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Offline hurworth

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The cause of gonorrhea is obvious!
« on: Sunday 18 June 17 00:28 BST (UK) »
I was browsing some mid to late 19th century military records.  One soldier was treated on a few occasions for gonorrhea.  For every illness or injury there the doctor filled out the cause.  Often I have seen contagion given as the cause, but in this instance the doctor wrote "Obvious".

I suppose the doctor thought it was a silly question!

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Re: The cause of gonorrhea is obvious!
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 18 June 17 01:00 BST (UK) »
 ;D  ;D

Hurworth, that's one of the things I enjoy about genealogy....some of the quips, it just makes me laugh.

I have a 2 x g g/mother who had errant ways & a Judge described her as 'The Terror of Watsonville' which was the area she lived in  :o

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South Uist, Inverness-shire, Scotland:- Bowie, Campbell, Cumming, Currie

Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: The cause of gonorrhea is obvious!
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 18 June 17 01:52 BST (UK) »
I suppose the doctor thought it was a silly question!

 ;D ;D ;D
England:  Archer, Bailey, Bates, Blower, Bosworth, Court, Hicklin, Orton, Palmer, Robbins, Sedgwick, Smith, Stevenson, Stone, Varnam, Wakelin, Walker
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