5/5/2023 0 Comments Phenomena sickness![]() ![]() Secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon is generally more complex and serious than primary Raynaud’s. It’s often so mild that the person never seeks medical attention. Primary Raynaud’s phenomenon is referred to as ‘idiopathic’ because there is no clear underlying cause. If you have a family member with primary Raynaud’s, you’re more at risk of developing it. It affects more women than men, generally under the age of 30. ![]() Primary Raynaud’s phenomenon (or Raynaud’s disease, or just Raynaud’s) is the most common form of Raynaud’s phenomenon. Circulation to the rest of the body is generally unaffected. When blood flow returns, the skin turns from blue to red and finally back to its usual colour. ![]() When this happens, you may experience stinging pain, tingling and numbness in your fingers or toes. Blood vessels in your extremities narrow, starving the tissues of blood and causing the characteristic blue or white colour change. With Raynaud’s phenomenon, this reaction is exaggerated. Your body protects your internal organs (your core) from heat loss in cold weather by redirecting the blood away from the extremities such as the fingers and toes. However, it can be a symptom of a more serious underlying illness, so it’s important to see your doctor if you experience it. ![]() Raynaud’s phenomenon doesn’t usually cause permanent damage. It can last from just a few minutes to many hours. Raynaud’s phenomenon can occur on its own (primary Raynaud’s phenomenon), or it can be linked to another disease or condition (secondary Raynaud’s phenomenon). It can happen in cold temperatures or when you’re in an emotionally stressful situation. In general, fingers and toes are affected, but other parts of your body such as your nose, lips and ears can be affected too. Images printed by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.Raynaud’s phenomenon is a condition that can cause discomfort as the blood supply to your extremities becomes reduced. If I have grown as a historian since coming to Cambridge, it is a result of the many challenges, questions, tips, comments, and encouragements I have received in both of these environments. The second has been the chance to be a part of the research communities of both the History Faculty and the History and Philosophy of Science Department. The first has been the immense richness and range of the sources to which historians have access, at both the University Library and the college libraries. Two aspects of the research environment at Cambridge have been especially rewarding. If the moon was passing through Aries, this was a moment in which the patient was especially vulnerable to the disease: it was ‘a point of frenesie’.Įarly medicine can seem outlandish at first glimpse, but my research this year has left me admiring the sophisticated and satisfying ways in which it wove diverse natural phenomena into an intelligible whole. Frenzy was caused by a hot, dry, burning inflammation in the brain. Like the sun with which it rose, it was a hot, dry, fiery sign. A study of one disease – now defunct, once very real – channels some of the turbulent intellectual, social, and cultural currents which transformed English society during this period.Īries was the first constellation to rise on the eastern horizon in the morning, and therefore exercised its influence on the foremost part of the body, the head. Frenzy offers a vantage point onto this landscape of flux and continuity, precisely because it was thought to affect almost every part of the sufferer: the brain, the body, the mind, the memory, the emotions, and the soul. By the close of the century, medical theory had remained relatively stable, but large swathes of common knowledge about human nature, the cosmos, and the supernatural had been dismantled or refashioned. I wanted to explore how understandings of the disease changed in England before, during and after the religious reformations of the sixteenth century. My thesis, I had decided, would look at ‘frenzy’, a disease state which was observed, discussed, suffered, and treated across Europe and the Middle East from antiquity long into the early modern era. When I began my PhD in Michaelmas 2017, I did not picture myself spending long afternoons reading horoscopes. ![]()
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