Understanding a "Cause of Death" - COMPLETED

[Smelly Kelly]

More likely to be Morbus Cardis for a period of 14 yrs resulting in the person's demise,cheers Smelly

Please does anyone know what the following means :

Morbus Cardis  14 years

I know morbus Cardis but wondered what the 14 years meant?  The person who died was 36 and died at home.....

Many thanks

Tilly

[john_w]

The usual disease that follows from contact with rats - or more correctly, rat urine or saliva, is leptospirosis. Sometimes called Weils Disease.

A common complication of which is renal (kidney) failure. So his Brights disease could well have started as a consequence of an encounter with a rat.

[toni*]

that makes sense JOhn

[tilly56]

Hello Toni, Smelly and John

Thank you for your help - however, it would seem that he didn't fight in the Boer War, I should have noticed that the dates didn't really fit -   So it would seem that he probably died from a weak heart, although of course I'll probably never know what brought it on...... He might have been in S. Africa at some time, as, when he died, his widow went to live there with some of the children and he could have been bitten by a rat anywhere - so maybe it's a case of a different stories getting muddled up and romanticized( ???spelling)...............

thank you again

Tilly


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