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From: "George W. Durman" <>
Subject: Re: Old Term Definitions
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 00:54:13 -0500


At 07:12 PM 3/5/99 , John Wayland wrote:
>
>I hate to start another subject line that is off-center with genealogy
>line
>research, but if you can get from the same source the meaning of old
>medical terms, I would appreciate it, and others might also. For
>instance,
>I just read that a relative had died of "dropsy" and don't know for sure
>what this is. Would that possibly be a stroke? I believe that
>"consumption" was tuberculosis, but it may have applied to lung cancer
>also, since they had no knowledge of germs back then.

Here is one site for "Outdated Medical Terms":

http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/diseases.html

Kind of on the same subject, here are a couple more:

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3955/jobs.html Kraig Ruckel's page on
Colonial Occupational Titles. If you run across occupations in your
research, such as "Cordwainer", "Culler", or "Headborough", and don't know
what they mean, this is the page to check!

http://home.navisoft.com/scrolls/dictinry.htm German Genealogical
Dictionaries: Old German Professions, Medical Terms & Common Causes of
Death.

I'm sure others will have additional links.

>I'm sure that George would rather have just one comprehensive post like
>yours, rather than a general discussion that ties up the list and loads
>up
>the archives.

Well, since so many will have different sites for these type links, it's
OK for anyone to post their contributions. No problem.

Thanks John,
SgtGeorge
George W. Durman
GERMANNA_COLONIES List Administrator

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