Hopefully these two lists can help with questionable medical terms on documents. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/ Archaic medical terms: http://www.genealogy-quest.com/glossaries/diseases1.html Edd Sinnett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eliz Hanebury" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 6:19 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] Hereditory illness On death certificates Paralysis Agitans is Parkinsons, General Paralysis of the insane is third state of syphillis Eliz On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Margaret Doyle <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, just to mention that some illness+disabilities had different labels in > the past. A lot of them would have just been labelled under an umbrella. > For example, Parkinsons, Cerebral Palsy or anything resembling spacticity > was simply called Paralysis. (not sure of the spellings). Because the > medical profession has moved forward, ( I sometimes wonder), illness's > have been individualised. My guess would be that those with EDS would have > been diagnosed with club foot in the 18th+19th centuries, if they had the > vascular type. > Maggie > > > ****************************** > ATTENTION TO ALL:- Do any of you ever get to the bottom of this mail?, and > do you remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the > SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ****************************** ATTENTION TO ALL:- Do any of you ever get to the bottom of this mail?, and do you remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message