{"id":461,"date":"2012-04-04T14:29:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=461"},"modified":"2012-04-04T14:29:33","modified_gmt":"2012-04-04T11:29:33","slug":"rabbits-and-open-veins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/rabbits-and-open-veins\/","title":{"rendered":"rabbits and open veins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, coming across nice little peeks into Early Modern life today:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This inclosed for yo<em>u<\/em>r lor<em>dshi<\/em>p was sent me eue<em>n<\/em>\u00a0now by s<em>i<\/em>r mychell hickes, w<em>i<\/em>th a message that it requyrd hast and w<em>i<\/em>thall came thes 4 rabitts w<em>hi<\/em>ch I send by this bearer a footma<em>n<\/em>, not being willing to truble a messenger vnless I had knowne the busines to be of importance, I truble yo<em>u<\/em>r lor<em>dshi<\/em>p w<em>i<\/em>th noe other matter nowe bycause I wryght w<em>i<\/em>th the hand whose arme hath had a vayne opened but an howre since \/<\/p>\n<p>Rutt<em>land<\/em>\u00a0howse\u00a04 Sept 1607<\/p>\n<p>Yo<em>u<\/em>r lor<em>dshi<\/em>ps most bonde<em>n<\/em>\u00a0ser<em>van<\/em>t<\/p>\n<p>Tho wilson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thomas Wilson to the Earl of Salisbury, CP 193\/147)<\/p>\n<p>More offerings of dead animals, this time for eating. But it&#8217;s the reference to blood-letting which is more interesting here. Wilson suffered from malaria (and possible other recurring illnesses). I remain amazed at the Early Modern propensity for drawing blood &#8211; surely at least someone noticed that patients lost rather than gained strength when leeched? (Thus I reveal my ignorance of Early Modern medicine. I&#8217;m sure my colleagues down the corridor could enlighten me &#8211; but this is digression enough.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, coming across nice little peeks into Early Modern life today: This inclosed for your lordship was sent me euen\u00a0now by sir mychell hickes, with a message that it requyrd hast and withall came thes 4 rabitts which I send by this bearer a footman, not being willing to truble a messenger vnless I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22,30,41],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","tag-cool-stuff","tag-early-modern-europe","tag-manuscripts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}