title: [On the ancient and magical lesions in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries].
abstract: At the beginning of the Renaissance magical, witchcraft and demonological medicine still played a large role in the poor healing ability of chronic leg ulcers. This included the general administration of magical potions and topical application. An example of the manipulation of the whole body by the devil was the Abracadabra text from Johann Christoph Bitterkraut in the year 1677. The use of bewitched ointments was particularly propagated by Paracelsus in 1622; however, even as early as the beginning of the seventeenth century, the invocation of supernatural powers was slowly diminishing until at the beginning of the nineteenth century the medical schools on chronic leg ulcers could be cultivated at the universities and by specialized wound healers.
authors.affiliation: Venenzentrum Frankfurt am Main, Fahrgasse 89, 60311, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, hach.frankfurt@gmx.de.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hach
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Hach-Wunderle
mesh_terms: D005060:Europe; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D008273:Magic / Q000266:history*; D008519:Medicine, Traditional / Q000266:history*; D013483:Superstitions / Q000266:history*; D014456:Ulcer / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy*; D018599:Witchcraft / Q000266:history*