The Dancing Plague

Author: John Waller
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1402219431
Category: Medical

The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness

A gripping tale of one of history's most bizarre events, and what it reveals about the strange possibilities of human nature In the searing July heat of 1518, Frau Troffea stepped into the streets of Strasbourg and began to dance. Download The Dancing Plague medical books for free.
Bathed in sweat, she continued to dance. Overcome with exhaustion, she stopped, and then resumed her solitary jig a few hours later. Over the next two months, roughly four hundred people succumbed to the same agonizing compulsion. At its peak, the epidemic claimed the lives of fifteen men, women, and children a day. Possibly 100 people danced to their deaths in one of the most bizarre and terrifying plagues in history. John Waller compellingly evokes the sights, sounds, and aromas; the diseases and hardships; t Get The Dancing Plague our bestseller medical books.

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Bathed in sweat, she continued to dance. Overcome with exhaustion, she stopped, and then resumed her solitary jig a few hours later. Over the next two months, roughly four hundred people succumbed to the same agonizing compulsion. At its peak, the epidemic claimed the lives of fifteen men, women, and children a day John Waller compellingly evokes the sights, sounds, and aromas; the diseases and hardships; t

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