Reading the Past | French Pox, Bloody Flux and Other Historical Illnesses @ReadingthePast | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
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Let’s add to our history glossary series and take a look at the illnesses of the past…
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Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
SFX from freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Bills of Mortality shown on screen can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_of_mortality#/media/File:Bill_of_Mortality.jpg and thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2820%2930725-X/fulltext and slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/bill-of-mortality-document-shows-death-toll-during-the-great-plague-of-london.html
Screenshot of oed.com/dictionary/apoplexy_n?tab=meaning_and_use#613441
Screenshot of nhs.uk/conditions/craniosynostosis
Screenshots of nhs.uk/conditions/hydrocephalus
Mary I "healing" scrofula by touch. A 16th-century illustration by the Queen's miniaturist Levina Teerlinc from Queen Mary's manual for blessing cramp rings and touching for Evil.
Charles II touching a patient for the king's evil. Engraving by R. White in Adenochoiradelogia. Thomas Browne, published London 1684.
Portrait of Queen Anne from the studio of John Closterman (c.1702, based on a work of c.1702). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Photograph of a Timpani set-up. Uploaded to Wikimedia by Flamurai (2005).
Quoted texts:
Sections from Henry VI part II.
Tampa, M., Sarbu, I., Matei, C., Benea, V., & Georgescu, S. R. (2014). Brief history of syphilis. Journal of medicine and life, 7(1), 4–10.
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene iii
Nicholas Sander, The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism; p.25
Also consulted, were:
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
OED online.
#History #Medicine #Science
Go to squarespace.com/readingthepast to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.
Let’s add to our history glossary series and take a look at the illnesses of the past…
Please check out my website and sign up to the mailing list to receive updates from me: katrinamarchant.com
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Also, if you want to get in touch, please comment down below or find me on social media:
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Email: readingthepastwithdrkat@gmail.com
Intro / Outro song: Silent Partner, "Greenery" [youtube.com/watch?v=qeIkbW49B6A]
SFX from freesfx.co.uk/Default.aspx
Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):
Bills of Mortality shown on screen can be found at: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_of_mortality#/media/File:Bill_of_Mortality.jpg and thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2820%2930725-X/fulltext and slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/bill-of-mortality-document-shows-death-toll-during-the-great-plague-of-london.html
Screenshot of oed.com/dictionary/apoplexy_n?tab=meaning_and_use#613441
Screenshot of nhs.uk/conditions/craniosynostosis
Screenshots of nhs.uk/conditions/hydrocephalus
Mary I "healing" scrofula by touch. A 16th-century illustration by the Queen's miniaturist Levina Teerlinc from Queen Mary's manual for blessing cramp rings and touching for Evil.
Charles II touching a patient for the king's evil. Engraving by R. White in Adenochoiradelogia. Thomas Browne, published London 1684.
Portrait of Queen Anne from the studio of John Closterman (c.1702, based on a work of c.1702). Held by the National Portrait Gallery.
Photograph of a Timpani set-up. Uploaded to Wikimedia by Flamurai (2005).
Quoted texts:
Sections from Henry VI part II.
Tampa, M., Sarbu, I., Matei, C., Benea, V., & Georgescu, S. R. (2014). Brief history of syphilis. Journal of medicine and life, 7(1), 4–10.
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, Act V, Scene iii
Nicholas Sander, The Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism; p.25
Also consulted, were:
Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
OED online.
#History #Medicine #Science
