It started with a single lady dancing solo for a number of days, earlier than ultimately increasingly more individuals grew to become affected. Doctors proclaimed that the sickness was brought on by overheated blood, and advisable that the inflicted ought to proceed to shimmy and sway the fever away – musicians have been even referred to as in and a stage was arrange within the city centre to present the ‘dancers’ extra room. Whereas the thought could appear humorous at first, most of them saved dancing until they fell unconscious, and a few died from exhaustion, coronary heart assault, or stroke.
