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Medical Term
Can anyone please help with a medical term? A death certificate shows cause as 'virium defecto' & the nearest I can come up with is lack of strength, which is a bit vague to say the least & not what I would have expected - the lady in question was only twenty one.
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I found a French entry for this term, and the equivalent is something like "weakening of the body".
Edit: Would it be synonymous with "decline"? |
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What period? Think of all the Victorian novels where women lie pale on couches. While I would have thought that cancer, tb, gastric problems and obvious contractable diseases would have been patent, heart problems, bad periods etc might not have been so obvious.
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Thanks,both. Death was 1902. Line above cause is partially obscured but I can just make out the words 'four years' so decline sounds likely. Just wish it said from what.
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Maybe Consumption aka Tuberculosis?
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Could it have been some type of blood cancer/disease?
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Anyone?
Institutiones medicae by Sprengel, Kurt Polycarp Joachim, 1766-1833 I certainly can't translate it, but now you've got me curious, Vita. |
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I've looked up translations of some individual words in the link & this is what I found:-
Rupti - torn Vasis - vessels Pectore - of the heart/breast Oppletionis - replenishment Ponderis - weight Subitanea - sudden So seems poor Gertrude had some kind of heart condition, but of course I could be wrong. pectore is of the heart/breast |
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