Not in the house, but able to be IM'd. I forwarded the death certificate scan to my niece (an internist, and not into genealogy). At first she thought it was something else (cardiac dextro position--a valid diagnosis), but that didn't really make sense to her. Then she decided on "cardiac decompensation". It's not a diagnosis she can use now, but she googled death certificates from around 1929, and found some listing that as the cause of death. She said heart failure and kidney failure go hand-in-hand, so it makes sense with the primary cause of death. The difficulty was that the doctor separated the 2nd word. I hope this helps. Christine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joseph Martin" <illinoisgenie@gmail.com> To: MIWAYNE@rootsweb.com, "Joseph Martin" <illinoisgenie@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:56:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [MIWAYNE] Help: Medical Term Is there a doctor in the house?? I have a death certificate which indicates the cause of death was chronic interstitial nephritis. I know what that is. The contributory cause looks like "cardiac dumnin pussition," but I am sure that is a correct spelling. Could anyone help with what the seconday cause should be? Thank you. Joseph Martin Romeoville, Illinois -- "Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does!" ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MIWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Thank you, Chris. This is wonderful. And please thank your niece for me. Joseph On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Chris Bauman <chris.bauman@comcast.net>wrote: > Not in the house, but able to be IM'd. I forwarded the death certificate > scan to my niece (an internist, and not into genealogy). At first she > thought it was something else (cardiac dextro position--a valid diagnosis), > but that didn't really make sense to her. Then she decided on "cardiac > decompensation". It's not a diagnosis she can use now, but she googled death > certificates from around 1929, and found some listing that as the cause of > death. She said heart failure and kidney failure go hand-in-hand, so it > makes sense with the primary cause of death. > > The difficulty was that the doctor separated the 2nd word. I hope this > helps. > > Christine > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joseph Martin" <illinoisgenie@gmail.com> > To: MIWAYNE@rootsweb.com, "Joseph Martin" <illinoisgenie@gmail.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 12:56:36 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern > Subject: [MIWAYNE] Help: Medical Term > > Is there a doctor in the house?? > > I have a death certificate which indicates the cause of death was chronic > interstitial nephritis. I know what that is. > > The contributory cause looks like "cardiac dumnin pussition," but I am sure > that is a correct spelling. > > Could anyone help with what the seconday cause should be? > > Thank you. > > Joseph Martin > Romeoville, Illinois > > -- > "Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does!" > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MIWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- "Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does!"