Georg Pictorius
Physician, Author
1500 – 1569
Who was Georg Pictorius?
Georg Pictorius of Villingen was a physician and an author of the German Renaissance.
He became active as a physician from 1540 in Ensisheim. In his book on magic, he condemns witchcraft, endorsing the witch-trials of his time: "if the witches are not burned, the number of these furies swells up in such an immense sea that no one could live safe from their spells and charms." His gynecological Frauenzimmer gives cosmetic advice for women, from the suppression of unpleasant scents to the shaping of their bosom
works:
1532 Theologia mythologica
Isagoge, the fourth book in the collection published as the Fourth Book of Occult Philosophy by Henry Cornelius Agrippa
1555 Lasz Büchlin, on bloodletting
1560 Baderbüchlin, on balneotherapy
Von den Gattungen der Ceremonialmagie, ed. Das Kloster
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