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Insanity and Mental Illness=This project will cover all those poor people recorded on censuses as Insane or those who we know suffered some mental illness which historically was sadly less well understood than now.Many were institutionalized for convenience, others for what we would now call a "nervous breakdown" but the institutions practices, and being locked away often caused the person neve...
If the person died of Starvation, please add the profile to that project also.===* See: Starvation Anorexia mirabilis literally means "miraculous lack of appetite". It refers almost exclusively to women and girls of the Middle Ages who would starve themselves, sometimes to the point of death, in the name of God. The phenomenon is also known by the name inedia prodigiosa ("prodigious fasting") A...