Author Topic: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?  (Read 1045 times)

Offline Andrew Tarr

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,969
  • Wanted: Charles Percy Liversidge
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 10 January 25 09:36 GMT (UK) »
The usual term for Syphilis was “ Paralysis of the Insane” .
Often abbreviated to GPI - General ....
Tarr, Tydeman, Liversidge, Bartlett, Young

Offline Top-of-the-hill

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,918
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 10 January 25 10:05 GMT (UK) »
  Someone I was researching, a well-connected naval officer, died in 1860 of "softening of the brain". I did wonder if this could be syphilis?
Pay, Kent
Codham/Coltham, Kent
Kent, Felton, Essex
Staples, Wiltshire

Offline Viktoria

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,028
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 10 January 25 13:27 GMT (UK) »
Quite likely.
Yes I had forgotten the “ General” ,thanks .
Viktoria.

Online coombs

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 7,796
  • Research the dead....forget the living.
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 10 January 25 13:39 GMT (UK) »
A Suffolk ancestor died in March 1844 of "Mental derangement". I wonder if that was syphilis.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain


Offline Andrew Tarr

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,969
  • Wanted: Charles Percy Liversidge
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 10 January 25 14:13 GMT (UK) »
A Suffolk ancestor died in March 1844 of "Mental derangement". I wonder if that was syphilis.
Although people in the 1840s generally had shorter lives, surely there was some simple dementia about ? There's plenty now, after all.
Tarr, Tydeman, Liversidge, Bartlett, Young

Offline Top-of-the-hill

  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • ******
  • Posts: 1,918
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #14 on: Friday 10 January 25 16:36 GMT (UK) »
  My naval officer was only 49.
Pay, Kent
Codham/Coltham, Kent
Kent, Felton, Essex
Staples, Wiltshire

Online coombs

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 7,796
  • Research the dead....forget the living.
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #15 on: Friday 10 January 25 16:44 GMT (UK) »
My ancestor who died in 1844 was 53, so I guess it was some early onset dementia.
Researching:

LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
USA Musgrave, Saix
ESSEX Cornwell, Stock, Quilter, Lawrence, Whale, Clift
OXON Edgington, Smith, Inkpen, Snell, Batten, Brain

Offline Viktoria

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,028
  • Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #16 on: Friday 10 January 25 21:58 GMT (UK) »
The blanket prescribing of Statins has been quoted as a cause of Dementia and Alzheimers’ .
They strip out cholesterol sure, but are not selective and too little in the brain and ———.
This was in a Health Programme on T.V.
Michael Mosely I seem to remember.

That is my excuse anyway  ::)

Viktoria,well I was yesterday.

Offline Mike in Cumbria

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 3,775
    • View Profile
Re: Cause of Death - was this really syphilis?
« Reply #17 on: Friday 10 January 25 22:21 GMT (UK) »
The blanket prescribing of Statins has been quoted as a cause of Dementia and Alzheimers’ .


Just the opposite. Research shows that statins reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by about 30% and vascular dementia by about 7%.