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Title: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: Clare Thompson on Saturday 07 February 15 21:55 GMT (UK)
Hello! This is my first post, looking for your expert opinion folks!

Can anyone offer any insight into the cause of death of this fellow? He was my great great grandfather, a coal miner who died at the age of 30 in 1888. It looks like Fyamia or syarmia but i know these are not words!

 ???

Title: Re: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: PaulineJ on Saturday 07 February 15 22:01 GMT (UK)
Pyaemia?
Title: Re: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: JenB on Saturday 07 February 15 22:03 GMT (UK)
Yes I also think pyaemia, it's apparently a form of septicaemia.
Title: Re: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: Clare Thompson on Saturday 07 February 15 22:03 GMT (UK)
Thank you Pauline, that is exactly what it looks like! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyaemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyaemia)
Title: Re: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: craggagh on Saturday 07 February 15 22:04 GMT (UK)
Hello -

It could be either pyasmia or pyaemia.

craggagh.
Title: Re: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: Clare Thompson on Saturday 07 February 15 22:05 GMT (UK)
Pair sowl!
Title: Re: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: Ruskie on Saturday 07 February 15 22:13 GMT (UK)
Written in the margin - there is an RCE for this - might be worth a few credits to see what it says?


Quote from: Clare Thompson on Saturday 07 February 15 22:05 GMT (UK)
Pair sowl!
???
Title: Re: Help with reading cause of death
Post by: Annie65115 on Sunday 08 February 15 19:01 GMT (UK)
It does look like pyaemia but I wonder if the registrar meant "empyema" -- which usually occurs in the chest --especially since you say he was a miner.