The Distemper and the Witch Trials

The distemper fits in and gives us an idea what other disabilities would imply or mean to these puritans. And a distemper at this time would be more like the himoral balance s off. So he's just ill. There is the problems of conflacting sickness and disability. But that's why the idea of variability comes in. That one bodies are in these variable states, which can change. And you can go in and out of disability like this distemper kind of fits in.