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?

That's what I thought.

Really interesting! Falling sickness is epilepsy I think.

Yes I would think so and overlaid is infant suffocated by mum rolling on top. 🥺

Phew.

Well I am safe from dying of a beautiful face 🤣

Also from going outside in Italy.

Drawing room anguish might still be my downfall though. That’s where I tend to have most family arguments.

I love this sort of thing and part of my own job!

If you like this, read the books by Lindsey Fitzharris, fascinating medical history!

Possibly Lupus

Thanks, I was wondering how they would have rationalised something neurological like a stroke.

I understand the Pendle Witch trials was probably based on a man suffering a stroke and this being attributed to a curse due to the facial drooping, paralysis and loss of speech in a previously otherwise well adult.

I haven’t seen the sea in a very long time, should I be worried?

'Overlaid' is used in my area to mean 'over slept'. So wet nurse/mother over slept (drunk or just tired?) and the baby starved.

Definitely 😂 and personally I’m panicking about missing slippers!!

I remember researching an essay / trawling through old copies of the Scots Magazine from 1700s and being amazed at the number of people who died from mortification.

Gangrene apparently, not just incredibly embarrassed.

About "planet." Lots of things were attributed to the "influence of the planets" (which is where "influenza" comes from), or a "bad star" (dis-aster).

"Overlaid" would be a baby/small child being crushed or suffocated by a co-sleeping adult lying on top of them.

This list may well come from the same era as Hogarth's "gin alley" pic -- there was an awful lot of parental drunkenness.

I can totally relate to going outside in Italy at night. Especially if it was in Naples, every time you venture out you take your life into your own hands on those roads.

It’s scrofula, which I think is a presentation of tuberculosis. It was called King’s Evil because of the superstition that it could be cured by the monarch’s touch.

Yes, the woman with the toddler falling over the railings of the steps.

I haven’t thought about that drawing in years.

Prest to death must have been a horrible way to die. A form of torture and execution that involved heavy weights, usually stones, being piled onto a prone person.

Sometimes, they put a stone beneath the person first, so as the weigh on top of them increased, their back was broken. It was often used during questioning a suspect, and is where "to press someone for an answer" comes from.

'Lunatique' 😃

I find threads like this so interesting.

There was an episode of Whitechapel with this, wasn't quite prepared for that!

wolf probably means just that?

Chrisomes is within a month of baptism.

Lights should be a familiar term for anyone that enjoys their haggis.

Over-laid is smothered, by an adult rolling over them in bed.

Colick, stone and stranguary are all bladder obstructions, killing ten times more than complications from surgery for being cut for the stone. Remember this is before anaesthesia, accepting surgery was to accept some an intimate and painful procedure.

Teeth is an interesting one. It's basically any childhood illness/fever. They associated fever with teething in young children so it was thought that it was this that had killed them, although we now know it could have been lots of illnesses.

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So interesting! I thought "overlaid" as related to "lying in" as in labour, would have meant being in utero too long, so the babies come out all skinny 😔 which is why they induce now

Or @AlphaAlpha overlaid could be what you said 😃