What’s your most anticipated banger?
Apropos “Cut of the Stone”. I read a book about history of surgery and one chapter was about a guy who remove his own bladder stone. Back then people didn’t have great hygiene and urinary track infections were common. Those would cause bladder stone that would get worse and worse witch each infection. The stone would block the urethra entrance so you would feel you like really need to pee but once you stand up you wouldn’t be able to. This wasn’t very pleasant so people would try to remove the stones. Typical way was to go through the taint, open the bladder, remove the stone. There’s a lot of blood vessels there so survival chances were not great. Doctors refused to do it because patients would die to often and then family would blame them and they had enough shit to deal with already. So you had traveling bladder stone removers. They would do the surgery and by the time patient would die they would be on the road again.
So this one guy, a blacksmith, tried to get his stone removed twice or had two stones removed already, it’s not clear. Anyway, he didn’t like the traveling stoncutters. So he got a sharp knife, asked some guy to assist him and did the surgery himself.
The stones on that guy.
The stones in that guy.
Death by musical instrument needed its own category.
Also killed by several accidents - a series of unfortunate events.
Also those darn evil kings!
And lights are dangerous when rising.
Shoutout to QI doing a bit on this
My thoughts are with the single person who was killed by piles. What a pain in the ass way to die.
Someone needs to post detailed explanation of all those things. I hope it doesn’t have to be me.
Seems more like band names to me… and according to the Encyclopedia Metallum, these are already used:
Stillborn, Aged, Apoplex, Bleeding, Flux, Sores, Burnt, Scalded, Burst, Rupture, Cancer, Wolf, Canker, Cold, Cough, Strangury, Consumption, Convulsion, Starved, Drowned, Executed, Falling Sickness, Fever, Fistula, Gangrene, Gout, Grief, King’s Evil, Lethargie, Spleen, Sciatica, Teeth, Thrush, and Worms
You’re doing important work here, thank you.
“Suddenly” interests me the most. Not a condition or even a means, just a manner.
Like a catch-all for things they didn’t understand; heart attack, brain haemorrhage, things where someone’s fine one minute, and dead the next.
Afaik, sudden cardiac arrest is a cause of death still used today. In spanish we call it just sudden death.
Like the game mode.
“He just…croaked!”
my uncle died of “Sudden Adult Death Syndrome” per the coroner’s report
That’s sad
I am going to die of Planet after I forget my parachute while sky diving.
How’d crackhappy die? Oh you know, PLANET.
That planet appeared really suddenly!
“Doctor why are you head banging?”
Planet.
“Sir how did your wife pass?”
“Planet.”
“pardon?”
“Mars got her.”
“Mars?”
“yes, The Planet. slings bow over his back and gathers arrows Mars.”
Anal arthritis? Intestinal fracture? I think two vaguely medical terms jammed together make the best band/song names for this entertaining genre of music.
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Great name for a deathcore band.
Fistula… I’m scared to search that…
You don’t have to. Here, I’ll tell you: It’s when your asshole sprouts another asshole.
It can also be when toothdecay spreads sideways through your mouth. That’d probably kill you a lot more readily back then
It’s a generic term for an open hole between two spaces where there should be a wall. The two spaces might include “outside”, but could be two internal spaces (e.g. between the intestine and abdominal cavity)
Yep, and even worse, one of the classic ones is rectovaginal. Fortunately modern medicine can fix it
Yeah, you’re right to feel that way.
Worms :(
I would have died because teeth back then, for sure
It likely meant getting an abscess from an infected tooth which lead to sepsis. We’re really lucky to have modern medicine.
Oh, like that guy ICE killed recently.
Unfortunately, barbarism is alive and well in our world.
