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    Default Causes of death?

    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.

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    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."

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    Quote Originally Posted by DebbieLou View Post
    Nervous debility Pyoemia
    Could this be 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?

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    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!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jan1954 View Post
    Asthenia is weakness but I have no idea as to what Honouthe could be.?
    Could it perhaps be Stomach asthenia?

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    Well, it's taken a while but I have scanned the cause of death on the certificate that I couldn't read!!!

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nHY...ew?usp=sharing

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    I've just had an answer from a FB group member - 4 months!!!

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