J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker
Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was a German physician and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time. He particularly studied disease in relation to human history, including plague, smallpox, infant mortality, dancing mania and the sweating sickness, and is often said to have founded the study of the history of disease.
The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania
A deadly plague and a strange dancing frenzy reveal the hidden layers of human nature amid chaos and uncertainty in Europe.
By J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages
Uncover the chilling story of medieval Europe as it falls prey to deadly diseases, mass hysteria, and the desperate search for answers in a time of ignorance and fear.
By J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker
The Black Death in the Fourteenth Century
In the 1300s, a disease brought unimaginable suffering, turning a continent upside down and forever changing how people lived and died.
By J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker