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Cause of death in 1872?
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Unknown | Report | 25 Jan 2005 23:18 |
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Mesenteric disease was commonish in the 1800s - I have an infant death in 1974 "tabes mesenterica". I think it was some form of tb, and seems to have been caused by contaminated food, in particular milk. This is tragically ironic in my case as the child's father (my gt grandad) was a milkman! Not sure when pasteurisation came in, but it is yet another thing we take for granted these days. In Victorian times food and drink were often carriers of disease and also deliberately adulterated. nell |
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Hawthorn | Report | 25 Jan 2005 21:53 |
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Thanks folks! It was a child of six months who died. |
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Devon Dweller | Report | 25 Jan 2005 21:53 |
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Ive just found it via the search bar and it says it's a narrowing of the arteries in the intestine. Sheila |
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Margaret | Report | 25 Jan 2005 21:51 |
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Tuberculosis of lymph glands inside the abdomen. An illness of children caused by drinking milk from cows infected with tuberculosis. Now uncommon as milk is pasteurised from the Archaic medical terms site http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm |
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Rosemary | Report | 25 Jan 2005 21:50 |
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Mesentery Definition: Fold in the abdominal lining that connects the intestine to the back of the abdominal wall; contains the arteries and veins that supply the intestines Exhaustion may have been caused by dehydration. |
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Hawthorn | Report | 25 Jan 2005 21:44 |
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Does anyone know what the following cause of death was (1872)? Mesenteric Disease, Exhustion |
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