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 APPENDIX.—A Boke, or Counseill against the Disease commonly called the Sweate, or Sweatyng Sicknesse. By Jhon Caius 353 LIST OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 381 THE BLACK DEATH. TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.