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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.
Teeth might be dental infections. Those can get nasty if untreated.
Thank you!
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.
We’d still say “done away with themself”.
“Unalive” is the current dance. Euphemism isn’t new.
Just trying to avoid the YouTube censors
Kill’d by several accidents
When the universe is out to get you, but you survive the first accident
Rasputin syndrome
Like this guy. The only thing that could kill him was himself apparently.
Ye olde’ Final Destination.
Is 2 several? Or 3? At which point do you come under the several category
“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.
So aggravating to not be able to sort by columns
Cancer, and wolf
And 10 at that!
Goddamn wolves, targeting cancer patients!
Wolf is an old name for Lupus, which of course is Latin for wolf.
It took me a will to figure out it was not a joke…
The term I grew up with for botfly larva was wolves. Cancer was often diagnosed when the tumors erupted through the skin. The crab.
So, probably a bad death.
The ultimate partnership
“Killed by several accidents.”
lol.
Hah! Gonna take more’n ONE accident to kill me, you bastards!!!
Kill’d
Kil’d
Kil’d to death 💀
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.
beware!
tf is King’s Evil?
Mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis
I’m gonna call it the other thing
- 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
oh, cool - RFKs suggested DSM just dropped!
Over-laid sounds like a good way to go.
Death by snu-snu!
Better than King’s Evil.
Don’t know why they felt the need to have it and executions separately
Cause: Suddenly.
aka heart attack.
Heart attack (not listed as such)
Chrisomes : died while under a month old.
Not sure, but I’m guessing part of the reason to specify the difference between “infants” and “Chrisomes” (baptized babies) might be to say where they’d be buried/where their souls would go.
“And in other news, the death figures were released today. Once again, the leading cause of death is: being a baby. Over the last year, 2,268 infants died naturally of babyness.”
Spawnkill
