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Como, witch-burning in the diocese of, 205.

Concoreggio, Giovanni da, Lucidarium et Flos Medicinae, 95 and n. 1.

Conrad, Emperor, Hildegard’s correspondence with, 5.

Conrad of Marburg, cited, 192 n. 6.

Constantine Africanus, medical writings of, 13, 16, 43, 121, 127; De communibus medico cognitu necessariis locis, 44 and n. 2, 114 n. 1; De humana natura, 45, 50; Pantechni. Theorice, 127 n. 4.

Conybeare, F. C., Key of Truth, 192 n. 4.

Copenhagen: see Manuscripts.

Copernicus, 43.

Copho of Salerno, Anatomia porci, 43, 44.

Cotta’s Jubiläums-Ausgabe, 8 n. 2.

Craigie, Dr., History of Anatomy, 93 n. 2.

Cramp, early use of the term, 180-2.

Cramp-rings, the blessing of, by the kings and queens of England, 165-87; ceremonies of blessing cramp-rings used on Good Friday, 184-7; office of consecration used by Queen Mary, 177-9, 182-4; origin of the ceremony, 165, 179, 180, 182; ceremonial observed, 167, 168, 171, 178, 179; its disuse, 179, 180; bequests of cramp-rings, 172, 176; diseases covered by the word ‘cramp’, 180-2.

Crawfurd, Raymond: The Blessing of Cramp-rings; a chapter in the history of the treatment of epilepsy, 165-87; King’s Evil, cited, 171 n.

Cremona, Gerard of: see Gerard.

Cross, ceremonial of offering and creeping to the, 167, 168, 169.

Cuyer, E., Histoire de l’Anatomie plastique, 86 n. 2.

Dallari, Umberto, I rotuli dei lettori legisti e artisti dello studio bolognese dal 1384 al 1799, 98 n. 1.

Dalton, J. C., Doctrines of the Circulation, 130 n. 3.

Damascenus, Johannes, 113.

Daniel, Book of, 20.

Dante, Divina Commedia, 23; Quaestio de aqua et terra, 30 n.; scheme of the universe, 1, 21, 22, 23, 30, 31.

Daremberg, C., editor of Liber subtilitatum, 13; Œuvres anatomiques, physiologiques et médicales de Galien, 118 n. 1.

Darwinian theory, 236, 242, 245, 257.

Datura Stramonium, or thorn-apple, 199.

De caelo et mundo, 17.

Delation, 202.

Demiurgus, the, 192.

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