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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages — J. F. C. Hecker

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

J. F. C. Hecker

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 427 pages

This historical collection gathers J. F. C. Hecker's medical-historical treatises on three medieval epidemics: the Black Death, the dancing mania, and the sweating sickness. Hecker examines how these outbreaks were understood and recorded in their time. It offers a thoughtful window into premodern medicine and society's response to mass disease.

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Opening of the book

THE

EPIDEMICS

OF

THE MIDDLE AGES.

FROM THE GERMAN OF

J. F. C. HECKER, M.D.

PROFESSOR AT FREDERICK WILLIAM’S UNIVERSITY AT BERLIN,

AND MEMBER OF VARIOUS LEARNED SOCIETIES IN

ALBANY, BERLIN, BONN, COPENHAGEN, DIJON, DRESDEN, ERLANGEN, HANAU,

HEIDELBERG, LEIPZIG, LONDON, LYONS, MARSEILLES, METZ, NAPLES, NEW

YORK, OFFENBURG, PHILADELPHIA, STOCKHOLM, TOULOUSE, WARSAW AND

ZURICH.

TRANSLATED BY

B. G. BABINGTON, M.D. F.R.S.,

ETC.

LONDON

MDCCCXLIV

LONDON :
GEORGE WOODFALL AND SON,
ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET

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Contents

  1. THE EPIDEMICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
  2. GENERAL PREFACE.
  3. ADDRESS TO THE PHYSICIANS OF GERMANY.
  4. CONTENTS.
  5. THE BLACK DEATH.
  6. THE DANCING MANIA.
  7. THE SWEATING SICKNESS.
  8. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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