Daily AncestorDyspepsia
Dyspepsia means indigestion, stomach pain and discomfort after eating; as a cause of death it hid some more serious stomach or bowel disease.
Dyspepsia is the medical word for indigestion: pain, heartburn, nausea and a feeling of fullness after meals.
Indigestion alone rarely kills, so dyspepsia as a cause of death may cover a more serious stomach or bowel disease that the doctor could not identify.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Abner Swift, 58, M, W, Married, Mass., November, Dyspepsia, 400 days
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