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... numerous superstitions [ 7 ]: Even the skeptical Michel de Montaigne made the sign of the cross before his mouth while yawning, showing the power surrounding this belief. In Austria, when a yawning baby was not able to perform the sign of the cross, an older person would perform this gesture in front...

.... Culture and Ethnicity Culture is the total pattern of human behavior in thoughts, speech, actions and artifacts. It is the body of acquired knowledge, values, morals, beliefs, practices and customs, opinions, laws, traditions, religion, superstition and art, possessed and expressed by a designated...

... a sense of depersonalization or splitting, referred to as “alienation of the personality” by the philosopher Ludovic Dugas (1857-1942) in 1898 [ 19 ]. The superstition underlying possession can be understood as a narcissistic attempt at compensation by persons lacking self-confidence, who feel...

... for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015. Lancet 2016;388:1545–1602. 3. Ruby JD, Cox CF, Akimoto N, Meada N, Momoi Y: The caries phenomenon: a timeline from witchcraft and superstition to opinions of the 1500s to today’s science. Int J...

... victims were scarcely closed, when a strange delusion arose in Germany, which took possession of the minds of men, and, in spite of the divinity of our nature, hurried away body and soul into the magic circle of hellish superstition. …. It did not remain confined to particular localities...

... was ‘the last priest, supreme faith, invincible superstition,’ and Balzac was able to decrypt this emergence and predict its evolution determined by the development of medical science. It is through his doctors that all of society is described and, most importantly, through the lens of medicine that human...

.... Lancet 2016;388:1545–1602. 3. Ruby JD, Cox CF, Akimoto N, Meada N, Momoi Y: The caries phenomenon: a timeline from witchcraft and superstition to opinions of the 1500s to today’s science. Int J Dent, 2010;2010:432767. 4. Guerini V: A history of dentistry from the most ancient times until the end...

..., he added instructive historical accounts to decry how religious superstitions kept common people in ignorance. Without ever saying so clearly, Charcot shared Bourneville's anticlerical opinions, which were evident in Iconographie de La Salpêtrière . This medical publication also served as a cultural...

... in the shadows and bring science to bear in areas previously surrounded by mystery and superstition' [ 47 , 48 ]. Fig. 5 Pierre Janet around 1930. ©BIU Santé Paris, with kind permission. Definition and Nature of Hysteria According to Janet Janet assumed that hysteria was not a result of organic...