> Please can anyone recognise the cause death of a 22 year old Fish Hook > Maker at Redditch, Worcestershire in 1852. > > An image can be viewed at :- > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~billburgoyne/death%20cause.htm > > Thanks, > > Bill Hello Bill Sounds to me more likely to have been a case of accidentally swallowing Formic Acid It is a fatty acid commonly found in ants and stinging nettles. It's makeup is H-CO-OH Regards David Pearsall