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Causes of Death in London (1623) (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Cancer, and wolf

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wolf is an old name for Lupus, which of course is Latin for wolf.

[–] Dasus 5 points 1 day ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It took me a will to figure out it was not a joke...

[–] Professorozone 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And 10 at that!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Goddamn wolves, targeting cancer patients!

[–] Machinist 4 points 1 day ago

The term I grew up with for botfly larva was wolves. Cancer was often diagnosed when the tumors erupted through the skin. The crab.

So, probably a bad death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

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