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Bills of Mortality – weekly death certificates during the plague

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Most of these causes of death are unheard of these days.

  • Rising of the Lights = respiratory problems
  • Spotted feaver = typhus or meningitis
  • Planet = planetary alignment
  • Surfeit = too much food and drink

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