I'm interested if there is an organization that helps people that are in need of bone marrow transplants by doing their genealogy in the hopes of seeking out previously unknown branches of their family who would then be better candidates as bone marrow matches. Does anyone know of such an organization? IF not then I would like your help in starting such a group. Please send me your advice on this topic. Joseph Puentes > -----Original Message----- > From: medical-genealogy-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:medical-genealogy- > bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of medical-genealogy- > request@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 3:00 AM > To: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com > Subject: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1 > > > > WHEN REPLYING TO A POST IN THIS DIGEST remember to CHANGE THE SUBJECT > LINE and DELETE all previous posts so that this entire digest is not > sent to the list. > > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information > regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the > practice of medicine in the past. > > Do not post information on living people. > > Do not seek or give medical advice. > > Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive > on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting > private information about yourself. > ==== > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: intro from Barbara Pilvin > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 16:02:32 +0800 (WST) > Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-GENEALOGY] intro from Barbara Pilvin > To: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com > Cc: willowsmom@aol.com > Message-ID: > <alpine.DEB.2.00.1401021547440.29599@bret-dd- > workstation.busby.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > On Wed, 1 Jan 2014, JLA wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 03:15:35 > > From: JLA <jasche45133@gmail.com> > > Reply-To: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com > > To: willowsmom@aol.com > > Cc: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-GENEALOGY] intro from Barbara Pilvin > > > > Sorry if I didn't make the right impression . . . the issue is > privacy > > by posting on the list your personal health is open to anyone on the > > Internet because this list has a open archive on the Internet. > > > > Do you really want your private life so available? > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Joan > > > > On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Barbara Pilvin <willowsmom@aol.com> > wrote: > >> You ask people to introduce themselves so I did. I'm sorry if I > misunderstood that. I don't care for lectures from total strangers. > I'll unsubscribe later in the morning. > >> > >> > >> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S?4 > >> > >> -------- Original message -------- > >> From: JLA <jasche45133@gmail.com> > >> Date:01/01/2014 2:02 AM (GMT-05:00) > >> To: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com > >> Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-GENEALOGY] intro from Barbara Pilvin > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> Happy New Year! > >> > >> This is not the place to discuss personal health issues concerning > >> you or any living person in your family. This is not a private > >> discussion group. All posts are kept in an archives which are > >> available to anyone interested. This is a discussion group for > >> medical treatments of the past and illnesses that our ancestor's > dealt with. > >> > >> If you wish to discuss a particular subject please tell us in more > >> detail what it is. > >> > >> Sincerely > >> > >> Joan Asche > >> List Admin > >> > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Jan 1, 2014 at 1:09 AM, <Willowsmom@aol.com> wrote: > >>> Hi and Happy New Year! I'm a librarian with keen interests in > >>> history, genealogy, medicine, music, and, among other things > related > >>> to languages and cultures, almost anything French. (The "other > >>> things" include Latin, classical Hebrew and Russian.) I have a > >>> number of unusual medical conditions and traits (two very rare > >>> blood factors including an exceedingly uncommon red-cell factor), > >>> most of which are hereditary; in some other cases, they're > >>> secondary to treatment for heritable or hereditary disorders. > >>> Learning something about one that I saw in two family members > >>> before I was fully aware that I also had it inspired a strong > interest in it, especially since most doctors have trouble believing > it exists as a disease that can be inherited. > >>> Obviously I'm interested in tracing it (and other diseases) in my > >>> own family, but I'm also interested in helping other people with > similar goals. > >>> > >>> Barbara > >>> > >> _____________________________ > > > > This is interesting, because, what the List Administrator specified as > the purpose of the list, is different from my perception of the purpose > of the list. > > I have noticed apparent, interesting, trends in one family line of my > genealogy, that I had believed, could have been worthy of discussion, > on a list such as this, but, apparently, another list appears to be > required, for discussing genetic, hereditary, comgenital, medical > conditions that are revealed in the course of a person's genealogical > research. > > Various such conditions, have previously been publicly discussed, such > as the haemophilia that is apparently inherent in the royal family of > england (I do not say the english royal family, as I believe that it is > german, and not english, with scottish (going back through the Stuarts, > to MacBeth) components), sickle cell anaemia, that may be found in some > family lines, more prevalent than commonly in the populace, possibly > due to racial components, Lynch's Syndrome, hereditary osteoposoris, > etc, etc, etc. > > So, as this list is not for medical geanealogy, then, perhaps, a list > should be set up, for discussing medical genealogy. > > >From the purpose of this list as specified by the List Administrator, > this list appears to be only for the discussing of the history of > medicine, rather than for discussing medical genealogy. > > That is explicitly stated by the List Administrator. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > .................................................... > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the MEDICAL-GENEALOGY list administrator, send an email to > MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the MEDICAL-GENEALOGY mailing list, send an email > to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL- > GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the > body of the email with no additional text. > > > End of MEDICAL-GENEALOGY Digest, Vol 9, Issue 1 > ***********************************************

