Historic Causes of Death – Family History and Other Obsessions

This interesting blog post from Newspapers.com explains what some historical causes of death would be equivalent to in modern language – https://blog.newspapers.com/historic-causes-of-death-and-modern-equivalents/. I know I’ve seen some apoplexies and dropsy on my ancestors’ death certificates.

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