The Black Death and The Dancing Mania
The Black Death and The Dancing Mania
by J. F. C. Hecker (translated by B. G. Babington)
INTRODUCTION
Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was one of three generations of distinguished professors of medicine. His father, August Friedrich Hecker, a most industrious writer, first practised as a physician in Frankenhausen, and in 1790 was appointed Professor of Medicine at the University of Erfurt. In 1805 he was called to the like professorship at the University of Berlin. He ...