The real causes of disease are so intricate that they are reached only after ages of scientific labour; hence they, above all, have been attributed to the influence of evil spirits.( 341) (341) On the general attribution of disease to demoniacal influence, see Sprenger, History of Medicine, passim (note, for a later attitude, vol.
ii, pp.

150-170, 178); Calmeil, De la Folie, Paris, 1845, vol.i, pp.
104, 105; Esquirol, Des Maladies Mentales, Paris, 1838, vol.i, p.

482; also Tylor, Primitive Culture.

For a very plain and honest statement of this view in our own sacred books, see Oort, Hooykaas, and Kuenen, The Bible for Young People, English translation, chap.

v, p.