Comment on Causes of Death in London (1623)

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thanks. That’s helpful. And because I had to know:

  Among unfathomable “Diseases and Casualties,” Planet (or plannet) was “likely a shorthand for “planet-struck [because] Many medical practitioners believed the planets influenced health and sanity.” The label applied to any sudden illness or death, such as a heart attack or aneurysm, according to “15 Historic Diseases that Competed with Bubonic Plague.”

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• And009@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Kings evil?

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  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    www.britannica.com/science/kings-evil

    king’s evil,  scrofula (q.v.), or struma, a tuberculous swelling of the lymph glands, once popularly supposed to be curable by the touch of royalty.

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    • And009@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      curable by the touch of royalty

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• humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s “consumption”?

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  • Hazor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tuberculosis, a bacterial infection of the lungs.

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    • humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ha. Interesting. I thought it was excessive alcohol consumption at first

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        More that it consumes you, than you doing any consuming.

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