Causes of death?

[DebbieLou]

Could anyone help with the following terms on death certificates?......

Nervous debility Pyoemia

Fibroid Phthisis Honouthe Asthemia 2 days
underlined words are hard to decipher.

Just out of interest I have a certificate where the cause of death was Locomotor Ataxia which, apparently, is final stage syphillis.

Also in 1900 a 33 year old woman died of Anorexia nervosa and exhaustion.

[RobinC]

Hi DebbieLou,

Phthisis is TB if I remember correctly as one of my great grandmother's died from it in 1922.

"Pyaemia (or pyemia) is a type of septicaemia that leads to widespread abscesses of a metastatic nature. It is usually caused by the staphylococcus bacteria by pus-forming organisms in the blood. Apart from the distinctive abscesses, pyaemia exhibits the same symptoms as other forms of septicaemia. It was almost universally fatal before the introduction of antibiotics."

[Jan1954]

Nervous debility Pyoemia Could this be Pyaemia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyaemia)?


Fibroid Phthisis Honouthe Asthemia 2 days Asthenia is weakness but I have no idea as to what Honouthe could be. Any chance of scanning that part of the certificate and posting it?

[DebbieLou]

Thanks for your replies - the pyaemia sounds awful - poor woman.

I'll have a go at scanning the certificate when our scanner is fired up!!!

[Kerrywood]

Asthenia is weakness but I have no idea as to what Honouthe could be.?

Could it perhaps be Stomach asthenia?