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Hi,

Visitation of God seems to be used to emphasize another cause of death.

i.e. heart failure, visitation of God - meaning that the person died of natural causes, suddenly, by a heart attack.

Used by itself, it would probably mean "died suddenly". I would assume by a heart attack.

This is just speculation, I haven't found a definition for it in any source.

Regards, Rumire

Hi,

Another possibility as a precursor to heart disease could be rheumatic fever. It is defined as: A severe infectious disease occurring chiefly in children, characterized by fever and painful inflammation of the joints and frequently resulting in permanent damage to the valves of the heart.

It is listed on my favorite website for causes of death www.antiquusmorbus.com

Best Regards, Rumire

Here's a better definition of Teething as a cause of death. It came from an article in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly in 1988. It is posted on the website www.antiquusmorbus.com > The entire process which results in the eruption of the teeth. Nineteenth-century medical reports stated that infants were more prone to disease at the time of teething. Symptoms were restlessness, fretfulness, convulsions, diarrhea, and painful and swollen gums. The latter could be relieved by lancing over the protruding tooth. Often teething was reported as a cause of death in infants. Perhaps they became susceptible to infections, especially if lancing was performed without antisepsis. Another explanation of teething as a cause of death is that infants were often weaned at the time of teething; perhaps they then died from drinking contaminated milk, leading to an infection, or from malnutrition if watered-down milk was given.