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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: ptdrifter on Thursday 06 July 23 20:51 BST (UK)
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Can anyone let me know what the cause of death says please?
(Hopefully enough of the cert shown, but not too much for GRO copyright)
Thanks
Fred
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Could you please give the date please so we can see if it is an older complaint expressed differently to what we say now
Also pl advise the wording of the column heading.
Sort of looks like Alous or Alons and i thought of Alois Alzheimer?
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I wonder if the second word is Folicula. The first letter is not a T see next column.
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Thanks for looking , the date is 1874.
The columns are occupation, (Ostler)
cause of death, and informant.
He was in and out of the Sick Asylum a lot for the year or so before his death, and was last discharged a few days before he died.
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Well it seems to say Alous Soluba, but I can’t find online help as to what that would have meant.
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I came up with the same , and Alous Soilicta, but again no meaning anywhere.
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I think the second word is Soluta, which no-one seems to have suggested yet? It means 'loosened', 'freed', 'released'. But I haven't identified the first word, or the full phrase.
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But the Lead letter of the second word does not look like the "S" of Sick Asylum
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But the Lead letter of the second word does not look like the "S" of Sick Asylum
The top, the foot and the slope of the two are very similar. The initial hook is different, but that may be because the S of Sick is closely preceded by another word (The). But I wouldn't want to push it without knowing what the first word or the whole phrase might be, and nothing has been found yet.
I don't think the first letter is F because it has nothing resembling a crossbar through the downstroke. There aren't enough pen-strokes for Folicula, Sollicita etc. (unless mis-spelt).
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Don't know if a bit more of the writing might help
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The S of Sixteenth looks the same, so I concede Bookbox. It’s an S.
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The words “alous soluta” appear here
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01sgh/
But I am sure it is directions for mixing a therapeutic agent of some sort
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Following up on “soluta” = loose, this entry at nationalarchives implies (perhaps? it is somewhat cryptic) that “loose inside” was a cause of death.
https://tinyurl.com/4w5p3fmu (https://tinyurl.com/4w5p3fmu)
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Interesting book mckha489
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Or does that mean the certificates were loose inside, Alan ?
Intriguing
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Yes ptdrifter, now that you point it out…
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Following up on “soluta” = loose, this entry at nationalarchives implies (perhaps? it is somewhat cryptic) that “loose inside” was a cause of death.
https://tinyurl.com/4w5p3fmu (https://tinyurl.com/4w5p3fmu)
Soluta could also mean "dissolved" while the word "alvine" related to the bowels - could we be looking at a literal report of the symptoms of say cholera?
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Ah, Davidgp I think you may have cracked it .
Alvus constricta is constipation, so alvus soluta, diarrhea like symptoms?
Thanks all , a step closer
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from: Physician's prescription book: Containing List of Terms, Phrases, Contractions and Abbreviations... by Jonathan Pereira, 1865
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Thanks Alan
I think that clinches it :)
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Excellent!