What’s your most anticipated banger?
Weird that cancer and wolf are grouped together
Apparently, “wolf” was a metaphorical name for cancers which “devoured” flesh, as opposed to creating tumors, I guess.
I think it was lupus.
It’s never lupus.
Lupinus.
…but I mean that’s the band name “Cancer, and Wolf”
Seriously though, going over a reddit threat this was on, looks like “Wolf” referred to a fast-growing tumor that “ate you like a wolf” or somesuch.
https://old.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/f3c2hi/cause_of_deaths_in_london_in_1632/hkh904m/
I choose to interpret it literally
It’s definitely cooler that way, but also maybe in that regard “Cancer” means they were clawed to death by a giant crab?
why not both
I now imagine wolf cancer involves one of the two wolves inside you finally deciding to grow it’s own body
I would have died because teeth back then, for sure
It likely meant getting an abscess from an infected tooth which lead to sepsis. We’re really lucky to have modern medicine.
Oh, like that guy ICE killed recently.
Unfortunately, barbarism is alive and well in our world.
My votes go for:
- Prest to Death
- Fistula
- Livergrown
- Made Away With Themselves
- Murthered
I’m partial to Kings Evil myself
Rising of the Lights is cool
Bunch of anti-monarchists snuck into the records office 😄
I wonder what that actually was.
According to Wikipedia, it’s known in modern times as mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis.
The disease mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis, also known historically as scrofula and the king’s evil, involves a lymphadenitis of the cervical (neck) lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis as well as nontuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium marinum.
As for what lymphadenitis is?
Lymphadenopathy or adenopathy is a disease of the lymph nodes, in which they are abnormal in size or consistency. Lymphadenopathy of an inflammatory type (the most common type) is lymphadenitis.
The Wikipedia article for king’s disease has a picture if you’re curious, although it’s a bit gross.
Executions I presume.
Vomiting worms
“Suddenly” interests me the most. Not a condition or even a means, just a manner.
Like a catch-all for things they didn’t understand; heart attack, brain haemorrhage, things where someone’s fine one minute, and dead the next.
Afaik, sudden cardiac arrest is a cause of death still used today. In spanish we call it just sudden death.
Like the game mode.
“He just…croaked!”
my uncle died of “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” per the coroner’s report
That’s sad
yeah. poor guy. He was a brickie, played the French horn in the Sally Army Band, four kids, wife. Into lifting, whisky, big mustache. Real working class hero type.
Anyway, thanks for your regards.
Cancer (and wolf)
“Be careful, my relative tried chemo for the first time and died 3 days later to a wolf attack.”
The wolves can smell the chemo, it’s like marinade for them.
Hard to say which one finished them off. Better put both.
Seems more like band names to me… and according to the Encyclopedia Metallum, these are already used:
Stillborn, Aged, Apoplex, Bleeding, Flux, Sores, Burnt, Scalded, Burst, Rupture, Cancer, Wolf, Canker, Cold, Cough, Strangury, Consumption, Convulsion, Starved, Drowned, Executed, Falling Sickness, Fever, Fistula, Gangrene, Gout, Grief, King’s Evil, Lethargie, Spleen, Sciatica, Teeth, Thrush, and Worms
You’re doing important work here, thank you.
My thoughts are with the single person who was killed by piles. What a pain in the ass way to die.
Planet.
“Sir how did your wife pass?”
“Planet.”
“pardon?”
“Mars got her.”
“Mars?”
“yes, The Planet. slings bow over his back and gathers arrows Mars.”
they still use colic to describe severe idiopathic abdominal pain
Someone needs to post detailed explanation of all those things. I hope it doesn’t have to be me.
Found this: https://mediachomp.com/cause-of-deaths-in-london-in-1632/
My favorite: Thrush = yeast overgrowth / yeast infection of mouth (or genitals)
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Deleted by creator seems like a helluva way to go
I need to be part of that metal band
Shit I laughed aloud
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I like killed by several accidents.
Also teeth seems like a popular one.
“Cancer, and Wolf.”
What?…. What?
Cancer, and Wolf, refers to the old common term for cancer: wolf. It was thought to be a parasite that ate up the afflicted, like a wolf.
“Have you been bitten by or interacted with any wolves recently, Mr. Jacobs?”
“No, I’ve never actually even seen a wolf in real life.”
“I see, then we seem to have misdiagnosed you, it turns out that you have lymphoma and you’re a liar. Now take this cocaine and get out of my office.”
Sounds weird from today’s perspective, but actually refers to two notorious murderers that terrorized people at land and sea. You could protect yourself from either the cancer’s claw or the wolf’s tooth, but not both.
Fistula… I’m scared to search that…
Yeah, you’re right to feel that way.
You don’t have to. Here, I’ll tell you: It’s when your asshole sprouts another asshole.
It can also be when toothdecay spreads sideways through your mouth. That’d probably kill you a lot more readily back then
It’s a generic term for an open hole between two spaces where there should be a wall. The two spaces might include “outside”, but could be two internal spaces (e.g. between the intestine and abdominal cavity)
Yep, and even worse, one of the classic ones is rectovaginal. Fortunately modern medicine can fix it
The fact that infants dying is the highest by far just shows how cruel nature is without modern medicine and birthing practices
in college, i did a fair amount of number crunching on mortality statistics and the demographic transition. here’s some numbers i remember from the 1700s:
life expectancy: 40
life expectancy at age 20: 72
modern medicine has not added much to our longevity, we’ve just gotten rid of childhood mortality.I read somewhere that it’s actually an efficient method of nature … babies that won’t make it anyways die early so you waste fewer resources on them. it’s called fail fast
Funny, when you apply that to biology, I think it changes its name to “eugenics”.
I’ve spent more time than I care to admit reading Wikipedia entries on significant people from past centuries. Way too often their life story is full of disease and death. A dozen siblings. All of them suffer the same disease in childhood. Half of them don’t make it to adulthood. Mother dies during childbirth. Father struggles making money from their creative work, dies in a duel. Subject cared for by wealthy uncle. Is affected for the remainder of their life by the lingering effects of the childhood disease. Repeat for the next generation.
Tuberculosis (consumption) was another constant killer, coming in at second.
Apropos “Cut of the Stone”. I read a book about history of surgery and one chapter was about a guy who remove his own bladder stone. Back then people didn’t have great hygiene and urinary track infections were common. Those would cause bladder stone that would get worse and worse witch each infection. The stone would block the urethra entrance so you would feel you like really need to pee but once you stand up you wouldn’t be able to. This wasn’t very pleasant so people would try to remove the stones. Typical way was to go through the taint, open the bladder, remove the stone. There’s a lot of blood vessels there so survival chances were not great. Doctors refused to do it because patients would die to often and then family would blame them and they had enough shit to deal with already. So you had traveling bladder stone removers. They would do the surgery and by the time patient would die they would be on the road again.
So this one guy, a blacksmith, tried to get his stone removed twice or had two stones removed already, it’s not clear. Anyway, he didn’t like the traveling stoncutters. So he got a sharp knife, asked some guy to assist him and did the surgery himself.
The stones on that guy.
The stones in that guy.
Man you know it’s a barbaric procedure when Barbers and surgeons wouldn’t touch it
