Illnesses in the Elizabethan Era · The Bubonic Plague killed at least one third of the population, making it one of the greatest threats. · Malaria was another ...

Common diseases during that time included anaemia, rheumatism, arthritis, tuberculosis and dysentery (known as the flux), and the Bubonic Plague.

15 авг. 2024 г. · On BBC Radio 4, Melvyn Bragg and guests talk about blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. These are the four humours, a theory of disease ...

Anemia was a disease back then that was as common as rheumatism, arthritis, tuberculosis and dysentery. Child bearing and sometimes childbed fever was very ...

"Crowd diseases" such as typhus, smallpox, and tuberculosis prospered, and bubonic plague epidemics periodically swept through dense urban populations. In 1563, ...

All were marked with distinctive black boils, which the Plague was named for. These gruesome boils oozed blood and puss. The people of the town immediately sent ...

Worst Diseases in Shakespeare's London · 1. Plague · 2. Smallpox · 3. Syphilis · 4. Typhus · 5. Malaria

A recent exhibit organized by the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library highlighted themes from Shakespeare's works, including plague, midwifery, domestic medicine, ...

15 дек. 2011 г. · The common cough and cold spread quickly in the winters of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Dr John Hall, married to Shakespeare's eldest ...