Jorden, Edward

Jorden, Edward. A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother. London, 1603. 

Debus, Allen George. "Edward Jorden and the formation of the metals an iatro-chemical study of terrestrial phenomena." In Toward a history of geology, ed. C.J. Schneer, 100-121. Cambridge (MA) MIT Press, 1969. 

In the 1500s, the term hysteria was used to describe anxietylike afflictions. One of the first English accounts of hysteria was written by the physician Edward Jorden in 1603. Jorden believed that the women who were accused of witchcraft were actually afflicted with what he called hysterical illness. He was often called as an expert witness for the defense in witchcraft trials, but was not always persuasive. 

Sruarr Clark, The Scientific Status of Demonology , in Vickers (ed.), Occult and Scientific Mentalities 351-74 Clark, Demons and Disease Clark, Thinkingwith Demons, 233-50 Daston and Park, Wonders and the Order of Nature, esp. chs. 3, 4 MacDonald, Mystical Bedlam, 174 Michael MacDonald, Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London Edward Jorden and the Mary Glover Case (1991), p. xxxii Erik Midelfort, A History of Madness in Sixteenth-Century Germany (Stanford, Calif, 1992), 153-7 passim-, Webster, Paracelsus to Newton. 

Witchcraft and Hysteria in Elizabethan London Edward Jorden and the Mary... 

Hippocrates, Diseases of Women i, trans. Anne Hanson, Signs i (1975), 572 and Edward Jorden, A Briefe Discourse of a Disease Called the Suffocation of the Mother (London, 1603), Bi. On general medical beliefs about the female body in the early modern period, see Ian Maclean, The Renaissance Notion of Woman (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1980). 

At first wood and charcoal were used in smelting copper ores, but in 1632 Edward Jorden patented the use of coal, peat and turf, whilst four years later Sir Phillibert Vernatt patented the use of coal alone as fuel. These inventions stimulated the production of copper, especially in South Wales where coal was abundant. By the close of the eighteenth century Britain was the largest producer of copper in the world. This could not last for long. In 1830 the enormous Chilean deposits began to be developed the resources of Australia and North America rapidly followed suit the tables were now turned in earnest, the procedure of Henry vm reversed, and expert smelters from Britain now travelled to all parts of the world to show others how best to carry on. 

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