Posted by Larry Hoover on November 24, 2008, at 9:12:20
In reply to What is this?, posted by Midnightblue on November 24, 2008, at 0:59:41
> Looking at a death certificate from the 1920s. She was in a hospital for the insane. She also had TB, but her first cause of death was
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> taxae---a. Those are the only letters I can read. Is this a mental health diagnosis?
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> MBI looked everywhere I could think of, but I can't find a match. It could be an archaic term, or perhaps it's actually toxaemia? Before antibiotics, sepsis/blood poisoning was a very common diagnosis.
Regards,
Lar
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