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