Bygone Beliefs

Bygone Beliefs
by H. Redgrove

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Excursions in the various byways of Thought

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Certain herbs, culled at favourable conjunctions of the planets and worn as amulets, were held to be very efficacious against various diseases. Precious stones and metals were also taken internally for the same purpose--"remedies" which in certain cases must have proved exceedingly harmful. One theory put forward for the supposed medical value of amulets was the Doctrine of Effluvia.

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Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887-1943), a chemist who helped to form the Alchemical Society in London, also includes chapters on Roger Bacon and the Cambridge Platonists.

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