【英文原著类】The Black DeathThe Dancing Mania(黑死病).pdf

The Black Death and The Dancing Mania
The Black Death and The
Dancing Mania
. Hecke
The Black Death and The Dancing Mania
INTRODUCTION
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, and in 1790 was appointed Professor of Medicine at the
University of Erfurt. In 1805 he was called to the like professorship at
the University of Berlin. He died at Berlin in 1811.
Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was born at Erfurt in January, 1795. He
went, of course--being then ten years old--with his father to Berlin in 1805,
studied at Berlin in the Gymnasium and University, but interrupted his
studies at the age of eighteen to fight as a volunteer in the war for a
renunciation of Napoleon and all his works. After Waterloo he went back
to his studies, took his doctor's degree in 1817 with a treatise on the
"Antiquities of Hydrocephalus," and became privat-docent in the Medical
Faculty of the Berlin University. His inclination was strong from the first
towards the historical side of inquiries into Medicine. This caused him to
undertake a "History of Medicine," of which the first volume appeared in
1822. It obtained rank for him at Berlin as Extraordinary Professor of the
History of Medicine. This office was changed into an Ordinary
professorship of the same study in 1834, and Hecker held that office until
his death in 1850.
The office was created for a man who had a special genius for this
form of study. It was delightful to himself, and he made it delightful to
others. He is regarded as the founder of historical pathology. He
studied disease in relation to the history of man, made his study yield to
men outside his own profession an important chapter in the history of
civilisation, and even took into account physical phenomena upon the
surface of the globe as often affecting the mov