17^th Century Death Roulette

Using real mortality records from
London’s Dreadful Visitation, see
what you might’ve died from in 1665

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(features mild strobing & grim deaths)

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Ague (fever with sweating & chills)
Bloody flux (bloody stools)
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Consumption
Convulsion
Cough
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Drowned at St. Mary Whitechappel
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
French-pox (syphilis)
Grief
Griping in the Guts
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Killed with a Cart at St. Giles Cripplegate
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Overlaid (accidentally suffocated as infant)
Quinsie (abscess in tonsils/throat)
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Sciatica
Scowring (diarrhoea)
Scurvy
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stopping of the stomach
Strangury (difficulty urinating)
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Ulcer
Winde

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Bleeding
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisoms (death in first month of life)
Collick
Consumption
Convulsion
Cough
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Drowned at St. Katharine’s by the Tower
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
Found dead in the Street in Stepney
Griping in the Guts
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Kingsevill (scrofula)
Mouldfallen (malformed skull or hydrocephaly)
Kild accidentally with a Carbine, at St. Michael Wood Street
Overlaid (accidentally suffocated as infant)
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Rupture
Scalded in a Brewers Mash, at St. Giles Cripplegate
Scurvy
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stopping of the stomach
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Ulcer
Vomiting
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Apoplexie (stroke, heart attack or aneurysm)
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisoms (death in first month of life)
Consumption
Convulsion
Cough
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
Found dead at St. Andrew Holborn
French-pox (syphilis)
Gowt
Griping in the Guts
Head-mould-shot (compressed skull or hydrocephaly)
Jaundies
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Kild at St. Clement Danes
Kingsevill (scrofula)
Livergrown
Overlaid (accidentally suffocated as infant)
Plurisie (inflammation of lung membranes)
Purples
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Scalded at St. Andrew Holborn
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Thrush
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Winde

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Apoplexie (stroke, heart attack or aneurysm)
Broke his neck by a fall aboard a Ship at St. Katherines
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Collick
Consumption
Convulsion
Cough
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Drowned in a pond at Stepney
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
French-pox (syphilis)
Gangrene
Griping in the Guts
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Killed at St. Andrew Holborn|Killed at St. Martin in the Fields|Killed by the kick of an Horse at St. Andrew Wardrobe|Killed by a fall from a Garret Window at St. Olaves in Southwark
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Livergrown
Measles
Murthered at St. Paul Covent Garden
Overlaid (accidentally suffocated as infant)
Quinsie (abscess in tonsils/throat)
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Scurvy
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Strangury (difficulty urinating)
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Ulcer
Vomiting
Winde
Wormes
Wounded

