Danger clearly lurked around every corner in London back in the 1600s with some bizarre causes of death from 1632 discovered - leaving people desperate to know more.
An historic medical passage has been unearthed and everyone is asking the same important questions.
Nearly 400 years ago, 'The King's Evil' was responsible for 38 death - and 'Cancer and Wolf' also took plenty of victims.
King's Evil wasn't the result of plotting bad things against royals, it in fact refers to scrofula, a form of pulmonary tuberculosis. There were plenty of other quirky causes and 'Cut of the Stone' was to blame for many lost lives all those years ago.
Historian of medicine and science Anna Maerker explained that it wasn't a sharp rock at fault.
“Cutting the stone would be an operation to remove bladder stones,” she told MyLondon. “Unpleasant and risky business in a time before anaesthesia and antisepsis.”
According to the document, 'Lethargy' took two lives - and we're all wondering if they'd just had enough.
The historian went on: “Disease categories from the seventeenth century don't always map onto modern categories very neatly.
“Labels like ‘apoplexy’ or ‘fever’ would now be considered symptoms rather than diseases."
But also included was 'planets' - which is a bit of a head-scratcher.
“As far as I can tell it's about astrological constellations,” Anna added. “The influence of the stars and planets was considered a potential cause of disease.”
'Teeth' killed off hundreds of Londoners, and 'suddenly' also was deadly back then, we'll have you know.
There was plenty of discussion on twitter after the passage found its way onto social media.
One wrote: "I'm sorry sir, you have stage 4 'suddenly'."
Another joked: "Should we have a separate section for cancer? No, just cancer and wolf. But.... CANCER AND WOLF I HAVE SPOKEN!"
Seven causes of death were caused by the patient being “Over-laid”, which means an infant died after being unintentionally smothered.
One lost their life and being 'bit by a mad dog'.
Another big killer was grief, as 11 passed away - piles, meanwhile, took one poor person, it was written.
