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Are there other samples of the person's writing that might be used to help decipher the writing in the image you displayed? Can you give a link? (P.S. Well done getting that image.)
Bob K31416 (
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02:23, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
But just to add one more level of confusion: This page is, I think, a collation of individual death records, because that book you cite refers to "Record of Death No. 88115, Commonwealth of Massachusetts", so even this is a transcription of whatever the doctor wrote on the death certificate.
--jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 02:52, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Just a stab in the dark here but could it be referring to malnourishment? The word alimony was in my head so I mixed it with Alhimenia and found
alimonia, which I guess could be used to refer to a person's nourishment. Maybe the document writer couldn't spell in Latin? I don't know Latin, this was just a wild thought that crossed my mind.
Zindor (
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01:14, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Can we get a link to the image this is a clipping of? Comparison with letter shapes in recognizable words may help in deciphering. Are there more instances of undotted i's? Of k's with wide open legs? And so on. --
Lambiam11:33, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
To me it reads as “albumenia.” The term “albuminia” or sometimes “albumenia” shows up in some Google Books results from the right time period. Just from context, it seems to mean
albuminuria. —
Amble (
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16:16, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Lots of good ideas but so far, identification of the disease seems uncertain. From my analysis of the letters, it doesn't look like "alhimenia". The h doesn't look like other h's on the page and what is supposed to be the first i is not dotted, which the writer has done consistently with the other i's on the page. (P.S. In case anyone is curious, this is related to the article
Thomas Cardozo.)
Bob K31416 (
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23:16, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
There are several examples of "bu" in birthplaces that end with "-bury" or "-burgh". (See the parental birthplace column on the facing page.) This is a good match to the supposed "hi" or "alhimenia". So our word starts with "albu-". The rest of the letters are clear, I think, so that gives "albumenia." --
Amble (
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01:58, 10 February 2021 (UTC)reply
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Are there other samples of the person's writing that might be used to help decipher the writing in the image you displayed? Can you give a link? (P.S. Well done getting that image.)
Bob K31416 (
talk)
02:23, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
But just to add one more level of confusion: This page is, I think, a collation of individual death records, because that book you cite refers to "Record of Death No. 88115, Commonwealth of Massachusetts", so even this is a transcription of whatever the doctor wrote on the death certificate.
--jpgordon𝄢𝄆 𝄐𝄇 02:52, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Just a stab in the dark here but could it be referring to malnourishment? The word alimony was in my head so I mixed it with Alhimenia and found
alimonia, which I guess could be used to refer to a person's nourishment. Maybe the document writer couldn't spell in Latin? I don't know Latin, this was just a wild thought that crossed my mind.
Zindor (
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01:14, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Can we get a link to the image this is a clipping of? Comparison with letter shapes in recognizable words may help in deciphering. Are there more instances of undotted i's? Of k's with wide open legs? And so on. --
Lambiam11:33, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
To me it reads as “albumenia.” The term “albuminia” or sometimes “albumenia” shows up in some Google Books results from the right time period. Just from context, it seems to mean
albuminuria. —
Amble (
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16:16, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
Lots of good ideas but so far, identification of the disease seems uncertain. From my analysis of the letters, it doesn't look like "alhimenia". The h doesn't look like other h's on the page and what is supposed to be the first i is not dotted, which the writer has done consistently with the other i's on the page. (P.S. In case anyone is curious, this is related to the article
Thomas Cardozo.)
Bob K31416 (
talk)
23:16, 9 February 2021 (UTC)reply
There are several examples of "bu" in birthplaces that end with "-bury" or "-burgh". (See the parental birthplace column on the facing page.) This is a good match to the supposed "hi" or "alhimenia". So our word starts with "albu-". The rest of the letters are clear, I think, so that gives "albumenia." --
Amble (
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01:58, 10 February 2021 (UTC)reply