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WEYER, Johann [WIER] (1515 – 1588)

1515 – 1588

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1563 CE

#4916

De praestigiis daemonum.

Weyer was the first European physician to take an empirical, scientific approach to the study of mental illness. At the height of the witchcraft delusion he argued that witches were mentally ill women who deserved hum…