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| SeaCopRimmer |
Ancient Medical TermsFound this website whilst meandering and it is quite good if you've got an old death certificate and the cause of death is 'strange' :http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm My sister's first baby died, in 1952, of marasmus! log onto the above site and it will tell you what the word means 
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| Jane |
That's an interesting site. Now I shall be digging out any death certificates I have and see exactly what they mean
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| Dotty |
Very interesting...Thanks Jane. I remember being shocked to read my mother's death described as a cerebral accident...stroke.TTFN Dotty :-| |
| Jane |
Seems this site no longer exists 
I wanted to see what - extravasation of urine meant....a great uncle died of this during the first war. I tried it on Google - The effects of extravasated urine are dramatic. The combination of urine and infection produces severe oedema of a patient's scrotum and abdominal wall. If this is not treated, the skin over his scrotum, penis, and anterior abdominal wall may slough. He may be very ill, toxic, febrile, dehydrated, anaemic, or uraemic, or all of these things. If his renal function is impaired, as it often is after a long standing stricture, extravasation may kill him. How sad that this man went to fight for his country and died of an infection |
| Dotty |
Poor chap...How sad as you say Jane.I'm glad I'm not a man... |