weapon-salve

As may readily be inferred, this wonderful powder, like the weapon-salve, was equally efficacious, whether used at a distance from the patient, or near by.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

Another favorite remedy, somewhat akin to the weapon-salve, was the so-called "sympathetic powder," which was said to consist of sulphate of copper prepared with mysterious ceremonies.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

The weapon-salve continued to be much spoken of on the Continent, and

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

Baptista Porta (1543-1615), one of the originators of the weapon-salve, had also great faith in the magnet.

Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

And about the year 1625, Dr. Robert Fludd, an English physician of learning and repute, introduced the famous "weapon-salve," which became immensely popular.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

This was the origin of the celebrated "weapon-salve," which excited so much attention about the middle of the seventeenth century.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

It was not always thought necessary to use either the powder of sympathy, or the weapon-salve, to effect a cure.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

Baptista Porta, who, in the whimsical genealogy of the weapon-salve, given by Parson Foster, in his attack upon Dr. à Fluctibus, is mentioned as one of its fathers, had also great faith in the efficacy of the magnet, and operated upon the imagination of his patients in a manner which was then considered so extraordinary that he was accused of being a magician, and prohibited from practising by the court of Rome.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

If such a man once took up the idea of the weapon-salve, it was to be expected that he would make the most of it.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851

The weapon-salve continued to be much spoken of on the Continent, and many eager claimants appeared for the honour of the invention.

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds Charles Mackay 1851