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History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

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345 and following.

Still another of these prescriptions given by Cockayne covers three or four octavo pages.

For very full details of this sort of sacred pseudo-science in Germany, with accounts of survivals of it at the present time, see Wuttke, Prof.der Theologie in Halle, Der Deutsche Volksaberglaube der Gegenwart, Berlin, 1869, passim.

For France, see Rambaud, Histoire de la Civilisation francaise, pp.

371 et seq.
As to surgery, this same amalgamation of theology with survivals of pagan beliefs continued to check the evolution of medical science down to the modern epoch.


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