The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

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Author

Caius, John, 1510-1573

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Produced by Turgut Dincer, Robert Tonsing, Linda Cantoni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Hysteria, Epidemic

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 63232

Release Date

September 19, 2020

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE EPIDEMICS OF THE MIDDLE AGES .
2. 2.GENERAL PREFACE. — ADDRESS TO THE PHYSICIANS OF GERMANY.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.THE BLACK DEATH.
5. 5.TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
6. 6.PREFACE. — CHAPTER I. — GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — THE DISEASE.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — CAUSES.—SPREAD.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — MORTALITY.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — MORAL EFFECTS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — PHYSICIANS.
12. 12.I.
13. 13.II.
14. 14.THE DANCING MANIA.
15. 15.TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
16. 16.PREFACE. — CHAPTER I. THE DANCING MANIA IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS. — Sect. 1.—St. John’s Dance. — Sect. 2.—St. Vitus’s Dance [14] . — Sect. 3.—Causes. — Sect. 4.—More ancient Dancing Plagues. — Sect. 5.—Physicians. — Sect. 6.—Decline and Termination of the Dancing Plague.
17. 17.CHAPTER II. DANCING MANIA IN ITALY. — Sect. 1.—Tarantism. — Sect. 2.—Most ancient Traces.—Causes. — Sect. 3.—Increase. — Sect. 4.—Idiosyncracies.—Music. — Sect. 5.—Hysteria. — Sect. 6.—Decrease.
18. 18.CHAPTER III. DANCING MANIA IN ABYSSINIA. — Sect. 1.—Tigretier.
19. 19.CHAPTER IV. SYMPATHY. — I. — II. — III [145] . — IV. — V. — VI.
20. 20.THE SWEATING SICKNESS.
21. 21.PREFACE.
22. 22.CHAPTER I. THE FIRST VISITATION OF THE DISEASE—1485. — Sect. 1.—Eruption. — Sect. 2.—The Physicians. — Sect. 3.—Causes. — Sect. 4.—Other Epidemics. — Sect. 5.—Richmond’s Army. — Sect. 6.—Nature of the Sweating Sickness.
23. 23.CHAPTER II. THE SECOND VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1506. — Sect. 1.—Mercenary Troops. — Sect. 2.—New Circumstances. — Sect. 3.—Sweating Sickness. — Sect. 4.—Accompanying Phenomena. — Sect. 5.—Petechial Fever in Italy, 1505. — Sect. 6.—Other Diseases. — Sect. 7.—Blood Spots.
24. 24.CHAPTER III. THE THIRD VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1517. — Sect. 1.—Poverty. — Sect. 2.—Sweating Sickness. — Sect. 3.—Causes. — Sect. 4.—Habits of the English. — Sect. 5.—Contagion. — Sect. 6.—Influenzas. — Sect. 7.—Epidemics of 1517.
25. 25.CHAPTER IV. THE FOURTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1528, 1529. — Sect. 1.—Destruction of the French Army before Naples, 1528. — Sect. 2.—Trousse-Galant in France.—1528, and the following years. — Sect. 3.—Sweating Sickness in England, 1528. — Sect. 4.—Natural Occurrences.—Prognostics. — Sect. 5.—Sweating Sickness in Germany, 1529. — Sect. 6.—In the Netherlands. — Sect. 7.—Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. — Sect. 8.—Terror. — Sect. 9.—Moral Consequences. — Sect. 10.—The Physicians. — Sect. 11.—Pamphlets. — Sect. 12.—Form of the Disease.
26. 26.CHAPTER V. FIFTH VISITATION OF THE DISEASE.—1551. — Sect. 1.—Eruption. — Sect. 2.—Extension and Duration. — Sect. 3.—Causes.—Natural Phenomena. — Sect. 4.—Diseases. — Sect. 5.—John Kaye.
27. 27.CHAPTER VI. SWEATING SICKNESSES. — Sect. 1.—The Cardiac Disease of the Ancients. — Sect. 2.—The Picardy Sweat. — Sect. 3.—The Roettingen Sweating Sickness. — CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY. — CATALOGUE OF WORKS [520] —

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