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Offline k4ylee

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Need help with deciphering!
« on: Thursday 13 November 08 13:19 GMT (UK) »
Hi!

can anyone help me decipher what this cause of death is?   many thanks in advance!



Kirsty
Given, Nicholson, Kennaway, Campbell, Dye, Honeyman, Gallacher, Wylie, Cameron, Kavanagh, McKittrick,  Hyndman,  Wotherspoon, Gardiner, Bruce, Hendry, MacVicar, Bain.

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Re: Need help with deciphering!
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 13 November 08 13:38 GMT (UK) »
It says phthisis - from memory I think that's TB

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SOM: BIRD, BURT aka BROWN - HEF: BAUGH, LATHAM, CARTER, PRITCHARD - GLS: WEBB, WORKMAN, LATHAM, MALPUS - WIL: WEBB, SALTER - RAD: PRITCHARD, WILLIAMS - GLA: RYAN, KEARNEY, JONES, HARRY - MON: WEBB, MORGAN, WILLIAMS, JONES, BIRD - SCOTLAND: HASTINGS, CAMERON, KELSO, BUCHANAN, BETHUNE/ BEATON - IRELAND: RYAN (WATERFORD), KEARNEY (DUBLIN), BOYLE(DUNDALK)

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Re: Need help with deciphering!
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 13 November 08 13:39 GMT (UK) »
You beat me, but I agree with Phthisis and TB

Jen
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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Need help with deciphering!
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 13 November 08 13:42 GMT (UK) »
phthi·sis (thss, t-) also phthis·ic (tzk, thz-)
n.

1. A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body.
2. Tuberculosis of the lungs. No longer in scientific use.

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Re: Need help with deciphering!
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 13 November 08 13:55 GMT (UK) »
thanks all!! what a great bunch! X
Given, Nicholson, Kennaway, Campbell, Dye, Honeyman, Gallacher, Wylie, Cameron, Kavanagh, McKittrick,  Hyndman,  Wotherspoon, Gardiner, Bruce, Hendry, MacVicar, Bain.

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Re: Need help with deciphering! - and another!
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 13 November 08 14:17 GMT (UK) »
here's another?   any takers?!

i can make out collapse..  just not sure what the first part says?

thanks again!
K
Given, Nicholson, Kennaway, Campbell, Dye, Honeyman, Gallacher, Wylie, Cameron, Kavanagh, McKittrick,  Hyndman,  Wotherspoon, Gardiner, Bruce, Hendry, MacVicar, Bain.

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Re: Need help with deciphering!
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 13 November 08 14:25 GMT (UK) »
Looks like Gastritis




Acute gastritis


Acute gastritis is a sudden inflammation of the lining of the stomach.

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