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So many dead children. I count a full one third of all deaths being babies and toddlers.
Planet
wtf were they smoking in London?
Kill’d by several accidents
When the universe is out to get you, but you survive the first accident
Rasputin syndrome
‘Planet’ goes hard.
This is just the extended discography of a gothic folk metal band?
So aggravating to not be able to sort by columns
Over-laid sounds like a good way to go.
Death by snu-snu!
I found a blog with a bunch of the definitions
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/03/09/Leading-Causes-of-Deaths-in-London-1632/
Thanks. I have so many questions about some of these. Cut of the stone, king’s evil, Planet, rising of the lights, teeth… I’m mostly curious what king’s evil is in this context. Gonna go look Edit: per the link it’s scrofula.
Thank you!
- I would choose wolves over cancer
- I suspect it means ear infections, but I choose to believe there was a big kettledrum accident that year
It meant tumor
Cancer, and Wolf.
“People called cancer the wolf, because it ‘ate up’ the person.” But this wasn’t just a linguistic quirk. The idea was actually translated into practice. “Some doctors would even apply raw meat to a cancerous ulcer, so that the wolf could feast on that for a while instead of ‘eating’ the patient.
I could see how people 400 years ago could think that makes sense.
“There are two wolves inside of you. I’m afraid it’s terminal.”
Classic comedy duo, well until cancer went through the divorce…
Made away themselves.
Ah British dancing around the point terms.
Just trying to avoid the YouTube censors
“Unalive” is the current dance. Euphemism isn’t new.
We’d still say “done away with themself”.
“My teeth are killing me” meant something pretty different back then.
“Teeth” actually meant “a child who’s still teething.” As with “chrisomes and infants,” so many little ones died that often they were categorized by age rather than a specific cause. Probably the only reason to specify “overlaid, and starved at nurse” would be to blame and punish the wet-nurse.
Planet ?!?
Scary:
“Dying of planet” was a term used in the 17th and 18th centuries to describe a sudden and severe illness or paralysis that was attributed to astrology and the influence of malevolent planets. People who died from “planet” exhibited symptoms similar to strokes, heart attacks, and aneurysms. At the time, people who picked up bodies for burial often knew little about the cause of death. Other causes of death listed in The Diseases, and Casualties this year being 1632 included “affrighted” and “made away themselves”. -Via Overview.
oh, cool - RFKs suggested DSM just dropped!
Cause: Suddenly.
aka heart attack.
Heart attack (not listed as such)
