Forum: Medical

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. ...

While researcihng medical diagnoses, I have come across the following: Senile Dementia Ahlzeimer's Disease While I was led to believe that these are essentially one and the same thing, how they are handled by a carer of a sufferer is different. Never having any pyschological training, I...

Could someone advise me if there is a medical reference site that I can look at. I have recently obtained a death certificate for a relative who died in 1910 at the age of three, his cause of death was Convulsions. I have had a look at some sites but I have not managed to find what I am...

Family history has it that my mother's uncle, Richard Charles Schroeder, was injured while down the pit in Wales during WW1. We believe he was in hospital in Tredegar or Bedwelty for a number of years until he died without ever leaving hospital. We have a photograph of him in his hospital bed but...

has anyone had any family who died of tb in that hospital or the godalming sanataruium.also has anyone checked the hospital records out. any help wolud be great. thanks claire:)

I've been looking through death certficates and causes of death and, like another posting here, I've found two suicides whilst suffering 'temporary insanity' - one of a chap whose wife was 7 months pregnant with their 16th child! However, in tracking the causes of death of the five children (of...

I’ve seen a program on TV some time ago about syphilis and what they could do for it back in the 1800’s , not much. It said that they didn’t really have a cure and that left unchecked sometimes it would burn its self out and would go on its own. Albeit leaving disfigurement in its path. What...

I have noted that in my direct line the first cousins married way back in the 1600's. I also know that my uncle and his Grand father (my great grandfather) had epilepsy. I was told that epilepsy can effect every second generation. My questions could the marriage of the first cousins be the cause of...

Does anyone know the year that vaccination for Diptheria was first available in England & was it compulsory for all children.

Is there anyway of searching for hospital admissions etc for the mid 1800's? I am thinking for the moment of midlesex and Essex areas.

This man was a Doctor around the Bournemouth area. He married Caroline Houldsworth in 1877. His daughter Mary married George Walter Boughtwood and then went on to marry Edwin Joseph Wheeler (which is my wife's side of the family) The above was also supposed (so family folklore says) ...