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hi, I have a death cert for my grandmothers brother, it states he died from phthisis, 4 months. he was age 15, in 1905. when he died. Can anyone tell me what phthisis is or was please

dust on the lungs - I googled for it, not that clever!!! Did he work down the mines or something like that?

phthisis
any disease causing a wasting away of part or all of the body, especially tuberculosis of the lungs

Roy

phthi·sis (thss, t-) or phthis·ic (tzk, thz-)
n.
1. A disease characterized by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or part of the body.
2. Tuberculosis of the lungs. No longer in technical use.

Phthisic, phthisis [From Greek phthisikos through Latin and Old French] 1 Pulmonary tuberculosis. 2 Any of various lung or throat affections; a severe cough; asthma.

This term, once very common but now extremely rare, had a large number of euphonious derivatives, e.g. phthisiology, phthisiologist, phthisiophobia, phthisicky, phthisiotherapy, and phthisiotherapist. Not to be confused with phthiriasis which means an infestation with lice.


http://www.neonatology.org/classics/old.terms.html

http://rmhh.co.uk/medical.html

usually means died of TB

This is really strange, my great great grandmother died of this, she was born in 1847 and died in 1886. I thought it was some kind of cancer.

I need more learning!!!!!

no no no - not more learning, more googling!!!!

Thanks all, I dont think he worked in the mines, in 1901 he was working as a page. his father was a publican, his brother, died a few month earlier, I have the burial record but not his death cert, sad, 2 sons lost in 2 month,
I expect the brother would have died from the same illness.

Thanks
Kathy

hi, I have just done a search on BMD to find the ref for the death of John Jordan found at archives. MF 871 Benwell John Jordan age 17, March 1st 1905, address 84 Mill Lane I found the parish record of his death, but cant find the ref, can anyone help. Also that leaves on brother unaccounted for, here is the parish record of his birth, BIRTH 1891 JAMES HENRY JORDAN, 12 JULY 1891 St SILAS BYKER ADDRESS 46 MOWBRE ST is there anyway I can trace him after the 1901 census record.
Thanks
Kathy

Ann - well more googling then!!!

where are we talking about???


you give street address, but what's the town, the county?



sylvia

Ryan.
For future ref..Google old diseases.

Also old occupations is interesting

Sylvia.

Benwell and St Silas Byker are mentioned. These are Newcastle area

AH


thank you Margaret

I did not know that!


sylvia

cannot find death registration for Benwell John Jordan on freebmd

nor can I find it on the Complete Index to Deaths ..... and I looked under JordAn, JordEn and JordOn



The only thing that I can suggest is that somehow the registration has been lost ..... maybe it did not get sent down from the local Registry office to GRO in London


All I can suggest is that you contact the local Registray Office, give them the information that you have, and ask if they can find it in their records.


sylvia

This is a good site for old medical terms.

http://www.antiquusmorbus.com

Phthisis was TB and was endemic in the 1800/ 1900,s. I have a 15 year old dying from it in 1903 plus my grt grandfather died in 1884 aged 37 from it as well.
Can remember there was still a TB convalescent Hospital at Margate in Kent when I was a girl in the 1940s/50s

Hi thanks to all who replied, I could never find a death ref for him either, I do have the cert for his brother, I will contact the local reg office and see if they can find it.

Best wishes
Kathy