Ways of Dying in 1665

I've just pulled another piece of random information out of my overcrowded with crap brain...
I saw somewhere on tv, that the ancient Egyptians used crocodile dung as a contraceptive. And modern research shows that it actually contains hormones that could have actually made it effective!
Off to google...

Yikes, I came down to the thread end to post and you're talking about steam-powered vibrators?

Well just to put in my pennorth, I think Lethargy must mean hypothyroid, where someone has no energy as the thyroid packs up, followed by just about everything else.

(Going to read the rest of the thread later, when I'm not going to get funny looks for laughing)

Halfway through thread and I am in LOVE.

Best. Thread. Ever.

Um...it wouldn't be very discreet would it? I imagine it chuffing and whistling away.

EEK, sorry HeartsTrumpDiamonds. I should have put a warning on.

Although they are 'art' and 'history' right

One of my modules at university involved a lecture on that Greek pot and other similar pieces.

Funnily enough the lecture theatre was packed.

Saggy - well they sound happier endings

Thanks, R2, I've decided to rename my Rabbit "Oblisbos" in hopes it will seem less alarming with a historical theme

Just for you, Tunip.

so.... somebody actually invented a steam-powered vibrator

Holy crap R2 I just opened those at WORK!

Julia

17th Century
Throughout history
Ancient Greece

Carrots look a bit unsophisticated after that lot

Caz, I've done a bit of searching, there are lots of different theories about what happened to her. One is that she ended up marrying a stable hand for love and dying in poverty. Another that she was a lady in waiting to queen Elizabeth.

I'm impressed by the idea that tampon use has any influence on hymen breakage. I know they didn't have Ann Summers or batteries, but I'm sure they could improvise with root vegetables

www.elizabethfiles.com/mary-seymour-daughter-of-catherine-parr-and-thomas-seymour/5589/

just found this.

They think she died at about 2 years old

and then Thomas seymour was beheaded so she was left an orphan

yes she had a hard life, poor lady.

And also her daughter, Mary Seymour. Nobody knows what happened to her.

I always felt sorry for Catherine Parr. She was forced to marry Henry when he was old and smelly and horrible, he wasn't her first aged husband, she was in love with Thomas Seymour, she was nearly arrested, for heresy, then when H8 died and she finally got to marry the man she loved, he was an unfaithful little shit, and she died in childbirth!

Hmm, must have got confused with other plots, can't find anything to do with Catherine of Aragon - must have made that one up .

I've also just bought some Connie Willis books, they are fantastic! Am waiting for Doomsday to arrive.

well yes, that too - but I reckon sheer practicality won out!

I think it was thought to be indecent for them to have to ride with their legs apart

Good point megapixel! Forgot about that!
Although I don't think that's why the side-saddle was introduced (even though you may have been saying that tongue in cheek ); women weren't supposed to ride horses independently prior to the 14th C, they just rode behind their Man. The side-saddle for ladies to ride independently was developed after that, apparently. And I assume it was a sidesaddle initially because of the size and weight of their skirts (but it also meant they still couldn't control their own horse terribly well so had to be led along at a walk, no doubt by a man - couldn't have them riding off on their own, chattels that they were!)

As a devout Catholic Catherine would never have recognised her divorce, and she believed that her marriage to Henry was lawful in the eyes of the church; so it's not surprising that she held on to that belief. Wasn't there some Catholic plot after the dissolution of the monasteries to liberate Queen Catherine and do away with Henry? Or have I just imagined that?

Thumb maybe that's why women rode side-saddle?

I quite like Catherine of Aragon for her defiance in not recognising H8's marriage to AB, even after she was seperated from Mary and under house arrest. Esp her last letter to him, addressing him as her husband and signing off as Catherine, Queen of England . Must have taken some guts in that time.