The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Name: The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
Author: Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl)

Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl)

Black Death; Epidemics -- History; Hysteria, Epidemic

| conservanda bona valetudine præcepta. Stendal. 1790. 8vo. p. 38.     |
|                                                                      |
| [260] The passage is as follows: “Anteneasmon est species maniæ      |
| periculosa nimium. Irritantur tanquam maniaci, et in se manus        |
| injiciunt. Hi subito arripiuntur, _cum saltatione manuum et pedum,   |
| quia intra aurium cavernas quasi voces diversas sonare falso         |
| audiunt, ut sunt diversorum instrumentorum musicæ soni; quibus       |
| delectantur, ut statim saltent_, aut cursum velocem arripiant;       |
| subito arripientes gladium percutiunt se aut alios: morsibus         |
| se et alios attrectare non dubitant. Hos Latini percussores,         |
| alii dicunt dæmonis legiones esse, ut dum eos arripiunt, vexent      |
| et vulnerent. Diligentia eis imponenda est, quando istos sonos       |
| audierint, includantur, et post accessionis horas phlebotomentur,    |
| et venter eis moveatur. Cibos leves accipiant cum calida aqua, ut    |
| omnis ventositas, quæ in cerebro sonum facit, egeratur. In ipsa      |
| accessione silentium habeant. Quod si spumam per os ejecerint, _vel  |
| ex canis rabidi morsu causa fuerit_, intra septem dies moriuntur.”   |
| _Garioponti_, medici vetustissimi, de morborum causis, accidentibus  |
| et curationibus. Libri VIII. Basil. 1536. 8vo. L. I. ch. 2. p. 27.   |
|                                                                      |
| [261] _J. P. Papon._ De la peste, ou les époques mémorables de ce    |
| fléau. Paris, an 8. 8vo. Tome II. page 270. (1119. 1126. 1135.       |
| 1193. 1225. 1227. 1231. 1234. 1243. 1254. 1288. 1301. 1311. 1316.    |
| 1335. 1340.)                                                         |
|                                                                      |
| [262] 1347 to 1350.                                                  |
|                                                                      |
| [263] _Athanasius Kircher_ gives a full account of the instruments   |
| then in use, which differed very slightly from those of our days.    |
| Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni. Romæ,       |
| 1650, fol. Tom. I. p. 477.                                           |
|                                                                      |
| [264] Genialium dierum Libri VI. Lugdun. Bat. 1673. 8vo. Lib. II.    |
| ch. 17. p. 398. _Alex. ab Alexandro_, a distinguished Neapolitan     |
| lawyer, lived from 1461 to 1523. The historian _Gaudentius Merula_,  |
| who became celebrated about 1536, makes only a very slight mention   |
| of the Tarantism. Memorabilium _Gaud. Merulæ_ Novariensis opus, &c.  |
| Lugdun. 1656. 8vo. L. III. ch. 69. p. 251.                           |
|                                                                      |
| [265] _Petr. And. Matthioli_ Commentarii in Dioscorid. Venet. 1565.  |
| fol. Lib. II ch. 57. p. 362.                                         |

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The Epidemics of the Middle AgesHecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl)

History

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

Hecker, J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl)

Black Death; Epidemics -- History; Hysteria, Epidemic

| conservanda bona valetudine præcepta. Stendal. 1790. 8vo. p. 38.     |
|                                                                      |
| [260] The passage is as follows: “Anteneasmon est species maniæ      |
| periculosa nimium. Irritantur tanquam maniaci, et in se manus        |
| injiciunt. Hi subito arripiuntur, _cum saltatione manuum et pedum,   |
| quia intra aurium cavernas quasi voces diversas sonare falso         |
| audiunt, ut sunt diversorum instrumentorum musicæ soni; quibus       |
| delectantur, ut statim saltent_, aut cursum velocem arripiant;       |
| subito arripientes gladium percutiunt se aut alios: morsibus         |
| se et alios attrectare non dubitant. Hos Latini percussores,         |
| alii dicunt dæmonis legiones esse, ut dum eos arripiunt, vexent      |
| et vulnerent. Diligentia eis imponenda est, quando istos sonos       |
| audierint, includantur, et post accessionis horas phlebotomentur,    |
| et venter eis moveatur. Cibos leves accipiant cum calida aqua, ut    |
| omnis ventositas, quæ in cerebro sonum facit, egeratur. In ipsa      |
| accessione silentium habeant. Quod si spumam per os ejecerint, _vel  |
| ex canis rabidi morsu causa fuerit_, intra septem dies moriuntur.”   |
| _Garioponti_, medici vetustissimi, de morborum causis, accidentibus  |
| et curationibus. Libri VIII. Basil. 1536. 8vo. L. I. ch. 2. p. 27.   |
|                                                                      |
| [261] _J. P. Papon._ De la peste, ou les époques mémorables de ce    |
| fléau. Paris, an 8. 8vo. Tome II. page 270. (1119. 1126. 1135.       |
| 1193. 1225. 1227. 1231. 1234. 1243. 1254. 1288. 1301. 1311. 1316.    |
| 1335. 1340.)                                                         |
|                                                                      |
| [262] 1347 to 1350.                                                  |
|                                                                      |
| [263] _Athanasius Kircher_ gives a full account of the instruments   |
| then in use, which differed very slightly from those of our days.    |
| Musurgia universalis, sive Ars magna consoni et dissoni. Romæ,       |
| 1650, fol. Tom. I. p. 477.                                           |
|                                                                      |
| [264] Genialium dierum Libri VI. Lugdun. Bat. 1673. 8vo. Lib. II.    |
| ch. 17. p. 398. _Alex. ab Alexandro_, a distinguished Neapolitan     |
| lawyer, lived from 1461 to 1523. The historian _Gaudentius Merula_,  |
| who became celebrated about 1536, makes only a very slight mention   |
| of the Tarantism. Memorabilium _Gaud. Merulæ_ Novariensis opus, &c.  |
| Lugdun. 1656. 8vo. L. III. ch. 69. p. 251.                           |
|                                                                      |
| [265] _Petr. And. Matthioli_ Commentarii in Dioscorid. Venet. 1565.  |
| fol. Lib. II ch. 57. p. 362.                                         |

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The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

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