Cause of Death? Completed with thanks

[KitCarson]

Can anyone help me with the type of abscesses poor Isabella died from please?  Sounds awful 

Kit

[Gadget]

Hi Kit

I think it says Strumous Abcesses. Not sure but it could be TB swellings of the lymph nodes according to some Googling. I'm not a medic 


gnu

[KitCarson]

thanks gnu.  Sounds awful.  I know that lots of my Lancashire lot (with chemical industries/coal mining and terrible living conditions) died of TB but didn't really consider places like Nairn, with the sea and beach so close, to be a contender.  I suppose everyone lived in quite close quarters and things like TB would have spread like wildfire.

Cheers, Kit

[Treetotal]

A definition that I found gave "Struma"...An abnormal enlargement of the Thyroid Gland: Goitre.
Carol

[Gadget]

I think it can be that too, Carol. It seems to cover a wide range of conditions. If they were 'abscesses over the body', it wouldn't be goitre though.   There's a recent thread about it here:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,561018.0.html


gnu

Reading the last posting on that thread - sounds horrid 

[Treetotal]

See link:

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-definition/strumous

Carol

[Gadget]

Yes - saw that whe I Googled  but there are more discussions on the medical pages and they were 'over the body'  on the cert. not just the goitre so I think it would relate to the other def:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,561018.msg4136873.html#msg4136873

Struma - A scrofulous swelling, or tumor; also, scrofula itself. Sometimes applied to bronchocele. ALSO, Goiter; as pertaining to Tuberculosis; Scrofula.

AND

Scrofula - A disease characterized chiefly by chronic swelling of absorbent glands, particularly of the neck, behind the ears, and under the chin, tending slowly to imperfect suppuration. Also termed struma. ALSO, A form of tuberculosis affecting the lymph nodes, especially of the neck, that is most common in children and is usually spread by unpasteurized milk from infected cows. Also called struma; the King's Evil.

gnu

[Treetotal]

Yeah...I get it now I read it again....abcesses...rather than singular...You won that round 
Don't you learn a lot on here 
Carol

[KitCarson]

Thanks Guys