iii, sec.1.For the cases in western Africa, see the Rev.
J.L.Wilson, Western Africa, p.

217.
III.

THEOLOGICAL "RESTATEMENTS."-- FINAL TRIUMPH OF THE SCIENTIFIC VIEW AND METHODS.
But, happily, long before these latter occurrences, science had come into the field and was gradually diminishing this class of diseases.
Among the earlier workers to this better purpose was the great Dutch physician Boerhaave.

Finding in one of the wards in the hospital at Haarlem a number of women going into convulsions and imitating each other in various acts of frenzy, he immediately ordered a furnace of blazing coals into the midst of the ward, heated cauterizing irons, and declared that he would burn the arms of the first woman who fell into convulsions.

No more cases occurred.( 408) (408) See Figuier, Histoire de Merveilleux, vol.i, p.