In early modern Scandinavia, the population’s sensitivity to disease and food supply shortages was great. Researchers have long been interested in the crises caused by these conditions, and the dominant causes of death have been well documented in Sweden since the late eighteenth century. But for the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, in the mortality regime preceding the initial stage of the demographic transition, our understanding of the infectious diseases is significantly limited. Through an analysis of causes of death and tithe levels, this article gives new insight regarding mortality rates, harvests and, above all, diseases in a parish located in a Swedish forested area during the mid- and late seventeenth century and first half of the eighteenth century. It presents new research about which diagnoses were most common, how often the more prevalent diseases of fevers, smallpox, and dysentery broke out, and the varying role of diseases on mortality rates during bad harvest years. The inhabitants in this parish presumably had a food supply buffer in their summer farm system, yet they remained vulnerable to bad harvests, and people in the area were just as susceptible to the common infectious diseases as the inhabitants in more tightly populated areas.

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现代早期瑞典的疾病

在现代早期的斯堪的纳维亚半岛，人们对疾病和食物供应短缺的敏感性很高。长期以来，研究人员一直对这些情况造成的危机感兴趣，自 18 世纪后期以来，瑞典就已详细记录了主要的死亡原因。但在 17 世纪和 18 世纪初期，在人口转变初始阶段之前的死亡率制度中，我们对传染病的了解非常有限。通过对死亡原因和十一奉献水平的分析，本文对 17 世纪中后期和 18 世纪上半叶位于瑞典森林地区的教区的死亡率、收成，尤其是疾病提供了新的见解。世纪。它提出了关于哪些诊断最常见的新研究，发烧、天花和痢疾等更普遍的疾病爆发的频率，以及在歉收年份疾病对死亡率的不同作用。这个教区的居民在他们的夏季农场系统中可能有食物供应缓冲，但他们仍然容易受到歉收的影响，而且该地区的人们与人口稠密地区的居民一样容易感染常见的传染病。