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Title: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: Peter L. Mitchell on Tuesday 24 March 20 00:31 GMT (UK)

The attachment is a screenshot of my great-grandfather's cause of death in 1909. I can't work out what it was, though. Can anyone help, please?

Thanks,
            Peter

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 24 March 20 00:52 GMT (UK)

Morbus ——————
Syncope

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: Peter L. Mitchell on Tuesday 24 March 20 00:54 GMT (UK)

Great! Thank you! Now for the middle word!

Peter

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: crowsfeet on Tuesday 24 March 20 00:55 GMT (UK)

I agree.

I thought the middle word might be something like 'Bright's'.

Regards Crowsfeet

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 24 March 20 00:55 GMT (UK)

I think it starts with an M. But also wondered about Bright.....

However ends tion? 

As far as I know Bright’s disease has always been that,  never a longer word.

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: Peter L. Mitchell on Tuesday 24 March 20 01:08 GMT (UK)

I wonder if in the middle word that the second letter might be a crossed out error? Definitely ight after the first letters. I'm puzzled by the last letter - seem to be two dots above them.

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 24 March 20 01:25 GMT (UK)

Unfortunately my favourite and first port of call for causes of death “Rudy’s” seems to have been hijacked and is all in Japanese.  >:(

I can see the ‘right’ though that may be because others have mentioned it and now that I have seen it I can’t I see it.  :)

However I am not sure that the first letter is an M. I think it could be an N or an R. Of course the R doesn’t make sense if the following letters are ‘right’.

This is what I think I see:
N or R
r? 
i
g or y
h
i?
n

 :-\

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: Peter L. Mitchell on Tuesday 24 March 20 02:37 GMT (UK)

Found it!

Morbus Brightis Syncopae

Apparently no longer used by the medical fraternity. It's a disease of the kidneys characterised by the following symptoms: Oedema, albumen in the urine, hypertension. inflammation of serious membranes, haemorrhaging, apoplexy, convulsions, and blindness. I managed to track it back from the death of Jacob Rath in Cincinnati in 1908.

Thank you to you clever people!

Peter

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 24 March 20 02:39 GMT (UK)

Well done.
And thank goodness.  I can’t bear it when these things don’t get solved!

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: Peter L. Mitchell on Tuesday 24 March 20 02:40 GMT (UK)

Special thanks to crowsfeet for zeroing in on Bright's Disease, which is what it was/is.

Title: Re: Help with cause of death, please
Post by: crowsfeet on Tuesday 24 March 20 02:41 GMT (UK)

I also am very pleased as it was niggling away in the recesses of my brain.

Delighted for you

Regards Crowsfeet