I am interested in finding an organization that seeks out previously unknown genealogical relatives in the hopes of finding possible candidates for bone marrow matching. Does anyone know if such an organization (or group of individuals) exists? If not would anyone be interested in discussing how to get such a project started? Thanks, Joseph ========================= Joseph Puentes Clean@h2opodcast.com http://h2opodcast.com/vsse.html

Hello I'm wondering if this could be a genetically inherited condition. My great-grand-aunt was born in rural NSW in 1856. According to a later Police Gazette entry, she had a harelip. The last of her siblings died two hours after birth from 'Suffocation from deformity of mouth and retraction of tongue'. This was in 1864. >From details on her certificates, it seems to have been a home birth, without a doctor present but with two women assisting, one of whom may have been a midwife. I don't know of anyone else in the family who had a facial deformity, although it may have occurred. There is also no other clear evidence for infant deaths in this family, but certificates suggest that it could have happened. (There is a pattern of a daughter dying in infancy in each generation of my tree.) I found information on the net about Pierre Robin Syndrome. It is a congenital condition, although alcoholism may be an underlying factor. I'm just wondering if there may have been a connection between the sisters' problems? Regards, and Merry Christmas Richard

I found this which I think you might find useful. http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Hair-lip On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Richard via <medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com > wrote: > Hello > > I'm wondering if this could be a genetically inherited condition. > > My great-grand-aunt was born in rural NSW in 1856. According to a > later Police Gazette entry, she had a harelip. > > The last of her siblings died two hours after birth from 'Suffocation > from deformity of mouth and retraction of tongue'. This was in 1864. > >From details on her certificates, it seems to have been a home birth, > without a doctor present but with two women assisting, one of whom may > have been a midwife. > > I don't know of anyone else in the family who had a facial deformity, > although it may have occurred. There is also no other clear evidence > for infant deaths in this family, but certificates suggest that it > could have happened. (There is a pattern of a daughter dying in > infancy in each generation of my tree.) > > I found information on the net about Pierre Robin Syndrome. It is a > congenital condition, although alcoholism may be an underlying factor. > I'm just wondering if there may have been a connection between the > sisters' problems? > > Regards, and Merry Christmas > > Richard > _____________________________ > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information > regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice > of medicine in the past. > > Do not post information on living people. > > Do not seek or give medical advice. > > Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on > the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting > private information about yourself. > > === > > To contact the list admin send an email to: > MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com > > ==== > > > For list rules see: > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

The scanned copy indicates that this woman had a myocardial infarction ( heart attack) and fell and had a fractured femur as a result. Diane sent me a scanned copy that I could enlarge, and it was a low typical fracture of the femur, most likely near the hip joint. Unless you study the man's hand writing you would think that his "F" was a "T." Problem solved. Sue On 8/28/2014 10:34 AM, Diane Margrie-Sowden via wrote: > Hi there, PLEASE could you kindly explain what the second illness that this person died of please? > > > I know the first one but I can’t read the writing of the second one, sorry about that. > > > MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION > > TRACKUROD TERNUL???????????? Not very good a spelling this and I don’t know many medical terms sorry. > > > Diane > > > > > > > Sent from Windows Mail > _____________________________ > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. > > Do not post information on living people. > > Do not seek or give medical advice. > > Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. > > === > > To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com > > ==== > > > For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi there, PLEASE could you kindly explain what the second illness that this person died of please? I know the first one but I can’t read the writing of the second one, sorry about that. MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION TRACKUROD TERNUL???????????? Not very good a spelling this and I don’t know many medical terms sorry. Diane Sent from Windows Mail

