Boston Post, Feb. 10, 1859.
“A most delightful book…. Very few know the name of the author. It was written by a German in England, during the last century, and published in the English language. His name was Rudolph Erich Raspe. We shall not soon look upon his like again.”
THE EPIDEMICS
OF
THE MIDDLE AGES.
FROM THE GERMAN OF J. F. C. HECKER, M.D.
Translated by G. B. Babington, M.D. F.R.S.
Third Edition,
Completed by the Author's Treatise on Child-Pilgrimages.
Octavo cloth, pp. 384, price 9s.
CONTENTS: The Black Death—The Dancing Mania—The Sweating Sickness—Child-Pilgrimages.
This volume is one of the series published by the Sydenham Society, and, as such, originally issued to its members only. The work having gone out of print, this new edition—the third—has been undertaken by the present proprietors of the copyright, with the view not only of meeting the numerous demands from the class to which it was primarily addressed by its learned author, but also for extending its circulation to the general reader, to whom it had, heretofore, been all but inaccessible, owing to the peculiar mode of its publication; and to whom it is believed it will be very acceptable, on account of the great and growing interest of its subject-matter, and the elegant and successful treatment thereof. The volume is a verbatim reprint from the second edition, but its value has been enhanced by the addition of a paper on “Child-Pilgrimages,” never before translated; and the present edition is therefore the first and only one in the English language which contains all the contributions of Dr Hecker to the history of medicine.