The Epidemics of the Middle Ages. From the German of . . . Hecker. Translated by B. G. Babington. Third edition, completed by the author's treatise on Child-Pilgrimages.
by HECKER, Justus Friedrich Karl (1795-1850).
London:: Trubner, 1859., 1859. 8vo. xxiv, 360 pp. Errata slip, Appendices, including A Boke, or Counseill against the Disease commonly called The Sweate, or Sweatying Sicknesse by Jhon Caius; Child-Pilgrimages. Original full brown blind- and gilt-stamped cloth. Ownership rubber-stamp of Rev. J.B. Mackenzie; signature of M. Mackenzie, Tarbert. Near fine copy. Hecker is said to have founded the study of the history of disease. In Epidemics of the Middle Ages; Translated by B. G. Babington, there are three extended sections on "The Black Death", "The Dancing Mania", "The Sweating Sickness" as well as an appendix with another book by Caius on The Sweate, or Sweatying Sickness. Provenance: M. Mackenzie, Tarbert [Scotland] – Reverend James B. Mackenzie, Kenmore, Aberfeldy. See: Garrison & Morton 1678 and 5522.
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