Died of teeth
Not really sure what I can add to that
Causes of Death in London (1623)
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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9point6@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Toddlers and Kindergartners basically, still teething. Of whatever cause, too many and too difficult to tell.
Agent641@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is just the extended discography of a black metal band?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Grief
So death by heartbreak is possible
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You see it a lot in elderly married couples. One dies right after the other.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That happened with our dogs. One of our dogs was crazy about the other, like she was his everything. She passed away, and he died in the middle of the night a few days later. They were both elderly, but he had seemed fine when we went to bed, other than being sad about losing his best friend.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Not just couples, Debbie Reynolds stepped out after Carrie Fisher died
Maturin@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Tag yourself. I’m “rising of the light”
dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 5 months ago
“Cancer, and Wolf” is that a gangster duo or something?
Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Nice! I’m afflicted by the astrological influence of a planet
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Planet must mean “fell from s high place”.
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How did someone die of sciatica?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Could be pain in the sciatic area that was actually caused by something else, like septic kidneys or an internal tumor
ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Just snapped right in half.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can speculate: Tumor or abscess pushing on the sciatic nerve? Horrible, unending back pain so they killed themselves? The cure being worse than the disease? I only know a bit about 17th century medicine, just that they lack a lot of medical technology and knowledge we take for granted. I mean they figured out hand washing in the 19th century.
beerclue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How many of these are easily treatable today?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Childbed for one, by washing hands before shoving them up in laboring women’s vaginas.
Pressing to death by not torturing people
You can prevent a lot of Chrisomes and Teeth deaths (infants and toddlers and kindergartners) by routine vaccinations.
Then of course there’s basic safety standards and antibiotics.
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
All the poxes, consumption, measles, etc are all standard vaccinations in any decent country.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 months ago
This will make a useful crib sheet for reading the causes of death in the US next year under Health Tsar RFK Jnr .
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
“Over laid” sounds like death by snu-snu.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
I volunteer!
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Bacteria Virus Cancer Heart Condition Trauma Malnutrition Suicide Kidney Disease Heart Disease Liver Disease Parasite
What else am I missing?
Mostly, they died from a lack of medical knowledge.
arty@feddit.org 5 months ago
Teeth
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
was thinking it’s still a bacterial infection that gets you, but you might have a point
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
So many dead children. I count a full one third of all deaths being babies and toddlers.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
It’s the reason why so many misleading statistics claim a much shorter lifespan in the past. If you survived childhood, and there wasn’t a plague around, or a war, you had good chances of reaching 60.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Life expectancy from birth is easily the most misleading statistic in the history of the social sciences because it is a measure of central tendency (aka an average, specifically, a median) of a property (age at death) that not only has no central tendency but actually has the opposite of a central tendency, with values concentrated at the low end (infant and child mortality) and the high end (old age deaths). In almost all societies ever measured, the life expectancy from birth age is usually the age at which a person is least likely to die.
MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 5 months ago
If you survived childhood, and there wasn’t a plague around, or a war
Lot of “ifs”
ruk_n_rul@monyet.cc 5 months ago
Consumption I think is not in the sense of eating, but in the sense of the body eating itself ie wasting away.
Sweetpeaches69@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought consumption was tuberculosis?
Semjaza@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
You would be correct.
AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 5 months ago
consumption is tuberculosis
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Red Dead 2 taught me something at least
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Tuberculosis
HoneyMustardGas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I didn’t know you could die of grief. Also what is ‘made away themselves’?
merc@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
It’s interesting how there’s a hint of science here, but so much non-science.
Like, trying to categorize things is a bit scientific. Trying to distinguish between similar but different things is a bit scientific. At the same time, so many of these causes of death are symptoms not causes. And, there are too many cases where they didn’t bother to try to find a cause, like the “Planet” cases or “Suddenly”. Also, almost all of the deaths are in children / infants, but in those cases they don’t try to figure out the cause of death, they just note the age.
enbyecho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lots of great ideas here!
Hestia@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Kil’d by several accidents
Not sure what that’s supposed to mean. Maybe some Final Destination shit where they die due to a series of random chance events?
RoabeArt@hexbear.net 5 months ago
Maybe something like this but fatal?
ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 5 months ago
They had a lot of HP so it took several accidents in a row
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 5 months ago
They got beaten up by an angry mob and there were mysteriously zero witnesses
azi@mander.xyz 5 months ago
I think ‘several’ just means that the people counted weren’t all killed in the same accident. No WorkSafe in those days so those accidents were probably shit like roofers falling off chapels and apprentice tanners mishandling chemicals.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 months ago
Cancer, and Wolf: 10
🤔
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Probably speaking of lupus. The only reason that somehow makes any sense 🤔
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
8 deaths from plague? Fake news, China plague.
AmericaDelendaEst@hexbear.net 5 months ago
“Cancer, and wolf”
lemmur@szmer.info 5 months ago
Best part
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is “murthered” an old word for murdered? If that’s the case I’m surprised there’s only one. TV and movies make London of that era look like life was cheap.
Eryn6844@beehaw.org 5 months ago
the King’s Evil?
Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Well the king is evil.
socsa@piefed.social 5 months ago
Well I didn't vote for 'im
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 5 months ago
I thought that was implied.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Scrofula
Siethron@lemmy.world 5 months ago
consumption? 1797 people were eaten?
Windswepthydra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Means tuberculosis.
CompassRed@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I think that means alcohol poisoning
WanakaTree@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Not sure if I’m being whooshed, but Consumption refers to Tuberculosis
blazeknave@lemmy.world 5 months ago
French pox… CK3 RP incoming
Shareni@programming.dev 5 months ago
Murthered
Out in the streets they call it merther
melissa_limoncella@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Prest is such an elegant way to spell pressed
observes_depths@aussie.zone 5 months ago
That many people were killed by infants! /s Wait, does chrisomes mean they died during baptism?
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Someone vomitted to death. I’d probably rather the cancer and wolf combo.
philpo@feddit.org 5 months ago
Very good chance to be actually cancer. A lot of cancers lead to extreme vomiting if untreated in their terminal phase.
Or cholera,etc…yeah, these,too.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think a lot of these could be grouped into a handful of now well known terminal illnesses.
But not the wolves.
Could well have been the opening phases of using canines to early detect illnesses. Just a few understandable methodology kinks in the early days.