Cause of death?

[Gadget]

Hi Tracey

Send my your e-mail via PM because the image that I looked at was fairly clear and if it's not, I'll see if either one of us can enhance it  and I can send it to you 


Gadget

[LoneyBones]

Laudanum was made up of opium and morphine, it was widely used for just about everything from teething to "the vapours". It was still available in Australia as late as the 1940's and was a must in every well stocked medicine chest, along with the smelling salts and iodine.
Just my little bit of daily trivia.

Leonie.

[Maggie.]

To add to the trivia ...........

I have a couple of old pharmacy recipe books that probably date from the late 19th early 20th C and many of the medicines recipes within contain morphine and opium.  'Mist kaolin et morph' was a stomach mixture, also there was a yummy cough medicine containing morphine and both were available throughout the 1950s and freely given to me as a child 
......... end of trivia   

Maggie (daughter of a dispensing chemist)

[Dougalgeorge]

Gadget,

Thank you so much, that is fabulous, and I can read every word.

Narcotic poisoning it is !!


Thank you again
Tracey

[Redroger]

No doubt now in my mind, narcotic poisoning, but the enlargement sent you from SP suggests that they don't really understand what people are looking for.No need for the original now though.

[Dougalgeorge]

 

Who needs SP to send me a better image, when we have the marvel that is Gadget ! 


Regards
Tracey

[Redroger]

That is true; but the stuff about opiate use in the fens reminds me of a guy I worked with in the 1950s, a native of Boston b 1920 approx, nickname laudanum. I wonder!

[Pels.]

Are we really sure it isn't Narcotic Misusing ?? 

I could be wrong, but the majority of people on this thread can't be right all the time !!

[Redroger]

Pels, Like you I thought the certificatge said misusing, the recent work by Gadget, in the absence of a Registry Office hand written copy of the original has convinced me it is poisoning.