Daily AncestorLupus
Lupus on an old record usually meant lupus vulgaris, tuberculosis of the skin, most often of the face, not the modern disease lupus.
Lupus is Latin for wolf. Lupus vulgaris causes painful lumpy sores, most often on the face around the nose, eyelids, lips, cheeks and ears.
IPUMS codes lupus with scrofula and tuberculosis of other organs in its scheme for the 1850 to 1880 mortality schedules. The separate disease now called lupus (lupus erythematosus) is not tuberculosis.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Cath. Moran, 46, F, W, Lupus
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