MEDICINE in the Tudors

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Change: The series buys into the deformed foetus theory proposed by Retha Warnicke however most historians (Ives, Starkey, Fraser) dismiss it as catholic propoganda Jane Seymour gives birth to Prince Edward Tudor Season 3 Jane Seymour died from a post-natal infection about 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1096)

Change: Season 2 Season 3 Medical Theory During this period, medicine adhered to Galenic precepts & the humoural explanation for illness.There were 4 "humours" or bodily fluids which governed the body :- Blood- Phlegm- Yellow Bile- Black BilePersonality was also affected   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1054)

Change: Inside the Body of Henry VIII - Did Henry have Syphillis? King Henry's Medical Record: During his youth, he enjoyed reasonably good health but the Doctors were kept busy examining royal urine, stools   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1041)

Change: Renamed from Medicine in the Tudors by MsSquirrly Aug 4 2009, 11:57 AM EDT for: Rename

Change: 1 *Historically, Mary died from consumption/poor health, Margaret died from a stroke. Queen Katherine of Aragon is believed to have died from Cancer due to a black tumor like growth on her heart. Season 2 LINKS:Fun quiz on Tudor MedicineSources:The Royal Doctors, 1485-1714 By Elizabeth Lane Furdell   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 1003)

Change: ] Most sources attest only to the birth of Elizabeth in September 1533, a possible miscarriage in the summer of 1534, and the miscarriage of a male child, of almost four months gestation, in January 1536. [Williams, chapter 4.] Jane Seymour gives birth to Prince Edward Tudor   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 973)

Change: disputedbut it is generally thought to be 6disputed Cardinal Thomas Wolsey survives the Sweating Sickness epidemic. Season 1 Anne Boleyn gives birth to Princess Elizabeth Tudor Season 2 Henry Fitzroy dies from the Sweating Sickness* Season 1 *Historically Fitzroy died from consumption. Anne Boleyn would suffer several* miscarriages.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 847)

Change: PlegmPhlegm- Yellow Bile- Black BilePersonality was also affected by the "Humours". People with too much blood were sanguine, or ardent & hopeful. Those with too much plegmphlegm were phlegmatic, or dull & apathetic; melancholiacs, the depressed   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 848)

Change: modern case of Osteomylitis - viewer discretion advised Medical Theory During this period, medicine adhered to Galenic precepts & the humoural explanation for illness.There were 4 "humours" or bodily fluids which governed the body :- Blood- Plegm- Yellow Bile- Black BilePersonality was   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 848)