Superstition in Medicine

Title: Superstition in Medicine

Author: Magnus, Hugo and Julius L. Salinger, ed.

Publication: New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1908.

Description: An account of the history of superstition in medicine, including astrology, magic, and occult practices. Second edition. Translated from the German into English. In full green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. 7.5 x 5 inches; ix, [1], 205, [1] pages. From the library of Dr. Herbert Silvette, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. Silvette was a physiologist and pharmacologist at the University of Virginia Medical School and author of "The Doctor on the Stage: Medicine and Medical Men in Seventeenth Century England." Mild shelfwear and spotting to the endpapers, else a clean and attractive copy. Very Good+. Contents: What is medical superstition? -- Medicine and theism. -- Religion and medical superstition. -- Philosophy and superstition. -- Science and superstition. -- False medical theory. Medical superstition and insanity.