. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , itis good that thou prayheartily to God that Heordain remedy). Forwhatever evils the planetsshow in their working,good men may so prayunto God, l>y orisons,fasting, sacrifice, alms-deed-doing, and penance for their sins,that- God will turn, resolve, and revolce all that men fear. We have just seen how medicine linked itself to astrology;we now turn to its connection with magic and alchemy. Uurforefathe
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , itis good that thou prayheartily to God that Heordain remedy). Forwhatever evils the planetsshow in their working,good men may so prayunto God, l>y orisons,fasting, sacrifice, alms-deed-doing, and penance for their sins,that- God will turn, resolve, and revolce all that men fear. We have just seen how medicine linked itself to astrology;we now turn to its connection with magic and alchemy. Uurforefathers brought with them to this land a belief in runesand spells, and when the medical man, at first a stranger,probably a Jew, settled among them, the cures he wroughtwere set down to the superior eflicacy of his charms. A bookof counsels to young practitioners (1300) gives curious side-lights on the manners of the time. It seems he was expectedfrom a sight of the patients urine, to pronounce on the age,sex, and malady, and that usually a preliminary trial of hisability was made liy trying to impose upon him with somecounterfeit liquid. He was cautioned to use long words that. THE D.^NGERS OF .^. Eoy. 0 E- vi.) _lmitta yn\&So. An« •J>
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