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Villiers, J. A. J. de, Famous Maps in the British Museum, 99 n. 4.

Vincent, St., of Beauvais, his treatment of a witch, 191.

Vinci, Leonardo da, anatomical researches of, 86, 121, 122, 130; anatomical sketches, 89, plates XXXV, XXXVIII (b).

Virchow, Rudolf, cited, 13, 60, 226 n.

Virmont, Countess Anna of, 218.

Vitalism, 59-78; animism, 61, 64, 65; biological definitions, 59-61; crystals, 60; differentiation, 62; embryo, 62, 63, 69, 70; ‘entelechy’, 64, 75; germ, 62, 63, 66, 69, 70, 74; heterogeneity, 77; homogeneity, 65, 77; larva, 62, 63, 69; mechanisms and mechanical theories, 64, 65, 67-70, 74-6; metabolism, 60, 65, 68, 70, 76; metaphysical theory, 66, 67, 76; mind separate and eternal, 60, 73; morphaesthetic, 64, 71; neo-vitalism, 68, 76; nutritive soul, the, 59, 60, 73, 74; organic autonomy, 65; organism, life of the, 59 ff.; perceptive soul, the, 60, 73, 74; philosophical objections, 68, 71-5; psychoid, 64, 65, 75; psychological theory, 67, 68, 76; rational soul, the, 60, 61, 67; scientific objections, 68-71; special vital force, theory of, 66.

Vivo, Catello de, La Visione di Alberico, ristampata, tradotta e camparata con la Divina Commedia, 21 n. 2.

Waldenses, persecution of, 192.

Waldsee, witch-burning at, 208.

Walsh, E. H. C., Tibetan Anatomical System, 44 n. 5.

Webb, C. C. J., 55 n.

Welch, Antonius, 197.

Wendover, Richard of: see Richardus Anglicus.

Wesselich, Philip, of Knechtenstein, case of witchcraft, 218.

Westland, A. Mildred, transcription of the Anothomia of Hieronymo Manfredi, 130-64; translation of selected passages, 106-25.

Westminster Abbey, miraculous cures at the shrine of Edward the Confessor, 166.

Weyer, Dr. John, and the witch mania, 189-224; De praestigiis daemonum et incantationibus ac veneficiis, 215-22.

Wharton, duct of, 95.

Wiberg, J., Anatomy of the Brain in the Works of Galen and ‘Ali ‘Abbas, 113 n. 2.

Wicelius (Weitzel), Georgius, 8.

Wickersheimer, Ernest, Figures médico-astrologiques des neuvième, dixième et onzième siècles, 27 n. 2, 38 n. 3; La médecine astrologique dans les almanachs populaires du XX^e siècle, 39 n. 2; L’Anatomie de Guido de Vigevano, médecin de la reine Jeanne de Bourgogne, 87 n. 3.

Wiesbaden: see Manuscripts.

Wille, Professor, 55 n.

William of Saliceto, 92, 93, 105.

Wilson, Rev. H. A., 55 n.

Winds, relation of, to the elements, 25-7, 34.

Winternitz, Diätetisches Sendschreiben des Maimonides, 226 n. 3.

Wiseman, Cardinal, 178.

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