Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker eBooks

Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was one of three generations of distinguished professors of medicine. His father, August Friedrich Hecker, a most industrious writer, first practised as a physician in Frankenhausen, >>

The work focuses on two of the most devastating phenomena ever suffered by the European population. The deadly plague known as "Black Death" spread in late 1340s while the "Dancing Mania" persisted from >>

The account of "The Black Death" here translated by Dr. Babington was Hecker's first important work of this kind. It was published in 1832, and was followed in the same year by his account of "The Dancing >>