"itis" is typically an infection (at least here in the US). Could it have been some kind of menengitis or sinusitis? Rakay Dance >From: "Fay Lewis" <fay.lewis@virgin.net> >Reply-To: eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com >To: <eng-warks-birmingham@rootsweb.com> >Subject: [B'ham] General Hospital Birmingham >Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 20:52:53 -0000 > >Hi members, I appreciate this message is not Birmingham Specific so if I am >wrong in posting here then I do apologise. > >I have a copy of my g g g granfathers death certificate which states he >died in General Birmingham Hospital in 1839 aged 28 of an abscess to the >brain. I visited Birmingham Central Library today to look at the hospital >records to find when he had been admitted and to read the hospital notes. > >Unfortunately the details were very faint and I couldn't decipher the word >that had been written when he was first admitted 13 days before he died. >In brackets was written "abscess to the cerebellum" which was added after >he died. > >I am sure I have come accross a web site which lists diseases/terms used in >that era of causes of death - has anyone else come accross that site? > >The word that was written when he was first admitted looked like "Th...tis? >or possibly could have been a little longer with another couple of letters. > I think the "tis" stands for inflammation. > >Regards > >Fay > >_____________________________________________ >Tracing Ancestors in Birmingham: >http://www.bham.de/ > >Any problems, please contact the List Admin: >ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-admin@rootsweb.com >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >ENG-WARKS-BIRMINGHAM-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC. Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo0050000002msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail