Comment by BubbleRings

3 hours ago

> what would these forboding circumstances have been attributed to at the time?

I’ll bet witchcraft got brought up, and praying to the wrong god or going to the wrong church.

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defrost  2 hours ago

Why bother with books when we can just vibe-feel "history", 'ey?

  Hence gout and stone afflict the human race;
  Hence lazy jaundice with her saffron face;
  Palsy, with shaking head and tott'ring knees.
  And bloated dropsy, the staunch sot's disease;
  Consumption, pale, with keen but hollow eye,
  And sharpened feature, shew'd that death was nigh.
  The feeble offspring curse their crazy sires,
  And, tainted from his birth, the youth expires.

~ Description of lead poisoning by an anonymous Roman hermit who failed to mention witchcraft, wrong gods, bad churches.