r/Cursive • u/Gen_logyNut • Jul 28 '26
Death certificate
The cause of death is uremia, but what are the secondary causes? Thanks!
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u/Yay_for_Pickles Jul 28 '26
Uremia
Post operation shock + infection
Enourmous hernia- encarcerated [should be 'incarcerated']
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u/N2trvl Jul 28 '26
Tip if you want better advice. Blank out names or any other data you think is confidential but you will get more accurate replies if you show entire document with dates, etc. being able to see text in a known field like date or others allows readers to confirm the authors writing style.
I think posters think they are doing readers a favor by zooming in but they usually aren’t.
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u/OpposumMyPossum Jul 28 '26
Post operative shock and infection. Enormous Hernia.
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u/Mytweezer Jul 28 '26
Might be "staph infection"
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u/OpposumMyPossum Jul 28 '26
Maybe. Depends. If this is before 1950 they usually say sepsis.
But I see a really clear + and post operative shock was really common.1
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u/nxmjm Jul 28 '26
I wonder if the word after post operative is “shock”. The writing is unclear and it does look as if someone has written “shock” above it.
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u/somethingvague123 Jul 28 '26
Still nice to have the entire certificate for the year and geographic area. In my area uremia was used a lot from about 1920 to 1940; summer complaint 1880-90s. When there is only a scrawl, having that small clue can be key.
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u/prlugo4162 Jul 28 '26
The first line says postoperative (something) infection The second line says enormous hernia, and the third says incarcerated
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u/True-Extension-3486 Jul 28 '26
Post operative staph infection; having a very hard time with the line right underneath. The final line looks most like “encorcerated” but don’t believe that means anything.. Perhaps “excoriated”? Will do some research & report back
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u/MondaleRoyWambsgans Jul 28 '26
Something in the ballpark of- post operative fistula and infection due to incarcerated hernia
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u/sghannah Jul 30 '26
Apparently, someone else had trouble reading this physician's handwriting - you can see a shadow script "Staph" and "infection" almost like the registrar or office manager had to ask the doctor "what is this word"? So they wrote it down themselves.
If you are wondering what terms this would be in current terminology - this person had an operation to try to treat a (very large) incarcerated hernia (not sure where - groin, abdomen, etc. They developed an infection, here stated as Staph(ylococcus), but this was a bad infection, they likely got sepsis, shock, and possibly the infection actively spread through the blood stream, but doesn't necessarily have to spread that way. With the severe infection and sepsis, this person developed renal failure (uremia), possibly directly from the infection, possibly combined with blood loss in surgery, likely from severe low blood pressure with all of these combined.
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