8; also Rambaud, as above, vol.ii, p.155.For St.Andre, see Lacroix, as above, pp.

189, 190.
For Charcot's researches into the disease now known as Meteorismus hystericus, but which was formerly regarded in the ecclesiastical courts as an evidence of pregnancy through relations with Satan, see Snell, Hexenprocesse un Geistesstorung, Munchen, 1891, chaps.

xii and xiii.
In England the same warfare went on.

John Locke had asserted the truth, but the theological view continued to control public opinion.

Most prominent among those who exercised great power in its behalf was John Wesley, and the strength and beauty of his character made his influence in this respect all the more unfortunate.