ABSTRACT
In the decades after Caspar Kegler and Martin Luther became prominent plague authors, a new generation continued the reform of healing in plague texts. This chapter explores a number of German physicians who penned some of the most reprinted or most original plague texts in the decades after 1530. These include: Johann Reusch, Tarquinius Schnellenberg, Jodocus Willich, and Ernst Reuchlin. The chapter investigates both their lives and their writings, in an effort to show how plague advice changed amid the medical, religious, and social concerns of the time. The effort to create a more German medicine grew significantly in the decades after Johann Vochs's text reappeared in print in 1537. As seen with Reusch and Schnellenberg, the emerging Protestant Reformation was a part of the cultural context of medical reform, even as these two physicians were more interested in working out the details of a German medicine or local understanding of the epidemics.
