The Epidemics of the Middle AgesTrübner & Company, 1859 - Всего страниц: 360 |
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14th century according affected ancient appeared atmosphere attack Avignon Balavignus Black Death Black Plague blood Boccacio body broke buboes called causes Christian Chronicle church circumstances commencement commotion consequence contagion contemporaries convulsions DANCING MANIA danger destructive died disease disorder earth England English Sweating Sickness epidemic eruption Europe excited existence fatal favourable fell Flagellants France frequently Germany Guy de Chauliac haue human infected inflammation inflammatory boils influence inhabitants Italy Jews kind less Lübeck malady malignant medicine middle ages miliary fever mind modern mortality Nangis nations nature observed occurred origin Paris patients period persons perspiration pestilence petechial petechial fever phenomena physician poison prevailed probably quæ rerum respecting rheumatic scarcely SECT Seine et Oise seized Spangenberg spirit spread Strasburg suffered sweating fever symptoms Tarantism tarantula theim tion took towns tyme violent visited whole women
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Стр. 64 - They formed circles hand in hand, and appearing to have lost all control over their senses, continued dancing, regardless of the bystanders, for hours together in wild delirium, until at length they fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion.
Стр. 273 - A Chronicle of the Kings of England From the time of the Romans Government unto the Death of King James.
Стр. 31 - Amid this general lamentation and woe, the influence and authority of every law, human and divine, vanished. Most of those who were in office had been carried off by the plague, or lay sick, or had lost so many members of their families, that they were unable to attend to their duties ; so that, henceforth, every one acted as he thought proper.
Стр. 31 - ... from time to time, in order to invigorate the brain, and to avert the baneful influence of the air, infected by the sick, and by the innumerable corpses of those who had died of the plague. " Others carried their precaution still further, and thought the surest way to escape death was by flight. They therefore left the city ; women as well as men abandoning their dwellings and their relations, and retiring into the country. But of these also many were carried off, most of them alone and deserted...
Стр. 82 - In the fifteenth century, a nun in a German convent fell to biting her companions. In the course of a short time all the nuns of this convent began biting each other. The news of this infatuation among the nuns soon spread, and excited the same elsewhere ; the biting mania passing from convent to convent through a great part of Germany.
Стр. 18 - ... fixed on the ground, accompanied by every token of the deepest contrition and mourning. They were robed in sombre garments, with red crosses on the breast, back, and cap, and bore triple scourges, tied in three or four knots, in which points of iron were fixed. Tapers, and magnificent banners of velvet and cloth of gold, were carried before them ; wherever they made their appearance, they were welcomed by the ringing of the bells ; and the people flocked from all quarters to listen to their hymns,...
Стр. 66 - Tongres, and many other towns of Belgium, the dancers appeared with garlands in their hair, and their waists girt with cloths, that they might, as soon as the paroxysm was over, receive immediate relief on the attack of the tympany. This bandage was, by the insertion of a stick, easily twisted tight: many, however, obtained more relief from kicks and blows, which they found numbers of persons ready to administer; for, wherever the dancers appeared, the people assembled in crowds to gratify their...
Стр. 72 - ... pining away in a desponding state of lassitude. Many became weak-sighted or hard of hearing, some lost the power of speech, and all were insensible to ordinary causes of excitement. Nothing but the flute or the cithern afforded them relief.* At the sound of these instruments they awoke as...
Стр. 69 - Those who were bitten generally fell into a state of melancholy, and appeared to be stupiued, and scarcely in possession of their senses. This condition was, in many cases, united with so great a sensibility to music, that, at the very first tones of their favourite melodies, they sprang up, shouting for joy, and danced on without intermission, until they sank to the ground exhausted and almost lifeless.
Стр. 90 - ... baptized her again in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, which ceremony concluded her cure. Some are taken in this manner to the market-place for many days before they can be cured, and it sometimes happens that they cannot be cured at all. I have seen them in these fits dance with a bruly, or bottle of maize, upon their heads, without spilling the liquor, or letting the bottle fall, although they have put themselves into the most extravagant postures.