Abstract:Early modern diaries and letters are replete with complaints about the state of the body after illness. ' A long sicknes … has much drained mee … and indeed … my feeble hands … can scarce write', remarked Rev. Thomas Lowgh from Cumbria in 1654. 1 A few years later, the London gentlewoman Ann Fanshawe recorded in her memoirs, 'a very ill kind of fever … brought me so low that I was like an anatomy'. 2 In 1697, Elizabeth Freke from Norfolk lamented, 'God raised me up againe a miserable spectt[ac]le … hardly able… Show more
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