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Stock, Johannes Christianus. Dissertatio physica de cadaveribus sanguisugis, i.e. von denen sogenannten Vampyren oder Menschen-Säugern. Jena, Germany, May 13, 1732.
“Praeside J. C. Stock. Philos. et Med. Doct. habita, resp. W. Nöbling, Leitenberga-Schwarzenburgico. Cited in Johann Georg Theodor Grässe’s Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica, p. 21. A re-telling of the vampire epidemic in Medvegya, Serbia, involving Arnold Paul.


In 1732 Johann Wilhelm Nobling - writing under the pseudonym of Johann Christoph Stock - published his \"Dissertatio physica de cadaveribus sanguisugis; von denen so genannten Vampyren oder Menschen-Säugern\", claiming that the vampires were not \"undead\" human beings, but demons.