What is the time period? Sue On 8/28/2014 10:34 AM, Diane Margrie-Sowden via wrote: > Hi there, PLEASE could you kindly explain what the second illness that this person died of please? > > > I know the first one but I can’t read the writing of the second one, sorry about that. > > > MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION > > TRACKUROD TERNUL???????????? Not very good a spelling this and I don’t know many medical terms sorry. > > > Diane > > > > > > > Sent from Windows Mail > _____________________________ > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. > > Do not post information on living people. > > Do not seek or give medical advice. > > Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. > > === > > To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com > > ==== > > > For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have a free-to-use, non-commercial website on the history of Dorset County Hospital from its Victorian beginnings to the point at which it became part of the UK's National Health Service in 1948. This month is the 173rd anniversary of the hospital opening its doors to patients. The site includes information about patients, staff and benefactors from unpublished and published sources including admission registers, newspaper reports, census returns, burial registers, professional journals, medical directories and the hospital's annual reports. This is very much a work in progress - new material is being added all the time. Please follow my Twitter account @historydch to keep up to date with progress. The website address is www.historydch.com Mark

These would be secondary bacterial infections such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pyogenes. Even in the recent influenza outbreaks 2011-2012 it is frequently the secondary bacterial infections that are the final straw resulting in death. The virus has a negative effect on the neutrophils, the white blood cells, that help fight infection so they are not as able to fight off the bacterial infection. Regards Helen -----Original Message----- From: medical-genealogy-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:medical-genealogy-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of JLA Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2014 8:56 AM To: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-GENEALOGY] Solving the Mystery Flu That Killed 50 Million People Growing up in Philadelphia I heard stories of how the dead were left to "pile up" because of 1918 flu. This article talks about secondary infections but doesn't mentioned what they would be. Pneumonia would be one but not sure of which other types of infections would be around. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/influenz a-philadelphia/ Joan On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:50 PM, suemaxwell <suemaxwell@comcast.net> wrote: > http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/16/277057530/research-shows-new-flu- viruses-often-arise-in-domestic-animals > Here is a very interesting article that gives a different view on > the subject. > > Sue > > > > > > > On 5/7/2014 12:14 PM, JLA wrote: >> My grandmother was born in 1911 so I suspect she would have been one >> of the young ones who escaped the flu. I guess that's something to be >> thankful for. >> >> J. Asche >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:56 PM, suemaxwell <suemaxwell@comcast.net> wrote: >>> This is the same epidemic that caused sleeping sickness, about which >>> is written in the book "Awakenings" by Oliver Sacks. It is a very >>> profound book. I would like to know what else may have contributed >>> to this flu epidemic. My grandmother was born in 1898, but I do not think she had it. >>> >>> Sue >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 5/7/2014 11:01 AM, Carol Botteron wrote: >>>> Researchers have wondered for decades why the 1918 flu disproportionately killed so many young people, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the answers are in the pattern of past flu infections. >>>> >>>> more at >>>> http://time.com/79209/solving-the-mystery-flu-that-killed-50-millio >>>> n-people/?hpt=hp_t3 >>>> >>>> _____________________________ >>>> Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. >>>> >>>> Do not post information on living people. >>>> >>>> Do not seek or give medical advice. >>>> >>>> Do not post your personal health issues. 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Growing up in Philadelphia I heard stories of how the dead were left to "pile up" because of 1918 flu. This article talks about secondary infections but doesn't mentioned what they would be. Pneumonia would be one but not sure of which other types of infections would be around. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/influenza-philadelphia/ Joan On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 5:50 PM, suemaxwell <suemaxwell@comcast.net> wrote: > http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/16/277057530/research-shows-new-flu-viruses-often-arise-in-domestic-animals > Here is a very interesting article that gives a different view on the > subject. > > Sue > > > > > > > On 5/7/2014 12:14 PM, JLA wrote: >> My grandmother was born in 1911 so I suspect she would have been one >> of the young ones who escaped the flu. I guess that's something to be >> thankful for. >> >> J. Asche >> >> >> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:56 PM, suemaxwell <suemaxwell@comcast.net> wrote: >>> This is the same epidemic that caused sleeping sickness, about which is >>> written in the book "Awakenings" by Oliver Sacks. It is a very profound >>> book. I would like to know what else may have contributed to this flu >>> epidemic. My grandmother was born in 1898, but I do not think she had it. >>> >>> Sue >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 5/7/2014 11:01 AM, Carol Botteron wrote: >>>> Researchers have wondered for decades why the 1918 flu disproportionately killed so many young people, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the answers are in the pattern of past flu infections. >>>> >>>> more at >>>> http://time.com/79209/solving-the-mystery-flu-that-killed-50-million-people/?hpt=hp_t3 >>>> >>>> _____________________________ >>>> Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. >>>> >>>> Do not post information on living people. >>>> >>>> Do not seek or give medical advice. >>>> >>>> Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. >>>> >>>> === >>>> >>>> To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com >>>> >>>> ==== >>>> >>>> >>>> For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html >>>> ------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>>> >>> _____________________________ >>> Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. >>> >>> Do not post information on living people. >>> >>> Do not seek or give medical advice. >>> >>> Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. >>> >>> === >>> >>> To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com >>> >>> ==== >>> >>> >>> For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> _____________________________ >> Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. >> >> Do not post information on living people. >> >> Do not seek or give medical advice. >> >> Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. 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A number of users are being bounced off of mailing lists because of technical reasons that I really don't understand, but if you get bounced off of any list you can resubscribe in digest mode which may slow down the number of times you are bounced off. To date, GMail seems unaffected, I don't know about Hotmail and Yahoo. But if you are fed up with your ISP address bouncing off try using a GMail account for list mail. It's free. ISP that I know of are AOL, Earthlink, and Comcast there are probably more. Joan Volunteer List Admin

