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need help to decipher cause of death,please
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Deb | Report | 10 Dec 2005 13:13 |
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I have just recieved the death cert of a 9 year old boy and cause of death looks like - tubas mesenterica. I googled the word mesenterica and it's a name of a mushroom??? Could he have eaten a deadly mushroom!!!!! Debbie |
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Unknown | Report | 10 Dec 2005 13:17 |
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It's tabes mesenterica: 'Tabes Mesenterica Tuberculosis of lymph glands inside the abdomen. An illness of children caused by drinking milk from cows infected with tuberculosis. Now uncommon as milk is pasteurised ' from useful site: www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm I had a great uncle who died of this. Ironically his father was a dairyman! nell |
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Deb | Report | 10 Dec 2005 13:24 |
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Thanks Nell, I thought the mushroom theory was a bit far fetched!!! I shall take a look at that site, I might find out about the causes of death of other relations. Debbie |
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