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French/English Glossary
of Causes of Death and other Archaic Medical Terms
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French Term
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English
Translation
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Rachitisme
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Rachitis
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Rage
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Rabies
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Rhumatisme
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Rheumatism.
Example from a 1923
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Rhume
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Cold, catarrh
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Rogne
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Scabies
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Rosèola
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German measles
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Rougeole
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Measles.
Example from a 1927
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Rubéole |
Rubella, German measles. |
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Saignement
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Bleeding
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Scarlatine
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Scarlet fever, Scarlatina
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Scorbut
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Scurvy
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Scrofule |
Scrofula |
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Scrophules
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Scrofula
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Sénilité
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Senility, old age.
Example from a 1921
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Septicèmie
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Septicemia
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Spasme
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Spasms
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Squinancie
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Quinsy
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Strumes
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Struma
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Suette
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Sudor anglicus
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Sueur Anglaise
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Sudor anglicus
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Syncopé |
Syncope, Faint. |
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Syphilis |
Syphilis |
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Tac
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Influenza
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Tètanos
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Tetanus, lockjaw.
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Toux
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Cough
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Toux & Crachement
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Cough with Spitting.
Example from a 1921
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Toux Bleu
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Whooping cough in
France. [Nothnagel1902]
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Travail d'Enfant
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Confinement
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Trisme
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Trismus
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Tuberculose
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Tuberculosis
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Tuberculose des Os
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Tuberculosis
of the Bone.
Example from a 1921
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Tuberculose de
Poumons
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Pulmonary
Tuberculosis.
Example from a 1921
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Tuberculose
Pulmonaire
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Pulmonary
Tuberculosis.
Example from a 1926
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Tumeur
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Tumor
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Typhoide
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Typhoid
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Typhus
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Typhus, typhoid
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Typhus d'Europe
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Typhus
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Typhus Exanthematicus
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Epidemic typhus
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Ulcère
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Ulcer
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Urèthrite
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Gonorrhea
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Urémie
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Uremia.
Example from a 1928
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Varicelle
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Varicella, Chickenpox
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Variole
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Variola,
Smallpox
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Ventre Resserrè
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Constipation
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Vèrole
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Venereal disease, Syphilis
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Vérole Petite
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Smallpox
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Vèrolètte
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Chicken pox
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Viellesse
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Old age.
Example from a 1921
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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Vomissement
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Vomiting.
Example from a 1929
Death Certificate from New Brunswick, Canada:
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