help reading cause of death

[garngad]

Appreciate some help to decipher cause of death of a relative from 1880 certificate he was aged 11yrs if it is of help thanks to all who reply.

[sancti]

Anaemia?

[garngad]

Im not sure sancti thought it ended onia just can't see the m but i will go and look up your suggestion cheers.

[Piglet01]

I'd definitely back Sancti on anaemia. 

Compare it to other words/letters that you can see on the download.  Have a look at the name underneath the cause 'a cert. by James Mckay'.

Regards,   Steve   

[garngad]

Piglet i do agree but something tells me that might not be the case for 1880 cause of death ( to early in medical history) but i'm no medical student  so will have to go with you and sancti thanks again.

[Forfarian]

I'd go for Anaemia too.

[1pds]

Yes, probably Anaemia...

[sancti]

French physician Gabriel Andral is credited with introducing the term anemia around 1829
 
The first thoroughly studied anemia was pernicious anemia, so called because it invariably led to death. In a patient with pernicious anemia, the red blood cells fail to develop normally, and the steady decline of red blood corpuscles eventually leads to death.
 
English physician Thomas Addison (1793-1860) gave the first complete description of the disease--"a remarkable form of general anemia"--in 1849.

[Forfarian]

'Anemia' is of course the American spelling; a Scottish doctor in the 1880s would spell it 'anaemia'. From the Greek 'an' indicating an absence of some thing and 'hæma' meaning blood, though in the case of anaemia it's the iron-rich red blood cells, not the whole blood, that is in short supply.