   54. PAIN, BLADDER
   55. PAIN, GROIN
   56. PAIN, JOINTS
   57. PAIN, KIDNEY
   58. PAINS, MULTIPLE
   59. PAIN, NECK
   60. PALPITATIONS
   61. PAROTIDES
   62. PLAGUE
   63. PLEURISY
   64. POISON AND VENOM
   65. PUSTULE
   66. RABIES
   67. RASH OR OTHER OUTBREAK
   68. RHEUM
   69. RHEUMATISM
   70. RICKETS
   71. RINGWORM
   72. SAINT ANTHONY’S FIRE, HOLY FIRE
   73. SCABIES
   74. SCARLET FEVER
   75. SCIATICA
   76. SCROFULA
   77. SCURVY
   78. THE SHAKES
   79. SHINGLES
   80. SHOT AND PROJECTILES
   81. SPASMODIC SOB
   82. SPLEEN
   83. SPRAIN
   84. STERILITY
   85. STING
   86. STOMACHACHE
   87. STOMACH GROWLS
   88. STYE
   89. SWOLLEN GLANDS
   90. SYPHILIS
   91. THORN
   92. THROAT PROBLEMS
   93. TONGUE BUMPS (TRANSIENT LINGUAL PAPILLITIS)
   94. TONSILLITIS
   95. TOOTHACHE
   96. TUBERCULOSIS
   97. TUBERCULOSIS OF THE BONE
   98. TUMOR
   99. ULCER
   100. UVEITIS
   101. VARICOSE VEINS
   102. VEIN SPASM
   103. VERTIGO
   104. WARTS
   105. WHITLOW (FINGER OR TOENAIL ABSCESS)
   106. WORMS
   107. WOUNDS
8. Chapter 3: Evil Spells
9. Chapter 4: Devils and Demons
10. Chapter 5: Fantastic Beings and Spirits
11. Chapter 6: Healing of Animals
    1. BLOOD FLOW
    2. BOUQUET (SHEEP SCAB)
    3. CANKER
    4. CHARBON (ANTHRAX)
    5. FARCY
    6. FERTILITY
    7. GANGLIA
    8. LAMINITIS
    9. NAIL WOUND
    10. PARALYSIS OF HORSES
    11. SPRAIN
    12. TRENCHES OF HORSES
    13. UNSPECIFIED DISEASES
12. Chapter 7: Protections
    1. PROTECTIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
    2. PROTECTION OF PROPERTY
    3. PROTECTION OF CROPS AGAINST METEORS
    4. PROTECTIONS OF THE HOUSE
    5. PROTECTION OF ANIMALS
13. Appendix I: Medical Magic in Italy during the Fourteenth–Fifteenth Centuries
14. Appendix II: The Activities of Sorcerers
15. Appendix III: The Use of Encrypted Spells
16. Appendix IV: Superstitious Healing Methods According to Fernel
17. Appendix V: Knotting the Breeches Laces
18. Appendix VI: Several Popular Saints Invoked in France and Belgium for Illnesses and Protection
19. Appendix VII: The Protective Talismans of Balinas (Apollonius de Tyane)
    1. AGAINST HEMORRHAGE
    2. FOR EPILEPSY
    3. TO BE IN SAFETY
20. Footnotes
21. Endnotes
22. Bibliography
23. About the Author
24. About Inner Traditions • Bear & Company
25. Books of Related Interest
26. Copyright & Permissions
27. Index