Daily AncestorStrangury
Strangury meant painful, straining urination a few drops at a time, a symptom of bladder stone, gravel or other urinary disease.
The word comes through Latin from Greek for a drop squeezed out and urine. Webster's 1913 defines strangury as a painful discharge of urine, drop by drop, from spasm of the muscles.
Strangury is a symptom rather than a disease. On an old record it points to trouble in the bladder or urinary passages, such as stone or gravel.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Elias Rupp, 69, M, W, Farmer, Strangury
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