Forum: Medical

Whilst looking on google for any old info of a family name I came across a very long PDF,and it has everything over 190 pages about a persons medical history concerning him killing two people and all his details of when why what they treated him with,and this is dated on the latest date as...

Hello All I have been desperately trying to tie down the family history of my maternal great grandmother Annie Ellen Griffiths without success for about 18 months now but without a date of birth found it impossible.She gave birth to my grandmother,Doris Annie Griffiths,illegitimately,in Poulton...

The Matriculation Albums of the University of Glasgow shows JACOBUS SWAN M.D. 1782. I know who he is but after getting his M.D in 1782 I can find nothing on him. Are there any Registers on line where I can try to find him please?

I am enquering about my 5x great Grandfather Henry Best born in abt 1730 in Lanteglos, Cornwal to William and Ann Best in his marriage record on January 5th 1755 where he married a Grace Smith in Lanteglos it states his profession as a surgeon and I wanted to find out more about him and his career,...

I found this handy website today. Hugh. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms A Glossary of Archaic Medical Terms, Diseases and Causes of Death www. antiquusmorbus.com/Index.htm

Not sure if I have posted this in the correct place. I am trying to find any records for a Still Birth in Brighton - 1942. Would very much like to know more. Kind regards, fortyseven

I've just received a death certificate for a 23 yr old male who died of "Black Thrush" in October 1842 in Wickham Market, Suffolk. I would guess he was previously healthy as his occupation is given as "Labourer" and he was listed as a Labourer in London on the 1841 census. Does anyone have any...

(Moderators please move this if you think it should be somewhere else.) Oh dear! How was one classified a criminal lunatic? What crimes may they have committed? Where would they have been tried? I have just decided that the following criminal lunatic is almost certainly my ancestor. ...

Ages ago I found a really good website which translated into layman's terms most of the causes of death that might be found on old death certificates. Then my computer crashed and I lost all my Favourites! :mad5: I would really like to find the site again but have searched and searched with no...

This list from Lambeth Palace Archives might be of use to anyone with a doctor in the tree. www. lambethpalacelibrary.org/files/Medical_Licences.pdf

Hi everyone, I hope I'm in the right place for this query. I'm trying to establish whether Dr Robert de Vere Hunt was registered with the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He was Irish, and came from Tuam, Galway. Apart from his father being Thomas de Vere Hunt, and the fact that he...

One of my great grandmother's older sisters died of 'Phthisis', advanced TB?, when she was 24 in 1870. As children the had spent time in Uttoxeter Workhouse. Could this have weekened her immune system resulting in her early death. I understand her husband died shortly before her but I am...

I am trying to find information on my husbands grandfather Archibald Andrew MacKinnon, who was born in Scotland about 1855. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and shortly after emigrated to British Guyana (Guyana), where he married Hilda Jane Gemmel and had 6 children. His...

Hi All I'm new to this site, just found it whilst researching how to find my mothers medical records. She died in 1988 at Charing Cross Hospital, I have her death cert, however she also had some illness in approx mid/early seventies which I am trying to find more details on. Can anyone advise me...

During my research I have come across a very tragic case of an 'infant cot death' in the early 1960's .Would there have been an inquest and coroners report for a cot death where there was no previous medical problem.

Debilty from birth. Have this on a babies death cert age 4 months. Does anyone know exactly what it means. Looked at old illnesses etc. and it says. Debility - Lack of movement or staying in bed. Do you think this meant the poor little mite was born disabled and would never have been able to...

I've not seen this one before! A 37 year old woman who died in London of "chronic gastric catarrh and liver disease 12 months. Exhuastion". I did just a bit of looking around and it looks as though this could have been caused by alcohol abuse (which wouldn't surprise me, as it has been family...

I have been reading through an ancestor's Army medical report from 1876 which states that he had to be pensioned off due to chronic rhuematism in both legs. The doctor states : 2 femoral ???. The word he has written in the space of my questions marks I just cannot understand the handwriting. ...