MEDICINE: Medical advancements are miraculous. Innovations as simple as cleanliness have saved countless lives.

Just imagine what the state of healthcare was like in 1632.

We found a page on the internet that listed “The Diseases and Casualties this year being 1632.”

While some were recognizable, like being bit by a dog, burned, fever, measles, plague and accidents, others were a mystery.

Ague, for example, is a fever, often specifically with malaria, that is characterized by recurring episodes of chills, fever and sweating. This list, from London, says 43 people died from it that year.

Sadly, the highest mortality rate was in infants, with 2,268 listed as “chrisomes,” or death of an infant less than a month old.

Five residents were lost to “cut of the stone,” or during or from surgery to remove bladder or kidney stones. Fever was listed as claiming 1,108. What a little Tylenol could have accomplished.

“King’s Evil” was listed as claiming 38. Now known as tuberculous lymphadenitis, it was a tuberculosis infection in the neck glands. The touch of a king was said to cure the disease.

Measles killed 80, cold and cough took 55, “flocks and smallpox” took 531. Flocks included other diseases, like chickenpox.

Some seemed mental health related, like grief, which took 11, or lethargie, to which two were lost.

Purples — widespread bruising — and spotted fever claimed 38. Planet — any very sudden severe illness or paralysis that was thought to result from the “influence” of a planet — claimed 13.

Rising of the lights took 98 lives. Confused? Lungs were referred to as lights as a light-weight organ. This is thought to mean severe coughing or a respiratory disease.

While the list is disturbing, the last entry got us — 27 were lost to worms.