 | Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker - Black Death - 1859 - 400 pages
...in a less artificial manner, by thumping and trampling upon the parts affected. While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external...in a stream of blood, which obliged them to leap so high.2 Others, during the paroxysm, saw the heavens open and the Saviour enthroned with the Virgin... | |
 | Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker - Black Death - 1859 - 434 pages
...impressions through the senses, but were haunted by visions, their fancies conjuring up spirits whose names1 they shrieked out ; and some of them afterwards asserted...in a stream of blood, which obliged them to leap so high.3 Others, during the paroxysm, saw the heavens open and the Saviour enthroned with the Virgin... | |
 | Viscountess Mary Woolley Gibbings Cotton Combermere - Characters and characteristics - 1863 - 444 pages
...they again recovered, and remained free from complaint until the next attack. " While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external...stream of blood, which obliged them to leap so high. " It was but a few months ere this demoniacal disease had spread from Aix-la-Chapelle, where it appeared... | |
 | 1863 - 534 pages
...parts affected. While dancing, they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external impression through the senses, but were haunted by visions, their...stream of blood, which obliged them to leap so high. Where the disease was completely developed, the attack commenced with epileptic convulsions. Those... | |
 | 1866 - 900 pages
...neighboring countries. While dancing, the infected persons were insensible to external impressions, but were haunted by visions, their fancies conjuring up spirits whose names they shrieked out. Some asserted that they felt a? if immersed in va stream of blood, which obliged them to leap so Jiigh;... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1866 - 828 pages
...neighboring countries. "While dancing, the infected persons were insensible to external impressions, but were haunted by visions, their fancies conjuring up spirits, whose names they shrieked out. Some asserted that they felt as if immersed in a stream of blood, which' obliged them to leap so high... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1868 - 684 pages
...together, until at length they fell to the ground in a state of exhaustion. . . While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external...through the senses ; but were haunted by visions, their fancy conjuring up spirits, whose names they shrieked out, and some of them afterwards asserted that... | |
 | William Alexander Hammond - Nervous system - 1871 - 766 pages
...in a less artificial manner, by thumping and trampling upon the parts affected. While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external impressions through the senses, but were haunt1 Epidemics of the Middle Ages. Sydenham Society Translation, 1844, p. 87. ed by visions — their... | |
 | Science - 1873 - 800 pages
...cataleptics. Hecker, describing the dancing mania of the fourteenth century, says : ' While dancing, they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external...conjuring up spirits, whose names they shrieked out. . . . Others, during the paroxysm, saw the heavens open, and the Saviour enthroned with the Virgin... | |
 | George Herbert Curteis - Apologetics - 1872 - 482 pages
...death. . . They were haunted by visions : and some of them afterwards asserted that they had felt as if immersed in a stream of blood. which obliged them to leap so high. [Cf. George Fox, Journal, i. 100 : ' The word of the Lord came to me again. .. So I went up and down... | |
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While dancing they neither saw nor heard, being insensible to external impressions through the senses, but were haunted by visions... 
