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From: "Len Howard" <>
Subject: Re: [UPPER-CANADA] Bowel Consumption
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:18:13 -1000
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Aloha all,

Don't take Medical Diagnoses of the early times too seriously. My
great-great grandfather was a physician in Upper Canada in the early 1800s.
I have read the histories of the practice of medicine in that era. To die
of "Bowel Consumption" means they died of something related to the bowel.
Could have been cancer or infection, or even torsion and obstruction. They
did not do autopsies in anything but university teaching centers. Hope this
helps

Len Howard MD


-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Elaine Putnam
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 9:36 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [UPPER-CANADA] Bowel Consumption

I am thinking perhaps this is a form of
Colitis or bowel cancer or crohn's disease

Many diseases depending on the time period were simply covered by one or two

words

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [UPPER-CANADA] Bowel Consumption


> Well, I know what Consumption is...TB associated commonly with the lungs,
> but bowel consumption - that's a twist that I haven't seen before. I
> associate bowels with the intestines...
>
> Cliff. Johnston
> "May the best you've ever seen,
> Be the worst you'll ever see;"
> from A Scots Toast by Allan Ramsay
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robin" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [UPPER-CANADA] Bowel Consumption
>
>
>> Yes it is - look under the C's for Consumption.
>>
>> Robin
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Cliff. Johnston
>> Sent: January 31, 2007 2:00 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [UPPER-CANADA] Bowel Consumption
>>
>> Thanks! Got it bookmarked; however, the term isn't there..
>>
>> Cliff. Johnston
>>
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