The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania

by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker

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Transcribed from the 1888 Cassell & Company edition by Jane Duff, proofed by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org.

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Release date

1999-05-01

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Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1739

Subjects

Black Death Chorea, Epidemic Epidemics RC

About the author

J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker

1795–1850

A pioneering 19th-century German physician, he helped turn epidemics into a subject of historical inquiry, tracing how disease shaped human life and society. His best-known writings on plague, dancing mania, and other outbreaks still feel strikingly modern in their curiosity and scope.

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