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Strasbourg City Council
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Strasbourg city council minutes from late July 1518 explicitly reference the dancing outbreak and measures taken to address it. Strasbourg city council hires musicians and builds wooden stages for dancers. Authorities believed the cure was to 'dance out' the affliction per humoral theory.
··1952 — 2008·Government Agency
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The Dancing Plague of 1518
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