The Epidemics of the Middle Ages

<p> The Council of the Sydenham Society having deemed Hecker's three treatises on different Epidemics occurring in the Middle Ages worthy of being collected into a volume and laid before its members in an English dress I have felt much pleasure in presenting them with the copyright of the Black Death; in negociating for them the purchase of that of the Dancing Mania whereof I could resign only my share of a joint interest; and in preparing for the press these productions together with a translation now for the first time made public of the Sweating Sickness. This last work from its greater length and from the immediate relation of its chief subject to our own country may be considered the most interesting and important of the series.</p>