84-89, and French local histories generally.

For superstitions attaching to springs in Germany, see Wuttke, Volksaberglaube, Sections 12 and 356.

For one of the most exquisitely wrought works of modern fiction, showing perfectly the recent evolution of miraculous powers at a fashionable spring in France, see Gustave Droz, Autour d'une Source.

The reference to the old pious machinery at Trondhjem is based upon personal observation by the present writer in August, 1893.
Still another development of the theological spirit, mixed with professional exclusiveness and mob prejudice, wrought untold injury.
Even to those who had become so far emancipated from allegiance to fetich cures as to consult physicians, it was forbidden to consult those who, as a rule, were the best.

From a very early period of European history the Jews had taken the lead in medicine; their share in founding the great schools of Salerno and Montpellier we have already noted, and in all parts of Europe we find them acknowledged leaders in the healing art.