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Searchers were sometimes coerced or bribed to mask patients' causes of death. Pressure from family members and others in the household would ask that the deaths of those affected would be attributed to alternative, less severe diseases than the plague in order to avoid the inconvenience of quarantine put on houses of those who had passed from ...
Pages in category "17th-century deaths" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 456 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Despite the efforts of royal surgeons Ambroise Paré and Andreas Vesalius, the court doctors ultimately "advocated a wait-and-see strategy"; [13] as a result, the king's untreated eye and brain damage led to his death by sepsis ten days later. [14] His death played a significant role in the decline of jousting as a sport, particularly in France ...
In the winter of 1646, Pascal's 58-year-old father broke his hip when he slipped and fell on an icy street of Rouen; given the man's age and the state of medicine in the 17th century, a broken hip could be a very serious condition, perhaps even fatal. Rouen was home to two of the finest doctors in France, Deslandes and de la Bouteillerie.
There were also witch-hunts during the 17th century in the American colonies. These were particularly common in the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven. The myth of the witch had a strong cultural presence in 17th century New England and, as in Europe, witchcraft was strongly associated with devil-worship. [3]
Early New England Puritan funerary art conveys a practical attitude towards 17th-century mortality; death was an ever-present reality of life, [1] and their funerary traditions and grave art provide a unique insight into their views on death. The minimalist decoration and lack of embellishment of the early headstone designs reflect the British ...
17th-century executions by the Thirteen Colonies (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "17th-century executions" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China (1998). Langer, William. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free; Reid, A. J. S. Trade and State Power in 16th & 17th Century Southeast Asia (1977). Spence, J. D. The Death of Woman Wang: Rural Life in China in the 17th Century (1978).