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Europe / Re: Bagni de Lucca
« on: Monday 13 December 21 03:47 GMT (UK)  »
Hello Everybody. I purchased a miniature painting, a watercolour, in Adelaide SA the other day because it reminded me of my brother as a young man. To my surprise there is a name on the back that says John Justinian Hanchette, and an inscription that I think reads aged 14 years and 10 months. There is also a faint swirly signature, maybe able to be seen under a better light.

After doing a bit of research, I found information about his diary in Tasmania so I telephoned the Tasmanian Maritime Museum about it last week in case they were interested to know of its existence, but they have not got back to me as yet. This is a very old thread so I do not know if anybody is watching it any more.

If anyone is interested I'm happy to send more details.

Liz

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of Death
« on: Saturday 01 December 18 22:29 GMT (UK)  »
I think it says dropsy which is a term used to describe oedema, common in congestive and right heart failure where swelling of the ankles occurs and can be quite marked. So a combo of left heart failure giving fluid in the lungs, shortness of breath cough and sometime wheezing and right heart failure allowing fluid to build up in the extremities is cardiac asthma and dropsy. Dropsy is a description really not an actual diagnosis and it is very hard to read but given the preceding term of cardiac asthma that is the most likely addional symptom.

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The Common Room / Re: Old medical term "waste" ?
« on: Saturday 01 December 18 16:35 GMT (UK)  »
Waste or wasting was a medical description for a chronic disease that caused the gradual or sometimes quite aggressive debility of the patient. Commonly used as a description in tuberculosis but not exclusively so, for example it was seen in diabetes especially insulin deficiency or type 1 before we had insulin, the patient would literally waste away. Sometimes associated with extreme effects of age as well. So it is not a diagnosis really it is a description of the patients illness.

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The Common Room / Re: Medical term
« on: Saturday 01 December 18 16:17 GMT (UK)  »
Tubercular liver probably refers to tuberculosis that has arisen in the liver, called primary, or has got to the liver by spreading from somewhere else such as the lungs. In the 1800s we did not have any medications for tuberculosis. Nowadays this diagnosis is rare.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Cause of Death
« on: Saturday 01 December 18 15:56 GMT (UK)  »
Cardiac disease and Cardiac Asthma- latter is shortness of breath due to heart failure commonly associated with cardiac disease.

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Australia Resources & Offers / OFFER- South Australia photographs Fleurieu Peninsula areas
« on: Saturday 01 December 18 03:37 GMT (UK)  »
Photography of graves, cemeteries, headstones and sites, Fleurieu Peninsula South Australia including Victor Harbor, Port Elliot, Goolwa, Yankalilla and Normanville areas.

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