By John Graunt of London
The diseases and casualties this year, being 1632:
(And you thought YOU had it bad…)
Abortive and Stillborn 44
Affrighted 1:eek:
Aged 628
Ague 43
Apoplex and Meagrom 17
Bit With a Mad Dog 1
Bleeding 3
Bloody Flux, Scowring 348
Brused, Issue, Sores and Ulcers 28
Burned and Scalded 5
Burst and Rupture 9
Cancer and Wolf 10
Canker 1
Childbed 171
Chrisomes and Infants 2268
Cold and Cough 55
Colick, Stone, and Strangury 56
Consumption 1797
Convulsion 241
Cut of the Stone 5
Dead in the Street, and Starved 6
Dropsy and Swelling 267
Drowned 34
Executed and Prest to Death 18
Falling Sickness 7
Fever 1108
Fistula 13
Flux and Smallpox 531
French Pox 12;)
Gangrene 5
Gout 4
Grief 11
Jaundies 43
Jawfain 8
Impostume 74
Killed by Several Accidents 46
King’s Evil 38
Lethargie 2
Livergrown 87
Lunatique 5
Made Away Themselves 15
Measles 80
Murthered 7
Over-laid and Starved at Nurse 7
Palsie 25
Piles 1
Plague 8
Planet 13
Pleurisie and Spleen 36
Purple and Spotted Fever 38
Quinsie 7
Rising of the Lights 98
Sciatica 1
Scurvy and Itch 9
Suddenly 62:confused:
Surfeit 86
Swine Pox 6
Teeth 470
Thrush and Sore Mouth 40
Tympany 13
Tissick 34
Vomiting 1
Worms 27