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Sunday, 25 October 2009 13:31

Here are some excellent resources elsewhere online for your pestilence information needs:

1. Antiquus Morbus

You Go, Rudy! This site offers tons of information on historic diseases, bizarre causes of death, and downright strange information found on early death certificates. Be sure to look for such oddities as the "horrors," "Woodness," and "Pyæmia."

Plain link is: http://www.antiquusmorbus.com/

2. Colonial Diseases & Cures

Diseases and illnesses from the Colonial era. Plain link is: http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sam/disease.html



3. Forgotten Medical Cures

Take a look at this and be happy we live today. These are the elixers, combinations, and mixtures used in attempt to "cure" sicknesses long ago.

Plain link is: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/8929/cures.html



4. Dee's Guide!

Here is another site offering archaic translation when it comes to historic afflictions.

Plain link is: http://www.kentuckianagenealogy.org/guide/help/disease.html



5. Genealogy.com- Outdated Medical Terminology

Page for information on what it meant and what it was.

Plain link is: http://www.genealogy.com/00000014.html?cj=1&o_xid=0001029688&o_lid=0001029688


6. Nan's Old Disease Names and their Modern Meanings

Extensive list of diseases and illnesses of long ago with contemporary meanings.

Plain link is: http://www3.nb.sympatico.ca/pebbles2/tools.html#disease



7. Online Archive of American Folk Medicine

This searchable site is operated through UCLA.

Plain link is: http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/index.html



8. Quarantine Deaths at Ellis Island

Dedicated to those individuals who died while in quarantine at Ellis Island.

Plain link is: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~quarantine/



9. Abandoned Asylum

Here is a site with extensive information on asylums. Site features information, news, books, and other memorabilia.

Plain link is: http://www.abandonedasylum.com/




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