An 18th-century view of demonomania. 2: Vampirism – introduction – psychiatry in history

摘要

Martinus Martini's 1782 dissertation on demonomania includes a considerable section on vampirism, on which topic more of his own original thought is evident, although the stories themselves are the usual ones found in other sources. For vampirism as a variety of insanity Martini is somewhat muddled