Random Blah

Properly, I suppose, the Epistaxis Saga should be considered Random Blah rather than General Chit-Chat. So Here is a new topic for things of a similarly disgusting or graphic nature.

This is a sample of the London Mortality Bill, which used to be a weekly column in all the fashionable London newspapers saying how many people died of what. Fascinating I know. Mind the 's' and 'f', they look the same.


Abortive = 4,
Aged = 45,
Bleeding = 1,
Broken Legge = 1,
Broke her scull by a fall in the street at St Mary VVoolechurche = 1,
Childbed = 28,
Crifomes = 9,
Confumption = 126,
Convulfion = 89,
Cough = 1,
Dropfie = 53,
Feaver = 348,
Flox and Smallpox = 11,
Flux = 1,
Frighted = 2,
Gowt = 1,
Grief = 3,
Gripping in the Guts = 17,
Head-mould-foot = 1,
Jaundies = 7,
Impofthume = 8,
Infants = 12,
Kingfevil = 4,
Lethargy = 1,
Livergrown = 1,
Meagcome = 1,
Palfie = 1,
Plague = 4237,
Purples = 2,
Quinfie = 5,
Rickets = 23,
Rifing of the Lights = 18,
Rupture = 1,
Scurvy = 3,
Shingles = 1,
Spotted Feaver = 166,
Stilborn = 4,
Stone = 2,
Stopping of the Stomach = 17,
Stangury = 3,
Suddenly = 2,
Surfeit = 74,
Teeth = 111,
Thrufh = 6,
Tiffick = 9,
Ulcer = 1,
Vomiting = 10,
Winde = 4,
Wormes = 20

impofthume???
I recently wrote an ABBC diary for my friend cos he was asking me about it, so here's an extract from the diary...

Casey/Yasmin have never had blood-noses! (epistaxis) Anyway so Casey was talking with someone about cauterising your nose, and I’ve had that done quite a few times…they were shocked…I was shocked she hadn’t had a blood nose…So when I woke up on Friday my health was worse off than the night before (I got very sick from the weekend; sore throat, ulcers, bad nose, headaches, etc. etc.) but I figured I'd get over it and I was thinking about blood-noses. You know how blood-noses sort of come in...sets? As in if you get one, you keep getting them for the next week or two? So I was thinking about that in the morning.At 8.08 I took a picture with the clock in our kitchen, but our clock is slightly fast. A few minutes later I got a blood nose, so I think I might have gotten the blood nose at EXACTLY 8.08 (08/08/08)! After about half an hour it was clear this was a pretty huge blood nose, even by my standards. (I normally have big blood noses, as you may remember…or not) The blood started going down my throat, which is annoying because it hurts to swallow, but not entirely unusual. But then it started...clotting...or mixing with mucous or something, so basically I couldn't swallow it, and my breathing was suddenly cut by 50%. Since I couldn’t swallow it, the only thing I could do was…cough up blood. Which is weird...because I didn't think I’d be ‘coughing up blood’ until much later in my life if I was wounded or something. Then right lens of my glasses started fogging up. I thought the blood from my nose must be pretty hot for that to happen. I took my glasses off, but my right eye was blurry. I asked dad what was happening, and he said blood was coming out of my eyes. Apparently blood was coming out of my tear ducts and the bottom of the socket of my eye. So that was the crying blood incident. My eye just went foggy, and yeah. The world didn’t turn red or anything. So now here I am sitting there holding a tissue to my nose, coughing up blood and wiping blood from my eyes every few minutes. I didn’t get any pictures. I think once I might have gotten a very slight halo tinge of sickly yellow/green/red in my right eye before it went blurry, but otherwise most of the time tears of blood were coming out my eye didn’t hurt or do anything other than go blurry. After a while the bottom of my eye started to sting though. My blood nose didn’t stop for about 3 hours I think, but luckily my blood eye stopped a bit before that. Note that my eye wasn’t bleeding, my eye was fine, just that so much blood was coming from my nose it went down and up, down into my throat and up out of my eyes.

Eeeurrrgghh.

I agree, 'impofthume' is a lovely one eh. Try googling "Rising of the Lights" (some lung complaint) or "King's Evil" (scrofula) for a few more tidbits. This particular list was from a week in 1665, hence the high Plague figure.

Crying blood...sounds...some combination of exciting and scary
Never had a blood nose me'self!
Wonder if any of those 'causes of death' would transalate to...
to... ANENCEPHALY!!

Which reminds me, to remind everyone (everyone who prides themselves on being undisgustingify'able), to google[image] "anencephaly"

And Guys!! check this out. It seems to be cutting off the URL link so you'll have to copy/paste the entire URL below

www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23419627-details/Toddler+with+eight+limbs+branded+'reincarnation+of+Hindu+god'+to+undergo+life-saving+operation/article.do

I imagine they [the demon-babies with anencephaly] would come under infants. I just saw the image of it. AAARRGGHHH it looks like E.T.

yes lol crying blood's exciting, and curse for you for not having had a blood nose wen i've had hundreds
i looked up anencephaly wen i got bak last week.
grr....

Hey guys,
While on tour in the labs on Monday it seems the second group (EG Yasmin) didn't get to see the rat guillotine, so I found a picture of it on the internet and am posting it here...

lol yep who wouldn't want to see the rat guillotine?
well I told my friends about brain bee and they seemed pretty interested right up until i mentioned the guillotine......they now seem to consider my passion for brain research somewhat creepy and sadistic.......
which reminds me.....we actually did a rat dissection on monday!!!
it was awesome......we took out the ailmentary canal and measured it.......it was 140cm! thats a lot of intestine......
its too bad we couldn't look at the brain

um!! you said you watch horror movies...how does a rat guillotine compare with that at all...xD
should we bring this forum bak to life? maybe after exams...mine r week 5

Yes let's.

The spherical blackboard is going well. It's plastered and half-painted now

hmm..the graphics on this site seem to have screwed up a bit..prhaps someone could fix that...
i was kinda serious bout 'after exams'. i can't really come on till after exams soz. btw, my signature picture thing is supposd to change, but that doens't seem to be working...

Hey well since my last post, firstly I've gotten rid of the picture in my siggy, XD, secondly Stephen good job on the colour scheme for this site
If anyone comes back to this site, would you like to post instances where you've continued to think on your time in the competition or have met up with some alumni or basically brains have remained a part of your life?
I'll start by saying I met up with Yasmin/Casey in Goldcoast on the 3/4th of jan this year, and have seen jayson come on msn many times
In terms of brain stuff, after the comp i decided i'd like to be a neurosurgeon where previously I only knew I wanted to be a doctor. While i may choose to specialise into a different area later on, that is my current aim, and entirely due to the competition. I wish everyone good luck with all their studies, and good luck to Jayson/Stephen for the IBBC finals!

Hi Hayden!

Thanks! I thought it would look brain-coloured this way .

Brains have indeed become a central part of my life, as I'm sure they have for all of you... do you now find yourselves able to diagnose people with various conditions? E.g. one of my friends has a grandmother who exhibits dysmetria. It sounded like something cerebellar, so I asked him if she had a wide-based gait, and sure enough, she did! Elementary, my dear Watson.

No idea what the future will hold. But hey, I get to go to Germany in July! For the Maths Olympiad! So who knows where that will lead?