Hi Elizabeth Just a thought. Another possibility might be the word naris meaning opening to the nose, that would fit with the nosebleed Cheers Sandie in Nova Scotia Elizabeth Agar wrote: >Hi James, > >I couldn't find anything on Paul Smith's site at >http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm >but going from OED definitions - > >nates = (1) buttocks or haunches > (2) the anterior and larger pair of the optic lobes of the brain. > >slough = Of diseased skin, tissue, etc.: >(a) To come away or off, to be shed, as a slough. >1720 Quincy tr. Hodges' Loimologia 138 Those which went no >further than the skin, would oftentimes slough off. >1787 Med. Comm. II. 160 A large portion of the integuments.. >sloughed away. >1813 J. Thomson Lect. Inflamm. 269 The injured part of the >artery sloughed off with the ligature. >1847 W. C. L. Martin Ox 160/2 The diseased part..sloughs away, >and new and healthy skin is reproduced. > >(b) To become covered or encrusted with a slough; to form or >develop necrosed tissue. >1787 Med. Comm. II. 160 It was evident that some part of the >urethra had also sloughed. >1804 Abernethy Surg. Obs. 54 The exposed tumour inflamed and >sloughed progressively, till it entirely came away. >1846 F. Brittan tr. Malgaigne's Man. Oper. Surg. 319 The columna.. >sloughed from the fourth day, and was removed with the scissors. >1880 MacCormac Antiseptic Surg. 14 In the other case of >protracted recovery, a large portion of skin sloughed. >fig. > >2. trans. To eat away, to throw off, by the formation of a slough or >sloughs. >1762 R. Guy Pract. Obs. Cancers 48 Four large Ulcers were >sloughing the Breast away. >1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 612 The portion of the vertebra >which has been cut through will have to be sloughed off before the >wound can heal. > >So, did he die of bed sores or a brain tumour?? > >Perhaps an email to Paul Smith will help with this too!! > >Cheers, >Liz in Melbourne > >On Friday, September 12, 2003 9:44 AM, James Harrison [SMTP:jh004e4234@blueyonder.co.uk] wrote: > >>Has anyone come across 'Sloughing of the Nates'. This is what my great great great great grandfather was certified as dying fom in 1860. >> >>James Harrison >>Halesowen >>West Midlands. >> >> >>==== ENG-NORTH-YORKS Mailing List ==== >>ROLL CALLS? Not permitted unless instituted by the List Admin. But post >>your interests and areas of search often. New members join every day. >> >>============================== >>To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >> > > >==== ENG-NORTH-YORKS Mailing List ==== >This List is dedicated to the North Riding, Yorkshire, England! If you >have a problem, question, need direction or to report a virus, please >contact Kathleen off-list at Administration@KathleensKorner.net. Thanks. > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >