The Epidemics of the Middle Ages by J. F. C. Hecker and John Caius
1349. Sweden, indeed, not until November of that year: almost two years
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after its eruption in Avignon[59]. Poland received the plague in 1349,
probably from Germany[60], if not from the northern countries; but in
Russia, it did not make its appearance until 1351, more than three
years after it had broken out in Constantinople. Instead of advancing
in a north-westerly direction from Tauris and from the Caspian Sea,
it had thus made the great circuit of the Black Sea, by way of
Constantinople, Southern and Central Europe, England, the northern
kingdoms and Poland, before it reached the Russian territories; a
phenomenon which has not again occurred with respect to more recent
pestilences originating in Asia.
Whether any difference existed between the indigenous plague, excited
by the influence of the atmosphere, and that which was imported
by contagion, can no longer be ascertained from facts; for the
contemporaries, who in general were not competent to make accurate
researches of this kind, have left no data on the subject. A milder
and a more malignant form certainly existed, and the former was
not always derived from the latter, as is to be supposed from this
circumstance—that the spitting of blood, the infallible diagnostic of
the latter, on the first breaking out of the plague, is not similarly
mentioned in all the reports; and it is therefore probable, that the
milder form belonged to the native plague,—the more malignant, to that
introduced by contagion. Contagion was, however, in itself, only one of
many causes which gave rise to the Black Plague.
This disease was a consequence of violent commotions in the earth’s
organism—if any disease of cosmical origin can be so considered. One
spring set a thousand others in motion for the annihilation of living
beings, transient or permanent, of mediate or immediate effect. The
most powerful of all was contagion; for in the most distant countries
which had scarcely yet heard the echo of the first concussion, the
people fell a sacrifice to organic poison,—the untimely offspring of
vital energies thrown into violent commotion.
Chapters
1. Chapter 1
2. CHAPTER I.
3. CHAPTER II.
4. CHAPTER III.
5. CHAPTER IV.
6. CHAPTER V.
7. CHAPTER VI.
8. CHAPTER I.
9. CHAPTER II.
10. CHAPTER III.
11. CHAPTER IV.
12. CHAPTER I.
13. CHAPTER II.
14. CHAPTER III.
15. CHAPTER IV.
16. CHAPTER V.
17. CHAPTER VI.
18. CHAPTER I.
19. CHAPTER II.
20. CHAPTER III.
21. 1349. Sweden, indeed, not until November of that year: almost two years
22. CHAPTER IV.
23. CHAPTER V.
24. CHAPTER VI.
25. CHAPTER I.
26. CHAPTER II.
27. CHAPTER III.
28. CHAPTER IV.
29. 1. “At a cotton manufactory at Hodden Bridge, in Lancashire, a girl, on
30. 2. “A young woman of the lowest order, twenty-one years of age, and
31. 3. In a Methodist chapel at Redruth, a man during divine service, cried
32. 4. For the last hundred years a nervous affection of a perfectly
33. 5. The appearance of the _Convulsionnaires_ in France, whose
34. 6. Similar fanatical sects exhibit among all nations[337] of ancient
35. CHAPTER I.
36. CHAPTER II.
37. 1515. Exact descriptions, however, of these disorders are entirely
38. CHAPTER III.
39. CHAPTER IV.
40. CHAPTER V.
41. CHAPTER VI.
42. 1690. Stuttgard.
43. 1713. Saint Valery. (Somme.)
44. 1715. Breslau.
45. 1718. Tübingen.
46. 1724. Turin.
47. 1726. Acqui.
48. 1728. Chambéry, Annecy, St. Jean de Maurienne. (Savoy.)
49. 1732. Nizza.
50. 1733. Fossano.
51. 1734. Strasburg. (Lower Rhine.)
52. 1735. Trino.
53. 1738. Luzarches, Royaumont. (Seine et Oise.)
54. 1740. Caen. (Calvados.)
55. 1741. Rouen. (Lower Seine.)
56. 1742. Caudebec. (Lower Seine.)
57. 1747. Paris. (Seine.)
58. 1750. Schaffhausen.
59. 1756. Cusset. (Allier.)
60. 1759. Paris. (Seine.)
61. 1763. Vire. (Calvados.)
62. 1765. Balleroy, Basoques. (Calvados.)
63. 1767. Thinchebray, Truttemer. (Orne.)
64. 1782. Castelnaudary. (Aude.)
65. 1821. La Chapelle, Saint-Pierre and sixty places around. (Oise; Seine
66. 1485. Richmond obtains support France, and epidemic pleuritis
67. 1485. From the 1st to the 22d Plague in Spain.
68. 1495. Useless war for the _Sweating Sickness._
69. 1495. Eruption of the syphilitic
70. 1499. Great plague in London.
71. 1501. His eldest son, Arthur, in Germany and France.
72. 1502. Prince Arthur dies. in Germany.
73. 1501. conquers Naples in 1505. First epidemic petechial
74. 1504. expelled thence. He shewed a decided determination
75. 1511. Pope Julius II. (1503–1513) 1505. Moist summer. Lamentable
76. 1504. Isabella of Castile dies. _to England, until the_
77. 1516. Ferdinand the Catholic in Spain.
78. 1515. the Swiss, in the battle moist summer.
79. 1516. Cardinal Wolsey changes of Europe.
80. 1520. then of Charles V. (diphtheritis) in Holland,
81. 1517. 31st of October, Luther Bâsle.
82. 1519. 12th January, the Emperor in Swabia (and Spain).
83. 1517. May: Insurrections of _London of the third visitation_
84. 1517. In the autumn and winter, _it spreads with great_
85. 1518. 11th February, Queen _December. Ammonius, of Lucca,_
86. 1518. The College of Physicians _learned persons in Oxford_
87. 1521. Henry VIII. opposes 1517. In December, immediately
88. 1517. Small-pox breaks out in
89. 1524. October, Francis I. 1524. Great plague at Milan,
90. 1526. 14th January. Peace of 1527. 11th August, a comet.
91. 1526. Clement VII. (1523–1534) army in Italy, after the sacking
92. 1527. 6th May. Rome is vanquished and heat.
93. 1528. A French army, under summer fogs in Italy. Second
94. 1528. 1st May, the siege of army before Naples by a
95. 1528. 29th August, the siege of summer in France.
96. 1528. Charles V. challenges in that country.
97. 1529. 5th August, Francis I. off a fourth part of the
98. 1527. Scruples of Henry VIII. 1528. _At the end of May: outbreak_
99. 1528. Henry VIII. retires to _and terminates in the winter._
100. 1532. Separation of the king _not return in the following_
101. 1533. January, Anna Boleyn winds. Great drought.
102. 1535. Thomas More and Fisher Germany.
103. 1536. Anna Boleyn is executed. Italy. Sanguineous rain at
104. 1537. Anne of Cleves becomes 1529. Mild winter in Germany.
105. 1541. Catherine Howard, queen, throughout the summer. General
106. 1547. 13th December, Henry of the river fish in the
107. 1521. Plots of the Iconoclasts among birds. Languor resembling
108. 1529. 22d September-16th St. Vitus) in the south of
109. 1529. 2d October, assemblage 24th of August, and the
110. 1530. 25th June, surrender of _the epidemic Sweating Sickness_
111. 1531. League of the Protestant _On the 14th August_
112. 1532. Imperial Diet at Nuremberg. _to spread universally all over_
113. 1536. The Schmalkaldic league _termination on the 6th_
114. 1538. The Catholic States establish _August in Strasburg. On_
115. 1540. Paul III. (1534–1550) _and Francfort on the Maine._
116. 1530. In October, overflow of
117. 1531. 1st of August to 3d
118. 1532. From 2d October to 8th
119. 1533. From the middle of June
120. 1534. Termination of the years
121. 1542. Maurice Duke of Saxony 1538. Epidemic dysentery in
122. 1542. The imperial army which forests take fire spontaneously.
123. 1546. The 18th of February, in Hungary during the war
124. 1546. Charles V. takes the field 1543. Plague and petechial
125. 1547. 24th April, the battle of Boulogne.
126. 1548. Duke Maurice to the and France.
127. 1551. Magdeburg declared to red water in the north of
128. 1552. Henry II. of France among cattle in Germany.
129. 1552. The treaty of Passau (petechial fever?) in the
130. 1553. Mary persecutes the 1551. In the spring, stinking
131. 1556. Charles V. abdicates, and 1551. _On the 15th of April_
132. 1113. Paris, ap. H. Stephan. 1513, 4to.
133. 1583. Jar ergangen, kurtz und richtig nach der Ordnung der
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