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/16/277057530/research-shows-new-flu-viruses-often-arise-in-domestic-animals Here is a very interesting article that gives a different view on the subject. Sue On 5/7/2014 12:14 PM, JLA wrote: > My grandmother was born in 1911 so I suspect she would have been one > of the young ones who escaped the flu. I guess that's something to be > thankful for. > > J. Asche > > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:56 PM, suemaxwell <suemaxwell@comcast.net> wrote: >> This is the same epidemic that caused sleeping sickness, about which is >> written in the book "Awakenings" by Oliver Sacks. It is a very profound >> book. I would like to know what else may have contributed to this flu >> epidemic. My grandmother was born in 1898, but I do not think she had it. >> >> Sue >> >> >> >> >> >> On 5/7/2014 11:01 AM, Carol Botteron wrote: >>> Researchers have wondered for decades why the 1918 flu disproportionately killed so many young people, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the answers are in the pattern of past flu infections. >>> >>> more at >>> http://time.com/79209/solving-the-mystery-flu-that-killed-50-million-people/?hpt=hp_t3 >>> >>> _____________________________ >>> Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. >>> >>> Do not post information on living people. >>> >>> Do not seek or give medical advice. >>> >>> Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. >>> >>> === >>> >>> To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com >>> >>> ==== >>> >>> >>> For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >>> >> _____________________________ >> Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. >> >> Do not post information on living people. >> >> Do not seek or give medical advice. >> >> Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. >> >> === >> >> To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com >> >> ==== >> >> >> For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > _____________________________ > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. > > Do not post information on living people. > > Do not seek or give medical advice. > > Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. > > === > > To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com > > ==== > > > For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

My grandmother was born in 1911 so I suspect she would have been one of the young ones who escaped the flu. I guess that's something to be thankful for. J. Asche On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:56 PM, suemaxwell <suemaxwell@comcast.net> wrote: > This is the same epidemic that caused sleeping sickness, about which is > written in the book "Awakenings" by Oliver Sacks. It is a very profound > book. I would like to know what else may have contributed to this flu > epidemic. My grandmother was born in 1898, but I do not think she had it. > > Sue > > > > > > On 5/7/2014 11:01 AM, Carol Botteron wrote: >> Researchers have wondered for decades why the 1918 flu disproportionately killed so many young people, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the answers are in the pattern of past flu infections. >> >> more at >> http://time.com/79209/solving-the-mystery-flu-that-killed-50-million-people/?hpt=hp_t3 >> >> _____________________________ >> Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. >> >> Do not post information on living people. >> >> Do not seek or give medical advice. >> >> Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. >> >> === >> >> To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com >> >> ==== >> >> >> For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > _____________________________ > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. > > Do not post information on living people. > > Do not seek or give medical advice. > > Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. > > === > > To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com > > ==== > > > For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Researchers have wondered for decades why the 1918 flu disproportionately killed so many young people, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the answers are in the pattern of past flu infections. more at http://time.com/79209/solving-the-mystery-flu-that-killed-50-million-people/?hpt=hp_t3

