List of causes of Death from 1632

[Peteryougit]

I find this sort of thing really interesting. I’m sorry, I don’t have a direct link so I don’t know which region it’s from - l hope the photo attached okay.

”Rising of the lights” - any ideas?

Are you Irish @Endwalker ? It’s a loaded descriptor.

So if you wanted to refer specifically to the southern part of the Republic of Ireland, how would you say it?

Cork?

Limerick is the Midwest.

in his late 70’s from Southern Ireland

The south of Ireland would be preferable, but I'm sure the pp didn't mean to offend; slip of the keyboard, wrong choice of words?

This. Seriously... some of you..

I'll admit that I thought this must be wrong when I first read it.

So I spoke to an anesthetist I know and he confirmed it. 😮He said children under about 12 months old were routinely not anesthetised in the past, and that only changed when there was evidence from, I think, activity in the brain showing that they felt pain and using anesthetics improved the outcomes of operations. He wasn't clear about when it changed - round our area it was about 20 - 40 years ago.

It seems astonishing, but as someone whose DP has flatlined on multiple occasions on the operating table it's easy to forget that being anesthetised can itself be dangerous, perhaps particularly so for very young children.

They believed the same of people with down syndrome as well.

If I recall correctly gynaecological experiments used to be carried out on enslaved women without anaesthetic, and even today there are studies showing drs taking pain less seriously in black women because there is an embedded belief of them having higher pain tolerance (rooted in the beliefs of the 19th century). I have only ever read about it in relation to the US so I don't know whether similar studies have been carried out in the UK.