Chapter I: Front Matter

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.

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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