Yet primitive medicine was by no means exclusively psychotherapeutic.The primitive healers used physical treatments and drugs still highly valued in our own medicine.Ciba Symposia, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1948. p. 826.
2.
In the judgment of W. D. C. Lewis, about 1,500 years in advance of his times, “for he placed the patient under the best conditions of light, temperature, food and quiet and insisted that all elements of an exciting nature be excluded. He denounced simple starvation, bleeding, chains, alcohol and excessive drug therapy.”
3.
CastiglioniArturo: A History of Medicine, New York, Alfred Knopf, 1947, p. 258.
4.
“Die Psychiatrie fiel in die Hande exorzisierender Priester und priesterlicher Hexenverfolger,”Ackerknecht, op. cit.
5.
ZilboorgGregory: A History of Medical Psychology, New York, W. W. Norton and Co., p. 103.
6.
JonesW. H. S.: Hippocrates, Vol. 11, p. 141.
7.
Op cit. p. 149.
8.
PirenneHenri: Medieval Cities, New York, Doubleday Anchor Books, Garden City, p. 15.
9.
Pirenne, op. cit, p. 17.
10.
HuizingaJohan: The Waning of the Middle Ages, London, Edward Arnold, Ltd., 1955, p. 11.
11.
Op Cit. p. 124.
12.
Op. Cit. p. 126.
13.
Op. Cit. p. 21.
14.
Hecker: The Epidemics of the Middle Ages, London, Sydenham Society, 1840, p. 87.
15.
Op. cit. p. 40.
16.
Op. cit. p. 115.
17.
HuizingaJohan: Men and Ideas, New York, Meridian Books, Inc.,1959, p. 307.
18.
Op. cit. p. 270.
19.
CastiglioniArturo: A History of Medicine, 2nd Ed.,New York, Alfred Knopf, 1947, p. 293.
20.
BrookeChristopher: Europe in the Middle Ages, London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1964, p. 295.
21.
PirenneHenri: A History of Europe, New York University, 1955, p. 105.
22.
CreightonCharles: History of Epidemics in Britain, Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 1891, p. 15.
