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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Chapter 1: THE EPIDEMICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
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This work assembles three historical medical treatises that survey major medieval epidemics — the plague, the dancing mania, and the sweating sickness — combining primary documents, contemporary accounts, and scholarly commentary. The author analyzes disease symptoms, modes of spread, and competing medical explanations while tracing social consequences such as mass panic, scapegoating, and institutional responses. Comparative readings highlight recurring patterns across outbreaks and the limits of period medicine. The volume includes translations, appendices with rare pamphlets, and an appeal for systematic collection of epidemic data to enable broader, evidence-based study of infectious phenomena.

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Title: The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Author: J. F. C. Hecker

John Caius

Translator: B. G. Babington

Release date: September 19, 2020 [eBook #63232]

Language: English

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EPIDEMICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES ***

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