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Old Parish Registers - Cause of Death

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Old Parish Registers - Cause of Death

This list of medical terms was collected from various 18th and 19th century sources including the Old Parish Registers. There are several blanks where the author, the late James T Mearns, was unable to find a satisfactory definition.

It was published in the ‘Aberdeen and North-East Scotland Family History Society journal', no 73 (November 1999), pp 33-5.

It has been reproduced on our website as a 52 kilobyte file in pdf format by kind permission of the Aberdeen and North-East Scotland Family History Society.