![[Product Image]](images/fhp-003.jpg) A Dictionary of Medical & Related
Terms
For the Family Historian
By Joan E. Grundy. 90 pages. ISBN 0-9553450-0-6
Joan Grundy has forty years' experience as a midwife and practice nurse. During
thirty of these years, she has researched her own family history and has been involved
with several family history societies. Her dictionary is designed to help fellow
family historians to understand medical terms that appear in parish registers, on
death certificates, and other 18th and 19th century sources.
The observations of early medical men were particularly thorough as they tried
to determine the cause of diseases. They listed every symptom the patients described
and compared them with their colleagues' cases. However, despite being very good
at recognising symptoms they had litlle understanding of the causes and had relatively
few effective treatments to offer.
For many of the diseases described in this dictionary, Joan has given an outline
of the symptoms and sometimes gory ailments of our ancestors. Flesh is put on the
bones of our forebears and provides an insight into their lives, social conditions
and deaths.
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