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Causes of Death in London, 1632


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Apparently, "cut of the stone"  actually means surgery conducted to relieve a person of gallstones, so these people died during surgery.  Here's some lovely reading regarding this:  "The procedure, described by Pepys as being "cut of the stone", was conducted without anaesthetics or antiseptics and involved restraining the patient with ropes and four strong men. The surgeon then made an incision along the perineum (between the scrotum and the anus), about three inches (8 cm) long and deep enough to cut into the bladder. The stone was removed through this opening with pincers from below, assisted, from above, by a tool inserted into the bladder through the penis."


We are all a bunch of wimps these days!

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3 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Apparently, "cut of the stone"  actually means surgery conducted to relieve a person of gallstones, so these people died during surgery.  Here's some lovely reading regarding this:  "The procedure, described by Pepys as being "cut of the stone", was conducted without anaesthetics or antiseptics and involved restraining the patient with ropes and four strong men. The surgeon then made an incision along the perineum (between the scrotum and the anus), about three inches (8 cm) long and deep enough to cut into the bladder. The stone was removed through this opening with pincers from below, assisted, from above, by a tool inserted into the bladder through the penis."


We are all a bunch of wimps these days!

This is fing horrible.

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3 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Apparently, "cut of the stone"  actually means surgery conducted to relieve a person of gallstones, so these people died during surgery.  Here's some lovely reading regarding this:  "The procedure, described by Pepys as being "cut of the stone", was conducted without anaesthetics or antiseptics and involved restraining the patient with ropes and four strong men. The surgeon then made an incision along the perineum (between the scrotum and the anus), about three inches (8 cm) long and deep enough to cut into the bladder. The stone was removed through this opening with pincers from below, assisted, from above, by a tool inserted into the bladder through the penis."
We are all a bunch of wimps these days!

7 minutes ago, Rip76 said:

This is fing horrible.

You’re gonna need more than four strong men to hold me down for that.  Pretty sure I’ll rip either my arm out of its socket, or somebody else’s, trying to get off that table.  

Pretty sure I could kill with my teeth as well if somebody got close enough in that situation.  Wait a minute...

3 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

Teeth - 470 deathe

 

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5 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Apparently, "cut of the stone"  actually means surgery conducted to relieve a person of gallstones, so these people died during surgery.  Here's some lovely reading regarding this:  "The procedure, described by Pepys as being "cut of the stone", was conducted without anaesthetics or antiseptics and involved restraining the patient with ropes and four strong men. The surgeon then made an incision along the perineum (between the scrotum and the anus), about three inches (8 cm) long and deep enough to cut into the bladder. The stone was removed through this opening with pincers from below, assisted, from above, by a tool inserted into the bladder through the penis."


We are all a bunch of wimps these days!

If they really mean gallstones, that also means they ripped up through the bladder, some large and small intestine, probably a chunk of stomach to yank a gallstone.

Perhaps that means kidney stone.

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36 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

If they really mean gallstones, that also means they ripped up through the bladder, some large and small intestine, probably a chunk of stomach to yank a gallstone.

Perhaps that means kidney stone.

Or testicles

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1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

There is no way that in a city of 200,000+ people, carrying clubs, knives, axes, and fucking swords, that only 7 were murthered in a year. They have to be counting regular stabbings and duels as something else.

Maybe they were the ancestors of the German soldiers shooting at the brother in 1917

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9 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Apparently, "cut of the stone"  actually means surgery conducted to relieve a person of gallstones, so these people died during surgery.  Here's some lovely reading regarding this:  "The procedure, described by Pepys as being "cut of the stone", was conducted without anaesthetics or antiseptics and involved restraining the patient with ropes and four strong men. The surgeon then made an incision along the perineum (between the scrotum and the anus), about three inches (8 cm) long and deep enough to cut into the bladder. The stone was removed through this opening with pincers from below, assisted, from above, by a tool inserted into the bladder through the penis."


We are all a bunch of wimps these days!

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