194, 195.

For a list of kings and popes who persisted in having Jewish physicians and for other curious information of the sort, see Prof.Levi of Vercelli, Cristiani ed Ebrei nel Medio Evo, pp.

200-207; and for a very valuable summary, see Lecky, History of Rationalism in Europe, vol.ii, pp.

265-271.
VIII.

FETICH CURES UNDER PROTESTANTISM .-- THE ROYAL TOUCH.
The Reformation made no sudden change in the sacred theory of medicine.
Luther, as is well known, again and again ascribed his own diseases to "devils' spells," declaring that "Satan produces all the maladies which afflict mankind, for he is the prince of death," and that "he poisons the air"; but that "no malady comes from God." From that day down to the faith cures of Boston, Old Orchard, and among the sect of "Peculiar People" in our own time, we see the results among Protestants of seeking the cause of disease in Satanic influence and its cure in fetichism.
Yet Luther, with his sturdy common sense, broke away from one belief which has interfered with the evolution of medicine from the dawn of Christianity until now.