Thursday, December 22, 2011

Best Tweets of 2011: Ailments

After yesterday's grizzly deaths, today we recap some of the more unusual ailments we've seen in MEMSO this year.

1677: Archbishop of Canterbury has stranguary (painful and frequent spasms of urination, wrenching out only small drops) PLUS hiccups. Baaaaad combo.

1688: Duchess of Monmouth is 'in great trouble of the shortness of her lame leg ... likely to get shorter & shorter'. Hurt doing dancing tricks.

June 1669: Queen Catherine miscarries after 'being affrighted by an unfortunate accident with one of the King's [Charles II] tame foxes'. The fox followed Charles II into bedchamber at night undetected. In early hours of a.m., fox ran over sleeping Queen's face and into the bed.

29/9/16[42]: Oliver Cromwell's carriage overturns. His belly and thigh so bruised he can't move. The details kept secret due to dishonour of it. [He was driving!]

8/4/1528: Bishop of Lincoln can't perform his duty to Henry VIII this Easter as his limbs are too unwieldy. Shaky hands not ideal Communion

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