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| [General Preface] | v |
| [Hecker’s Address] | ix |
THE BLACK DEATH. |
| [Translator’s Preface] | xxiii |
| [Preface] | xxvii |
CHAPTER I. |
| [General Observations] | 1 |
CHAPTER II. |
| [The Disease] | 2 |
CHAPTER III. |
| [Causes—Spread] | 11 |
CHAPTER IV. |
| [Mortality] | 21 |
CHAPTER V. |
| [Moral Effects] | 32 |
CHAPTER VI. |
| [Physicians] | 50 |
| Appendix:— | |
| [I. The Ancient Song of the Flagellants] | 68 |
| [II. Examination of the Jews accused of poisoning the Wells] | 74 |
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THE DANCING MANIA. |
| [Translator’s Preface] | 81 |
| [Preface] | 85 |
CHAPTER I.
DANCING MANIA IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS. |
| [Sect. 1.—St. John’s Dance] | 87 |
| [2.—St. Vitus’s Dance] | 91 |
| [3.—Causes] | 94 |
| [4.—More ancient Dancing Plagues] | 97 |
| [5.—Physicians] | 100 |
| [6.—Decline and Termination of the Dancing Plague] | 103 |
CHAPTER II.
DANCING MANIA IN ITALY. |
| [Sect. 1.—Tarantism] | 107 |
| [2.—Most Ancient Traces.—Causes] | 110 |
| [3.—Increase] | 116 |
| [4.—Idiosyncracies.—Music] | 119 |
| [5.—Hysteria] | 126 |
| [6.—Decrease] | 129 |
CHAPTER III.
DANCING MANIA IN ABYSSINIA. |
| [Sect. 1.—Tigretier] | 133 |
CHAPTER IV. |
| [Sympathy] | 139 |
| Appendix:— | |
| [I. Extract from “Vita Gregorii XI.,” &c.] | 153 |
| [II. From “Chronicon Magnum,” &.c] | 154 |
| [III. From “die Limburger Chronik,” &c.] | 155 |
| [IV. From “die Chronica van Coellen,” &c.] | 156 |
| [V. From “an Account of Convulsive Diseases in Scotland,” &c.] | 157 |
| [VI. Music for the Dance of the Tarantati, &c.] | 167 |
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THE SWEATING SICKNESS. |
| [Preface] | 177 |
CHAPTER I.
FIRST VISITATION. 1485. |
| [Sect. 1.—Eruption] | 181 |
| [2.—The Physicians] | 185 |
| [3.—Causes] | 187 |
| [4.—Other Epidemics] | 188 |
| [5.—Richmond’s Army] | 190 |
| [6.—Nature of the Sweating Sickness.—Preliminary Investigation] | 191 |
CHAPTER II.
SECOND VISITATION. 1506. |
| [Sect. 1.—Mercenary Troops] | 193 |
| [2.—New Circumstances] | 196 |
| [3.—Sweating Sickness] | 197 |
| [4.—Accompanying Phenomena] | 198 |
| [5.—Petechial Fever in Italy. 1505] | 199 |
| [6.—Other Diseases] | 203 |
| [7.—Blood Spots] | 205 |
CHAPTER III.
THIRD VISITATION. 1517. |
| [Sect. 1.—Poverty] | 208 |
| [2.—Sweating Sickness] | 209 |
| [3.—Causes] | 211 |
| [4.—Habits of the English] | 212 |
| [5.—Contagion] | 215 |
| [6.—Influenzas] | 218 |
| [7.—Epidemics of 1517] | 223 |
CHAPTER IV.
FOURTH VISITATION. 1528, 1529. |
| [Sect. 1.—Destruction of the French Army before Naples, 1528] | 228 |
| [2.—Trousse-Galant in France, 1528, and the following years] | 235 |
| [3.—Sweating Sickness in England, 1528] | 238 |
| [4.—Natural Occurrences.—Prognostics] | 240 |
| [5.—Sweating Sickness in Germany, 1529] | 246 |
| [6.——————————the Netherlands] | 254 |
| [7.——————————Denmark, Sweden, and Norway] | 255 |
| [8.—Terror] | 257 |
| [9.—Moral Consequences] | 261 |
| [10.—The Physicians] | 264 |
| [11.—Pamphlets] | 270 |
| [12.—Form of the Disease] | 278 |
CHAPTER V.
FIFTH VISITATION. 1551. |
| [Sect. 1.—Eruption] | 290 |
| [2.—Extension and Duration] | 291 |
| [3.—Causes.—Natural Phenomena] | 295 |
| [4.—Diseases] | 297 |
| [5.—John Kaye] | 301 |
CHAPTER VI.
SWEATING SICKNESSES. |
| [Sect. 1.—The Cardiac Disease of the Ancients. (Morbus Cardiacus.)] | 306 |
| [2.—The Picardy Sweat. (Suette des Picards—Suette Miliaire.)] | 315 |
| [3.—The Roettingen Sweating Sickness] | 324 |
| [Chronological Survey] | 330 |
| [Catalogue of Works referred to] | 339 |
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| [Appendix.]—A Boke, or Counseill against the Disease commonly called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse. By Jhon Caius | 353 |