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From: Arthur Pye <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Translation from Latin for cause of death please?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 21:35:08 +0000
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In message
<>, Lesley
Baxendale <> writes
>Hi Listers,
>
>Can anyone tell me what MORBUS CORDIS was (as a cause of death)?
>
>My Paramedic daughter thinks it might be something to do with the valves in
>the heart - hence 'Heart Failure'.
>
>Whatever it was, it took 2 years to see off my great great grandmother Sarah
>CLARKE in 1887.
>
>Any help gratefully received.
>
>Lesley Baxendale
>Colwyn Bay, N Wales
>
>
Your daughter is correct.

From the Archaic Medical Terms site
http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm

Morbus cordis Means no more than heart disease. Probably used by doctors
when they did not know the exact cause of death but were sure it was
natural causes. May sometimes mean heart failure
--
Arthur Pye

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