The Dancing Mania or Dancing Plague remains an unresolved mystery. First seen in the 13th century, it continued to appear sporadically over the following three centuries. What compelled groups of people in Germany, Holland, Italy and other countries to engage in mass, frenzied dancing is still not known. Various causes have been suggested, ...
That Omnipotence which has called the world with all its living creatures into one animated being especially reveals Himself in the desolation of great pestilences. The powers of creation come into violent collision; the sultry dryness of the atmosphere; the subterraneous thunders; the mist of overflowing waters are the harbingers of destruction. ...
The Black Death and The Dancing Mania were written by Justus Hecker in 1832. After interrupting his studies to flight against Napoleon Hecker went back to his studies and obtained his doctor's degree in 1817. Hecker showed a strong interest in the history of medicine. After writing the first volume of a History of Medicine he was awarded the title ...
Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was one of three generations of distinguished professors of medicine. His father, August Friedrich Hecker, a most industrious writer, first practised as a physician in Frankenhausen, and in 1790 was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Erfurt. In 1805 he was called to the like professorship at the ...
Edition: First American edition.
Binding: modern marbled boards.
Publisher: 1837
Date Published: Translated by B. G. Babington
Description: Philadelphia: Nice copy. 74 + 84 pp. 8vo, Cordasco 30-0433 & 30-0434; S & S 44726 & 44727. First published in 1832-34 in three parts, only the first two parts were translated into English and published in London in 1833-35. This first American edition, like the London edition, did not include a translation of the third part entitled "The English Sweat. " read more
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