Daily AncestorHemorrhage of the lungs
Hemorrhage of the lungs meant coughing up blood from the lungs, a sign rather than a disease, and very often the end of consumption.
The medical word is hemoptysis. Tuberculosis was the usual cause in the 1800s, but pneumonia, lung tumors and heart disease could also cause it.
When a young adult died of hemorrhage of the lungs, consumption is the likely background, especially if other family members died of it.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Jas. Price, 27, M, W, May, Hemorrhage of lungs
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