Forum: Medical

Can anybody give me information about the Australasian Club in Edinburgh please? I know it was accommodation for Australian and NZ medical students at the University. Does anyone know the address of the club in the 1880's or if it is possible to get any club records from that time. I am...

I have several photographs of patients in Ronkswood taken in about 1945-48. This hospital was for servicement who had been injured and needed further hospitalisation. My father was in there for several years, he had plastic surgery and reconstruction work. Anyone interested I can pass on.

i have been getting help tracing some of my ancestors in the brick wall section http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/74206-need-help-tracing-ancestors is there any easy way to find out causes of death because i am trying to trace the route of the breast cancer gene through my...

I have a 57-year-old man, a merchant who seems to have been on a business trip at the time, where cause of death is listed as what looks to me like "Nusmic convulsions". I can't find anything that might tell me what that is! Can anyone help, please? http://...

I have just had, because of a high iron/ferratin count, genetic testing for Hemachromatosis and although, thankfully I am OK I do carry a mutated gene, making me a carrier of the disorder. I had little knowledge of this thing before all this came about but I am astounded at the numbers of people...

Charles Darwin (1809-82) suffered from a chronic debilitating illness for much of his adult life. Many different diagnoses have been proposed for this illness but the most fitting is that of the Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome. He also had symptoms of the MELAS syndrome. Both these syndromes may be caused...

Does anyone know which hospital in the district of st pancras would have treated a newborn baby in 1921? There is a baby on a branch of my tree who is born in Epping and dies within 3 months - the registration is in st pancras so i assume that's where the hospital is. I know I could solve this by...

Received a death certificate for an ancestor yesterday - she died in 1850, age 59, of synocha hydrothorax. Anyone have a clue about what this might be? I had no success with googling, think maybe synocha is fever? Any help appreciated.

(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. ...

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...

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...