Causes of death in London in 1632.
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Some definitions:
Affrighted = stress-induced heart attack
Ague = fever with periods of shivering and sweats (like malaria)
Apoplex = stroke and aneurysm, Meagrom = migraine or severe headache
Bit with a mad dog = rabies
Bloody flux, scouring and flux = dysentery
Cancer and wolf = malignant tumor
Childbed = infection after childbirth
Chrisomes, and infants = babies less than a month old
Colick, stone, and strangury = abdominal pain and painful urination
Consumption = tuberculosis
Cut of the stone = surgery to remove bladder or kidney stones
Dropsie and swelling = edema or swelling of a body part
Falling sickness = epilepsy and seizures
Flocks and small pox = smallpox
Fistula = abnormal connection of two body parts
French pox = syphilis
Jaundies = jaundice or yellowing of the skin due to liver failure
Jawfaln = “jaw fallen” or lockjaw, tetanus
Impostume = abscess
King’s evil = scrofula, where tuberculosis bacteria infects the lymph nodes in the neck
Livergrown = rickets, caused by vitamin D deficiency
Lunatique = mental illness
Made away themselves = suicide
Over-laid = infant smothered when a parent rolled onto them while sleeping, Starved at nurse = insufficient breast milk
Palsie = paralysis
Piles = hemorrhoids
Planet = “planet-struck” or a sudden and severe paralysis, thought to be due to the forces of particular planets
Pleurisie = swollen and inflamed tissue that surrounds the lungs
Purples = bruising, Spotted feaver = typhus
Quinsie = inflamed tonsils
Rising of the lights = severe coughing. “Lights” are “lungs,” named so because they are light-weight organs.
Surfet = overeating
Teeth = babies that have not yet gone through teething
Thrush = yeast infection
Tympany = cancer in the abdomen
Tissick = cough
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/03/09/Leading-Causes-of-Deaths-in-London-1632/