Annals of medical history . witched herself. She then had theweakness to summon two exorcistpriests from Milan, who saidmasses for the vaporous ladyand assured her she wascured. But when, in ad-dition to the chargesagainst her of magic,she had questions putto her regarding thedeath of Henry IV,husband of Maria deMedicis, she laughed at theaccusations of magic,she wept when ques-tioned about the deadking and made a badimpression on thejudge. She was be-headed and cast intothe flames. Voltaireopposed with violenceand with ridicule theidea so popular in his time, of the fre-quenc
Annals of medical history . witched herself. She then had theweakness to summon two exorcistpriests from Milan, who saidmasses for the vaporous ladyand assured her she wascured. But when, in ad-dition to the chargesagainst her of magic,she had questions putto her regarding thedeath of Henry IV,husband of Maria deMedicis, she laughed at theaccusations of magic,she wept when ques-tioned about the deadking and made a badimpression on thejudge. She was be-headed and cast intothe flames. Voltaireopposed with violenceand with ridicule theidea so popular in his time, of the fre-quency with which people were disposedof by poison. The most celebrated ofwomen poisoners who experimented withpoison on the sick she visited in thehospitals, and who was beheaded andburned for her crimes in 1676, Madame deBrinvilliers, has more crimes accredited toher than she committed, he says. He holdsthe same opinion in regard to Catherine deMedicis. It is only in recent years that ithas become increasingly probable that he. Silva, physician to the Faculties of Paris andMontpellier. was right about this; and that appendicitis,and kindred abdominal diseases were thereal cause of many of the reputed cases ofpoisoning. He understood fully the contagion whichrobs crowds of their wits. It is true thathe had almost unparalleled opportunities forobserving examples of hysteria in the con-vulsionists as they were called, who, in theXVIII century flocked to the tomb of theDiacre de Paris, or the saint Paris, in theremote little cemetery of St. miracles that were workedthere were looked upon bythe simple people as a rec-ognition by the Almightyof the cult launched bythe unhappy Jansen,who died withoutknowing what a fussi his earnestly conceiv-ed book was to kickup. Singing, dancing,groaning, grunting,barking, mewing, hiss-ing, declaiming,prophesying, with theordinary motor ac-companiments offeeling, reached sucha height in this hither-to quiet churchyardthat the king foundit ne
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