The Epidemics of the Middle Ages by J. F. C. Hecker and John Caius

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

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1. “At a cotton manufactory at Hodden Bridge, in Lancashire, a girl, on Ch.29
2. “A young woman of the lowest order, twenty-one years of age, and Ch.30
3. In a Methodist chapel at Redruth, a man during divine service, cried Ch.31
4. For the last hundred years a nervous affection of a perfectly Ch.32
5. The appearance of the _Convulsionnaires_ in France, whose Ch.33
6. Similar fanatical sects exhibit among all nations[337] of ancient Ch.34
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1515. Exact descriptions, however, of these disorders are entirely Ch.37
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1690. Stuttgard. Ch.42
1713. Saint Valery. (Somme.) Ch.43
1715. Breslau. Ch.44
1718. Tübingen. Ch.45
1724. Turin. Ch.46
1726. Acqui. Ch.47
1728. Chambéry, Annecy, St. Jean de Maurienne. (Savoy.) Ch.48
1732. Nizza. Ch.49
1733. Fossano. Ch.50
1734. Strasburg. (Lower Rhine.) Ch.51
1735. Trino. Ch.52
1738. Luzarches, Royaumont. (Seine et Oise.) Ch.53
1740. Caen. (Calvados.) Ch.54
1741. Rouen. (Lower Seine.) Ch.55
1742. Caudebec. (Lower Seine.) Ch.56
1747. Paris. (Seine.) Ch.57
1750. Schaffhausen. Ch.58
1756. Cusset. (Allier.) Ch.59
1759. Paris. (Seine.) Ch.60
1763. Vire. (Calvados.) Ch.61
1765. Balleroy, Basoques. (Calvados.) Ch.62
1767. Thinchebray, Truttemer. (Orne.) Ch.63
1782. Castelnaudary. (Aude.) Ch.64
1821. La Chapelle, Saint-Pierre and sixty places around. (Oise; Seine Ch.65
1485. Richmond obtains support France, and epidemic pleuritis Ch.66
1485. From the 1st to the 22d Plague in Spain. Ch.67
1495. Useless war for the _Sweating Sickness._ Ch.68
1495. Eruption of the syphilitic Ch.69
1499. Great plague in London. Ch.70
1501. His eldest son, Arthur, in Germany and France. Ch.71
1502. Prince Arthur dies. in Germany. Ch.72
1501. conquers Naples in 1505. First epidemic petechial Ch.73
1504. expelled thence. He shewed a decided determination Ch.74
1511. Pope Julius II. (1503–1513) 1505. Moist summer. Lamentable Ch.75
1504. Isabella of Castile dies. _to England, until the_ Ch.76
1516. Ferdinand the Catholic in Spain. Ch.77
1515. the Swiss, in the battle moist summer. Ch.78
1516. Cardinal Wolsey changes of Europe. Ch.79
1520. then of Charles V. (diphtheritis) in Holland, Ch.80
1517. 31st of October, Luther Bâsle. Ch.81
1519. 12th January, the Emperor in Swabia (and Spain). Ch.82
1517. May: Insurrections of _London of the third visitation_ Ch.83
1517. In the autumn and winter, _it spreads with great_ Ch.84
1518. 11th February, Queen _December. Ammonius, of Lucca,_ Ch.85
1518. The College of Physicians _learned persons in Oxford_ Ch.86
1521. Henry VIII. opposes 1517. In December, immediately Ch.87
1517. Small-pox breaks out in Ch.88
1524. October, Francis I. 1524. Great plague at Milan, Ch.89
1526. 14th January. Peace of 1527. 11th August, a comet. Ch.90
1526. Clement VII. (1523–1534) army in Italy, after the sacking Ch.91
1527. 6th May. Rome is vanquished and heat. Ch.92
1528. A French army, under summer fogs in Italy. Second Ch.93
1528. 1st May, the siege of army before Naples by a Ch.94
1528. 29th August, the siege of summer in France. Ch.95
1528. Charles V. challenges in that country. Ch.96
1529. 5th August, Francis I. off a fourth part of the Ch.97
1527. Scruples of Henry VIII. 1528. _At the end of May: outbreak_ Ch.98
1528. Henry VIII. retires to _and terminates in the winter._ Ch.99
1532. Separation of the king _not return in the following_ Ch.100
1533. January, Anna Boleyn winds. Great drought. Ch.101
1535. Thomas More and Fisher Germany. Ch.102
1536. Anna Boleyn is executed. Italy. Sanguineous rain at Ch.103
1537. Anne of Cleves becomes 1529. Mild winter in Germany. Ch.104
1541. Catherine Howard, queen, throughout the summer. General Ch.105
1547. 13th December, Henry of the river fish in the Ch.106
1521. Plots of the Iconoclasts among birds. Languor resembling Ch.107
1529. 22d September-16th St. Vitus) in the south of Ch.108
1529. 2d October, assemblage 24th of August, and the Ch.109
1530. 25th June, surrender of _the epidemic Sweating Sickness_ Ch.110
1531. League of the Protestant _On the 14th August_ Ch.111
1532. Imperial Diet at Nuremberg. _to spread universally all over_ Ch.112
1536. The Schmalkaldic league _termination on the 6th_ Ch.113
1538. The Catholic States establish _August in Strasburg. On_ Ch.114
1540. Paul III. (1534–1550) _and Francfort on the Maine._ Ch.115
1530. In October, overflow of Ch.116
1531. 1st of August to 3d Ch.117
1532. From 2d October to 8th Ch.118
1533. From the middle of June Ch.119
1534. Termination of the years Ch.120
1542. Maurice Duke of Saxony 1538. Epidemic dysentery in Ch.121
1542. The imperial army which forests take fire spontaneously. Ch.122
1546. The 18th of February, in Hungary during the war Ch.123
1546. Charles V. takes the field 1543. Plague and petechial Ch.124
1547. 24th April, the battle of Boulogne. Ch.125
1548. Duke Maurice to the and France. Ch.126
1551. Magdeburg declared to red water in the north of Ch.127
1552. Henry II. of France among cattle in Germany. Ch.128
1552. The treaty of Passau (petechial fever?) in the Ch.129
1553. Mary persecutes the 1551. In the spring, stinking Ch.130
1556. Charles V. abdicates, and 1551. _On the 15th of April_ Ch.131
1113. Paris, ap. H. Stephan. 1513, 4to. Ch.132
1583. Jar ergangen, kurtz und richtig nach der Ordnung der Ch.133