Cause of death

[Ayashi]

I recently obtained my g-g-grandfather's death certificate, but he's got a cause of death that even after googling I'm still none the wiser... It seems the first one especially can't be explained without more medical terminology...

He died aged 74 (in 1927) of
1) Senile Endarteritis Obliterans
2) Pseudo Bulbar Paralysis

It also says that there wasn't a PM, so how would they have known what he died of?

I was hoping that someone could explain in Language for Idiots what my rellie actually died of lol

Thanks

[FosseWay]

How clear is the handwriting? 'Endarteritis' looks as though it might be garbled. If you do a Google search on 'obliterans' only, it comes up with various terms in front of it, though I can't make any of them look like 'endarteritis' in handwriting.

For the bulbar paralysis, see here, for example. I can't explain 'pseudo' -- again, is this in clear handwriting, or could it be something else?

[Ruskie]

Just doing a bit of googling ...  

Senile endarteritis is artheriosclerosis (not sure about ththat last word ... )

[maidmarianoops]

hello i have been checking on google images,and i think we are better off not knowing

yuk


sylvia

[Ruskie]

endarteritis ob·lit·er·ans

endarteritis in which the intimal tissue proliferates and ultimately plugs the lumen of an affected artery -- called also obliterating endarteritis

I imagine the "senile" bit was because he was elderly and the condition was due to his old age?

[Ruskie]

hello i have been checking on google images,and i think we are better off not knowing

yuk


sylvia

You must never google image medical conditions. 

[Ayashi]

Thanks Now I'll have to google "intimal" and "lumen" lol

Edit-
"Intimal" = inside lining of the vein/artery
"Lumen" = the inside space of the vein/artery

Sounds nice, doesn't it?  Not sure how they would have known it had done that unless it was an ongoing thing diagnosed some time before, poor chap.

I found pseudobulbar (one word) paralysis relating to the mouth and tongue?

[maidmarianoops]

i agree



sylvia

[maidmarianoops]

NameWalter C Hillier
Death 1927
Age 78
Reg Easthampstead
Berkshire
Volume 2c
Page 505


is this the same man

i had a walter hillier in my extended family

sylvia