It was this bull that gave authority to Jacob Sprenger, the author of Malleus Maleficarum.
Before the end of the century there appeared Sprenger's celebrated 'Malleus Maleficarum,' the most authoritative work in existence on witchcraft from the standpoint of credulity.
The title of "Hammer of Heretics," Malleus Haereticorum, has been given to St Augustine and to Johann Faber, whose tract against Luther is also known by the name.
He has a claim to be remembered in that he was the first to describe the duct of Wharton and is said to have been the first to describe the ear ossicles, malleus and incus.
Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum, editio princeps, Cologne, 1486, and frequently reprinted until the end of the seventeenth century.
In the fifteenth century it was taught that all sorcerers are heretics, maleficus being, according to the learned authors of the Malleus Maleficarum, a contraction of male de fide sentiens or heretic.
For a description of the methods employed we cannot do better than go to the Malleus Maleficarum,[288] the guide and handbook of the witch-hunters.
In Baiomys musculus, the orbicular apophysis of the malleus (see Figure 8, B) is round to oblong, and less ovoid than in B.
The short process of the incus is knoblike in Calomys and Thaptomys, and the general conformation of malleus and stapes in those two genera is nearly identical to that in B.
Examination of a number of auditory ossicles of Baiomys reveals constant interspecific differences in the malleus and incus.
In Ochrotomys, the orbicular apophysis of the malleus resembles the orbicular apophysis of B.
The handle of the malleustraverses the membrane as a whitish-yellow ridge, which appears to pass from its upper and anterior parts downwards and backwards to a point a little below the centre.
Behind themalleus the long process of the incus may be visible through the membrane.
An inflamed membrane, showing congestion of the vessels about the malleus or a general diffuse redness, is evidence of middle-ear inflammation.
At the lower end of the handle of the malleus a bright triangular cone of light passes downwards and forwards to the periphery of the membrane.
When the muscle contracts, the handle of the malleus is drawn still farther inwards, and thus a greater tension of the tympanic membrane is produced.
This small muscle arises from the apex of the petrous temporal and the cartilage of the Eustachian tube, enters the tympanum at its anterior wall, and is inserted into the malleus near its root.
Malleus Maleficarum], which tale was delivered to Sprenger by a knight of the Rhodes.
Savin quoted the "Malleus Maleficarum" to show that if she were not the offspring of an incubus she must undoubtedly have been devoted to Satan at her birth.
The auditory ossicles of Grypotherium, therefore, are very different from those of Myrmecophaga, in which the malleusis less sharply bent, the incus has divergent arms of unequal length, and the stapes exhibits a large perforation.
The malleus is bent exactly as in the latter species, and is of similar shape.
But there is a time, as Solomon says, for everything under the sun; and the glories of the 'Malleus Maleficarum' were departed.
Where the malleus joins the membrane is a small muscle whose contraction has the effect of tightening the membrane.
In an extended course it is a profitable exercise to dissect the ear of a sheep or calf, observing the auditory canal, middle ear, bridge of bones, and the tympanic membrane with attached malleus and tensor tympanic muscle.
The bridge of bones, being pivoted at one point to the walls of the middle ear, forms a lever in which the malleus is the long arm, and the incus and stapes the short arm, their ratio being about that of three to two.
He enumerates the tunics and humours of the eye, and gives an account of the internal ear, in which he notices the malleus and incus.
He is known in the history of anatomical discovery as the first who described the two tympanal bones, termed malleus and incus.
For the Malleus Maleficarum expressly says that a witch can never grow rich, seeing that Satan, to do dishonour to God, always buys them for a vile price, so that they should not betray themselves by their riches.
In the middle of the fourteenth century, the Malleus Maleficarum refers it to Puncher, a magician of the Upper Rhine.
The following are translations from Saxo, the Wilkina Saga, and the Malleus Maleficarum.
The malleus in chipmunks is composed of a head and neck, a manubrium which has a spatulate process at the end opposite the head, and a muscular process situated about halfway between the spatulate process and the head of the malleus.
The head of the malleus in Tamias is clearly more elongated than in Eutamias.
The lamina is one half as long as the rest of the malleus (see figs.
In summary: Only the head and body of the malleus and the short and long limbs and body of the incus are sufficiently consistent within a given group to be of taxonomic importance.
In Zapus the head of the malleus is angular with an anterior projecting point and is flattened in dorsal aspect.
The incus has a dorsally rounded body with an anterior downward snoutlike projection with which the malleus articulates.
Stehlin and Schaub do not consider other structures such as the elongate hind limbs, the shape of malleus and incus, and the shape of the baculum, in which there is close resemblance to the Zapodinae.
In Napaeozapus the head and neck of the malleus resemble those of Zapus but are less robust.
A beaklike manubrium malleus composed of anterior projecting external and internal spines extends from the body to the tympanum.
In Eozapus the head of the malleus is narrow, oblong, and rounded dorsally and attaches to the body by a long, slender, abruptly recurved neck.
There is a beaklike manubriummalleus composed of internal and external anteriorly projecting spines extending from the body to the tympanum as in Eozapus.
In Man and the Anthropoid Apes the malleus has a rounded head, a short neck, and the manubrium, a processus longus and a processus brevis.
In some cases the malleus of the foetus differs strikingly from that of the adult.
Among Perissodactyla the Rhinoceros and Tapir have the malleus of a low type, recalling those of Marsupials; while in the Horse the head is well developed, and the malleus is of a higher type.
Many forms such as shrews, moles, hedgehogs, and the Centetidae have a low type of malleus resembling that of Edentates.
C) the malleus is generally characterised by a very broad manubrium.
The malleus is homologous to the extra-columella of Crocodiles and the stapes to the columella.
The head of the malleus is drawn out into a great club-shaped process, the incus is long and narrow, and differs much from the ordinary type.
The malleus is always firmly fused to the tympanic by means of the processus longus, and the manubrium is very little if at all developed.
In many genera such as Bathyergus, and most of the Hystricomorpha such as Hystrix, Chinchilla and Dasyprocta, the malleus and incus are ankylosed together.
The Didelphyidae on the other hand have the most highly developed ossicles, the malleus much resembling that of many Insectivores, and the stapes having two definite crura separated by a canal.
In Carnivora vera the most striking feature of the malleus is the occurrence of a broad lamellar expansion between the head and neck and the processus longus.
Instead of using Sexton’s forceps, the malleus may be removed by means of Wilde’s snare.
If there be marked middle-ear deafness, the result of adhesions, and the malleus is fixed to the promontory.
Adhesion of the handle of the malleus to the promontory.
The loop is then drawn tight so as to hold the malleus firmly in its grasp.
The advantage of this instrument is, that once the knife has encircled the malleus it should be possible not only to cut through the tensor tympani, but to extract the bone itself without the use of any other instrument.
In doing this the instrument will embrace the neck of the malleus (Fig.
In addition, the anterior, external, and superior ligaments of the malleus also tend to keep it in position and limit its movements.
As the result of middle-ear suppuration the malleus and incus may become exfoliated.
With a quick movement the drum is incised freely, the incision being carried in an upward direction midway between the malleus and the circumference of the membrane posteriorly, until it reaches Shrapnell’s membrane (Fig.
Cromwell, the malleus monachorum, was of good English family, belonging to the Cromwells of Lincolnshire.
Even in that case, however, he lies under the suspicion of having interfered through fear that his own fate was involved in that of the malleus monachorum.
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