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MERCKLIN, GEORG ABRAHAM. Tractatus physico-medicus de incantamentis. Engraved frontispiece. [44], 192, [2], 193-254, [12] pages. 4to, 19th-century 1/2 black morocco gilt, joints worn and starting; title toned, occasional heavy browning; institutional bookplate. Nuremberg: Johann Friedrich Rüdiger, 1715
First published in 1698 as Sylloge physico-medicinalium casuum incantationi vulgo adscribi solitorum, a collection of 60 case histories involving the use of incantations. "To his sixty cases Mercklin added cures for witchcraft, including an amulet for insane love, a balsam against all sorcery, candles against all magic diseases, anti-magical and astral herbs, and a sympathetic unguent which was to be prepared under certain specific constellations"--Thorndike VIII, 533. Not in Caillet.
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