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Consumption
Convulsion
Cough
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
Gowt
Griping in the Guts
Jaundies
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Killed with a fall off a Horse at St. Martin in the fields
Overlaid (accidentally suffocated as infant)
Plague
Plurisie (inflammation of lung membranes)
Quinsie (abscess in tonsils/throat)
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Scowring (diarrhoea)
Scurvy
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Timpany (bloated digestive tract)
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Vomiting
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Bleeding
Cancer
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Consumption
Convulsion
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Drowned at St. Katharines Tower|Drowned at St. Magdalen Bermondsie
Executed
Feaver
Fistula
Flox and Small-pox
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
Found dead in the street at St. Peters in Cheapside
French-pox (syphilis)
Griping in the Guts
Jaundies
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Killd at St. Martins in the fields
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Livergrown
Palsie (paralysis, weakness or tremors)
Plague
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Scurvy
Shot with a Pistol at Saviours Southwark
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stopping of the stomach
Strangury (difficulty urinating)
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Thrush
Timpany (bloated digestive tract)
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Vomiting
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Apoplexie (stroke, heart attack or aneurysm)
Blasted
Bleeding
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Consumption
Convulsion
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Drowned in a Brewers well at Saviours Southwark
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
French-pox (syphilis)
Frighted
Gowt
Griping in the Guts
Jaundies
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Livergrown
Overlaid (accidentally suffocated as infant)
Palsie (paralysis, weakness or tremors)
Plague
Quinsie (abscess in tonsils/throat)
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Rupture
Scowring (diarrhoea)
Scurvy
Spleen
Spotted Feaver
Starved at Stepney
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Thrush
Timpany (bloated digestive tract)
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Ulcer
Vomiting
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Apoplexie (stroke, heart attack or aneurysm)
Bedridden
Cancer
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Collick
Consumption
Convulsion
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Drowned at St. Katharine’s by the Tower|Drowned at Lambeth
Feaver
Fistula
Flox and Small-pox
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
Found dead in the Street at St. Bartholomew the Less
Frighted
Gangrene
Gowt
Grief
Griping in the Guts
Jaundies
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Kild by fall down stairs at St. Thomas Apostle
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Lethargy
Murthered at Stepney
Palsie (paralysis, weakness or tremors)
Plague
Plurisie (inflammation of lung membranes)
Quinsie (abscess in tonsils/throat)
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Rupture
Sciatica
Scowring (diarrhoea)
Scurvy
Sore legge
Spotted Feaver and Purples
Starved at Nurse
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Strangury (difficulty urinating)
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Thrush
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Ulcer
Vomiting
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Ague (fever with sweating & chills)
Apoplexie (stroke, heart attack or aneurysm)
Bleeding
Burnt in his Bed by a Candle at St. Giles Cripplegate
Canker
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Consumption
Convulsion
Cough
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
Frighted
Gowt
Grief
Griping in the Guts
Jaundies
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Killed by a fall from the Belfrey at Alhallows the Great
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Lethargy
Palsie (paralysis, weakness or tremors)
Plague
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Scowring (diarrhoea)
Scurvy
Spleen
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Strangury (difficulty urinating)
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Thrush
Timpany (bloated digestive tract)
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Vomiting
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Bedridden
Bruised
Cancer
Canker
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Collick
Consumption
Convulsion
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Drowned in a Tub of Wash in a Brewhouse at St. Giles in the Fields
Feaver
French-pox (syphilis)
Frighted
Grief
Griping in the Guts
Jaundies
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Killed by a fall from a Scaffold at St. Martin in the Fields
Lethargy
Livergrown
Overlaid (accidentally suffocated as infant)
Palsie (paralysis, weakness or tremors)
Plague
Quinsie (abscess in tonsils/throat)
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Rupture
Scowring (diarrhoea)
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stopping of the stomach
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Ague (fever with sweating & chills)
Burnt (by accident) at St. Leonard Shoreditch
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Cold
Consumption
Convulsion
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Feaver
Flux (expulsion of bodily fluids)
Grief
Griping in the Guts
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Leprosie
Plague
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Sciatica
Scurvy
Small-Pox
Spotted Feaver
Starved in the White Lyon Prison at St. George in Southwark
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Suddenly
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Small-Pox
Teeth
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Winde
Wormes

Abortive (miscarriage)
Aged
Ague (fever with sweating & chills)
Bruised
Cancer
Calenture (tropical fever akin to heat stroke)
Childbed (due to giving birth)
Chrisomes (death in first month of life)
Collick
Consumption
Convulsion
Dropsie (swelling due to fluid retention)
Feaver
Flox and Small-pox
French-pox (syphilis)
Frighted
Grief
Griping in the Guts
Imposthume (swelling or abscess)
Infants (death in infancy)
Kingsevil (scrofula)
Palsie (paralysis, weakness or tremors)
Plague
Rickets
Rising of the Lights
Scurvy
Spotted Feaver
Stilborn
Stone
Stopping of the stomach
Strangury (difficulty urinating)
Surfeit (overeating to the point of vomiting)
Teeth
Timpany (bloated digestive tract)
Tissick (coughing & wheezing)
Winde
Wormes

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