London Deaths and Casualties - 1632 AD

The lights are the insides of an animal so rising of the lights could like hysteria, or hysteria is the only specific instance that has survived t the modern world

The definition on the website is "Rising Of The Lights: Generally considered to be croup. However, the Oxford English Dictionary defines it as hysteria and John Graunt (2) suggests that it may be an inflammation of the liver, similar to livergrown (q.v.)."
 
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