Deciphering cause of death

[curiousgeorge1]

I guess that is the point. Thank goodness for modern treatments

[Viktoria]

I did not know you could die from erysipelas, perhaps the arm injury was serious enough to cause complications.
My late husband developed a really  nasty rash , which looked like erysipelas to me.
Off to the Doctors`and it was not that at all but a rash due to very poor oxygen levels which enable even low to ,normal levels of skin bacteria to multiply at an astounding rate.It was due to his poor heart function.
 I could not understand why it might be erysipelas as he was showered every day. Clean towels and clean clothes. I was upset thinking it was poor hygiene which  can cause erysipelas.It took a lot of  treatment to clear it up as his heart was getting worse.
Perhaps it can get so serious it causes something like septicaemia which can cause death.
Viktoria.

[Geoff-E]

This was the cause of death of an ancestor of mine.

It doesn't sound a pleasant way to go.

[Billyblue]

As a trainee nurse back in the late 1950s, the first patient I had to 'lay out' after death was a lady in her 40s who had died of erysipelas.
A distressing death!
Dawn M