Carlson, Laurie M.      <br/><br/>
A fever in Salem   a new interpretation of the New England witch trials  
Laurie Winn Carlson 
 - Chicago   I.R. Dee  1999. 
 - xvi, 197 p.   22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-188) and index. 
<br/><br/>The witch craze in seventeenth-century New England -- The afflicted -- The response -- Mental illness and the persecution of witches -- The forgotten epidemic -- What happened at Salem? -- Alternative outcomes -- Could encephalitis lethargica return? -- Satanic possession and Christian beliefs. 
<br/><br/> A reinterpretation of the events in Salem in 1692 reveals a medical cause for the strange symptoms that afflicted Salem residents and that were explained at the time as evidence of witchcraft 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1566632536 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99027520 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Witchcraft--History--Massachusetts--Salem--17th century.<br/>Epidemic encephalitis--History--Massachusetts--Salem--17th century.<br/>Encephalitis, Arbovirus--history--Massachusetts.<br/>History of Medicine, 17th Cent.--Massachusetts.<br/>Mental Disorders--history--Massachusetts.<br/>Witchcraft--history--Massachusetts.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF1576  / .C37 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>133.43097445 Car   7 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>1999 I-445 WC 542  / C284f 1999