CONTENTS.

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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

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

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

Appendix.—A Boke, or Counseill against the Disease commonly called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse. By Jhon Caius	353