This etext was transcribed by Jane Duff and proofed by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1888 Cassell & Company edition. The Black Death and The Dancing Mania 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
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