@Marshalist - i to udowadnia, że warto przestrzegać zasad BHP, szczepić się i pić czystą wodę oraz dbać o zęby.

"For anyone who’s interested in a definition for some of the more weird sounding ones:

- Ague = feverish illness, often malaria

- Apoplex = stroke (the rupture or clogging of a blood vessel in the brain), paralysis resulting from a stroke - sometimes also refers to other spontaneous causes of internal bleeding like burst aneurysms

- Meagrom = migraine, severe headache - this obvious symptom could be deadly if it originated from things like a brain tumor, bleeding within the brain / stroke, concussion / TBI / swelling within the brain...

- Bloody flux, scowring, flux = dysentery / bloody diarrhea or otherwise severe diarrhea, often from diseases like cholera

- Childbed = death during or shortly after giving birth

- Chrisomes = death of unbaptised infant / death of infant less than a month old

- Colick, stone, and strangury = severe abdominal pain, bladder / kidney stones, rupture in abdomen (appendicitis, bladder rupture, etc)

- Consumption = tuberculosis

- Cut of the stone = died during/from the surgery to cut out bladder / kidney stones

- Dropsie and swelling = edema, swelling of a body part

- Falling sickness = epilepsy, seizures

- Flocks and small pox = smallpox, other diseases causing pustules over the body like cowpox and chickenpox

- French pox = syphilis

- Jaundies = jaundice, yellowing of the skin and eyes often a symptom of liver failure

- Jawfain = "jaw fallen" / lockjaw, often tetanus

- Impostume = abscess, a deep infection full of pus

- Killed by several accidents = essentially the “miscellaneous accident" category. For example one person got kicked by horse. Three fell off a roof. Two got ran over in the street. Just a mix of random accidents that year, total of 46 deaths but where the specifics weren't worth listing.

- King's Evil = scrofula, aka tuberculosis infection of the neck glands. The touch of a king was said to cure this disease.

- Lethargie = depression?

- Livergrown = unknown, some think it might have been another term for rickets or it could be from diseases which resulted in a swollen, enlarged liver - things like chronic alcoholism, hepatitis, or congestive heart failure.

- Made away themselves = suicide

- Murthered = murdered

- Over-laid = infant that died after being unintentionally smothered / parent rolled onto them while sleeping

- Starved at nurse = insufficient breast milk, or the child had a disease that caused them to "fail to thrive" / not gain weight and die even though being fed

- Palsie = palsy, paralysis or other muscle difficulties

- Piles = hemorrhoids

- Planet = aka planet-struck, any very sudden severe illness or paralysis that was thought to result from the "influence" of a planet. Like how the moon (luna) was once thought to cause insanity (creating lunatics).

- Pleurisie = swollen, inflamed pleura - the membranous tissue surrounding the lungs

- Purples = bruising, especially wide-spread - many causes

- Spotted feaver = typhus or meningitis

- Quinsie = tonsillitis / inflamed tonsils, especially when abscessed and obstructing breathing

- Rising of the lights = as an organ meat, lungs are often called "lights" because they are very light-weight organs. Nobody's sure about what exactly "rising of the lights" was, but it may be related to severe coughing and the perception that during a cough the lungs would rise up in the chest. Perhaps croup, a respiratory disease causing a severe 'barking' cough.

- Suddenly = unknown sudden death

- Surfet = overeating / gluttony, vomiting from overeating. Aside from direct "death from overeating" it may have been a grouping for many types of death that often went along with being overweight - death from untreated diabetes, cushing's disease, heart failure, etc. "Surfet" also might have been the cause-of-death given if someone over drank, passed out, and died from aspirating their own vomit.

- Teeth = dental infection leading to death

- Thrush = yeast overgrowth / yeast infection of mouth (or genitals)

- Tympany = either abdominal tumor growth, or other bloating / distension of the abdomen - especially when air or gas is caught within the abdomen or intestines, causing a hollow sound when thumped

- Tissick = cough, can also refer to the coughing and wasting away of tuberculosis"

Bardzo ciekawe i pouczające.

@Marshalist nawet jedna osoba zarzygała się na śmierć xD

Więcej osób na grypę niż na small pox :p wiem, ze to nie lata epidemii ale grypsko j⁎⁎ie nas już tyle lat ze Jezusie