List of causes of Death from 1632

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I find this sort of thing really interesting. I’m sorry, I don’t have a direct link so I don’t know which region it’s from - l hope the photo attached okay.

”Rising of the lights” - any ideas?

And overlaid would be rolling on baby when cosleeping

Yes that’s it. Dh is away with work and sent me a screen shot, I was trying to get clarification of where he found it.

King's Evil is scrofula, a type of tuberculosis.
It was believed that the touch of a King could cure it. Some Monarchs held complicated ceremonies for the laying on of hands for sufferers, who came in their hundreds. Charles II did this IIRC.

This is babies dying with wet nurses who took on too many to look after properly 😢

Apparently it was a sudden death attributed to astrology……. Scorpio rising and Taurus in a bad mood or something! You would have thought there were enough real illnesses without making up imaginary ones.

Kings Evil was scrofula (TB in the glands of the neck --- but of course not everyone with swollen neck glands in those days would have had TB, so it's a catch all term for something that causes long term swelling of these glands and then kills you).

Cut of the Stone probably refers to one of the very few major operations which was carried out in those days cutting through the perineum to get into the bladder to take out a bladderstone. Without anaesthetic. Samuel Pepys went through this ---

What a time to be alive! I didn't know you could die of worms

French Pox- syphilis? (I've nothing against the French but they did from what I've read).

Struck me too.

fascinating, OP, thanks for sharing!

Could be the work they did. Kept injuring themselves due to dangerous working conditions until they died. Or someone who kept having falls.

Thrush was another one

Everyday is a school day!

Not sure where my mind was going with 'overlaid'....

I'm mainly responding so I can come back to it when I have access to my PC rather than my phone (larger screen) but whilst it is ATAT this could be a useful list for those with Stupid Skiving Excuses!

"Teeth" is for infants who died around the time they'd normally be teething of some sort of virus or infection that was attributed to teething rather than the actual (unknown) cause. Sort of like now when infants get a fever from some bug or other but parents attribute it to teething.

"Suddenly" would cover heart attacks and strokes.

Kill'd by several accidents?

I mean it's bad enough been killed by one accident, but yo be killed by several, now that's bloody unlucky!

Yes Sam Pepys had the operation for removal of the stone. He was so relieved and grateful to survive the ordeal, that on the anniversary of his operation he would hold a celebratory dinner.

I wonder if people dying of "thrush" could have had diabetes, recurrent thrush can be a symptom.

Teeth alone is a lesson for these days - probably inflammation. Still buggers up the heart.

Of course!

Oh gosh, that’s sad.

I took it to mean actual tooth infections leading to sepsis for example.

The largest number being infants is obviously so sad, but to think teeth also meant babies.

Thank fuck for modern medicine, eh?

“Teeth” would have referred to dental infections/abscesses that spread. No dentist to take the rotten tooth out and no antibiotics meant it was a fairly common way to go.

”Affrighted” amuses me, I imagine someone lept out from behind a bush and yelled “Boo!”

Interesting that they acknowledged “grief” as a cause of death.

I’d hold a bloody parade after going though that!

Teeth and babies teething were separate. Teeth was abscess in children nd adults.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10686905/

Have a look at this list; Things women in literature have died from, it’s brilliant!

I'm sure I read in a book (maybe Lucy Worsley or Ruth Goodman) that wolf is lupus?