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Quotation from St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania by Vitus tradition; J. F. C. Hecker; Benjamin Guy Babington
“Paracelsus divides the St. Vitus's dance into three kinds. First, that which arises from imagination (Vitista, Chorea imaginativa, aestimativa), by which the original Dancing Plague was to be understood”
St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania, The Dancing Mania, Ch. I, Sect. 5, trans. Benjamin Guy Babington (1833/1888)
Hecker presents Paracelsus as a turning point from demonology to medical classification.
Citation: "Paracelsus divides the St. Vitus's dance into three kinds. First, that which arises from imagination (Vitista, Chorea imaginativa, aestimativa), by which the original Dancing Plague was to be understood" — Vitus tradition; J. F. C. Hecker; Benjamin Guy Babington, St. Vitus and the Dancing Mania, The Dancing Mania, Ch. I, Sect. 5, trans. Benjamin Guy Babington (1833/1888). (id st-vitus-and-dancing-mania-q3)