This is the same epidemic that caused sleeping sickness, about which is written in the book "Awakenings" by Oliver Sacks. It is a very profound book. I would like to know what else may have contributed to this flu epidemic. My grandmother was born in 1898, but I do not think she had it. Sue On 5/7/2014 11:01 AM, Carol Botteron wrote: > Researchers have wondered for decades why the 1918 flu disproportionately killed so many young people, but a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests the answers are in the pattern of past flu infections. > > more at > http://time.com/79209/solving-the-mystery-flu-that-killed-50-million-people/?hpt=hp_t3 > > _____________________________ > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the practice of medicine in the past. > > Do not post information on living people. > > Do not seek or give medical advice. > > Do not post your personal health issues. This list has an open archive on the Internet which is open to anyone. Use common sense when posting private information about yourself. > > === > > To contact the list admin send an email to: MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-admin@rootsweb.com > > ==== > > > For list rules see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jasche45133/rules.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MEDICAL-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have set up a free-to-use, non-commercial website about the history of Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester, Dorset. The site covers the period from the hospital's beginnings in the 1840s to the late 1940s when it became part of the National Health Service. I am (slowly) transcribing the 19th century admission registers for the hospital - these are at the Dorset History Centre and appear to be otherwise unindexed/transcribed. This is a work in progress so if you wish to keep up with developments, please follow my twitter account @historydch for updates. I should stress that my site has no official connection with the modern Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. And despite this message seeming like an advert, I say again it is non-commercial and free to use (I can't work out a way of monetizing it!). The website address is _www.historydch.com_ (http://www.historydch.com) Many thanks.

On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, JLA wrote: > Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 02:21:08 > From: JLA <jasche45133@gmail.com> > Reply-To: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com > To: medical-genealogy@rootsweb.com, leduck@bellsouth.net > Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-GENEALOGY] Subjects for discussion. > > I'm sorry to anyone who is unhappy regarding the structure of this mailing list. > > I can not change the focus of this list -- RootsWeb prohibits admins > changing the topic of any list. RootsWeb approved the topic of this > list several years ago: > > Topic: A mailing list for the discussion and sharing of information > regarding our ancestors' medical histories, old diseases, and the > practice of medicine in the past. > > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Medical_Genealogy/MEDICAL-GENEALOGY.html > > However, you or anyone else can request a new mailing for another purpose. > > Hello. After about four weeks, and a couple of attempts, Rootsweb have refused the request. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................

http://books.google.com/books?id=NhoOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1012&lpg=PA1012&dq=%22Dr.+A.C.+Kellogg%22+clairvoyant+physician+in+Michigan&source=bl&ots=fIXO5NLtCX&sig=MJmSEni57KHiY4d0BXL52bLMd5I&hl=en&sa=X&ei=oU_LUoS3K9XpoASylYHYBQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Dr.%20A.C.%20Kellogg%22%20clairvoyant%20physician%20in%20Michigan&f=false Here is some information about Dr. A C Kellogg. Tells you exactly what he did. Sue

What would a clairvoyant physician have done, specifically in Massachusetts in the late 1800s? What problems would people bring to her, and what would she do to treat them? A cousin's ancestor was Mary Ann Moore Wentworth Hixon (born 1815 Castine, Maine, died 1899 Worcester, Mass., married Dwight Hixon who died in 1854). Reportedly she lived her last days as a clairvoyant physician in Worcester. I have done web searches but have not found much except various articles describing clairvoyant physicians as quacks, and a brief article about a Dr. Kellogg in Michigan who advertised that he could diagnose patients by mail. http://www.famhist.us/2011/07/07/1879-the-clairvoyant-physician/ Presumably a clairvoyant physician could also see patients in person, and sell medications etc.

Carol, At that time it could mean lots of things, I would think. Some people are naturally intuitive- maybe she was that way. Maybe she was practicing quackery, and maybe she was doing something worse than that.......... There is real, miraculous, healing in the world. But there are other negative forces at work, also. I would say that most anything could be applicable. Perhaps she practiced using herbs, or other natural methods. Maybe you could do some reading on what that might have meant at that time in that part of the country. Let us know what you learn- if anything!. Sue