Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was a German medical doctor and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time.
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Justus Friedrich Karl Hecker was a German medical doctor and medical writer, whose works appear in medical encyclopaedias and journals of the time. He particularly studied disease in relation to human history, including plague, smallpox, infant mortality, dancing mania and the sweating sickness, and is often said to have founded the study of the history of disease.
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GermanyCategory
Doctors
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Doctor
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deceased
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Lived 1795 to 1850 · aged 55
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