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Consumption: modern terminology?
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BrianW | Report | 17 Dec 2003 10:03 |
Thanks, everybody. She left three young kids. I don't know if the husband remarried, but his name was Robert Hamilton so fairly common and might take a bit of finding. |
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Carol | Report | 16 Dec 2003 22:47 |
John, I think it is pronounced as it is spelled F Th eye sis |
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*ღ*Dee in Bexleyheath*ღ* | Report | 16 Dec 2003 22:20 |
Maybe this is how you pronounce phthisis! Dierdre ;-)) |
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John | Report | 16 Dec 2003 20:49 |
How the h--l do you pronounce phthisis, or is this a bit of a leg pull ? John R |
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Linda & Tim | Report | 15 Dec 2003 20:14 |
If you haven't already found it, there's a brilliant website which helps with queries like this: http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm |
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nic87 | Report | 15 Dec 2003 16:17 |
Definitely TB- we did about this in school history lessons! |
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BobClayton | Report | 15 Dec 2003 16:15 |
Yes that's right TB of the lymph Nodes was called scrofula. It can affect many parts of the body including the bones which how it is Known to have been around for thousands of years. So consumption is pulmonary TB. Bob |
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*ღ*Dee in Bexleyheath*ღ* | Report | 15 Dec 2003 15:12 |
Definitely Tuberculosis, but I believe when termed as consumption, it refers to tuberculosis of the lungs. You can get TB elsewhere in the body. My own sister contracted TB of the bone, and I have heard of it in the bladder...mostly curable these days thank goodness. Dierdre X |
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BobClayton | Report | 15 Dec 2003 11:52 |
It is definitley TB. it was the biggest killer in history before antibiotics. (Chopin died of it) Bob |
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Linda | Report | 15 Dec 2003 11:14 |
I think It refers to TB (vague memories from my nursing days) Any way I have always assumed that it was TB Linda P |
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BrianW | Report | 15 Dec 2003 11:09 |
I received the death certificate on Saturday for an ancestor who died in 1838 of consumption aged 24. This term is no longer used medically, what would the modern equivalent(s) be? |
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