Daily Ancestorlungsot
Lungsot is an old Swedish word for consumption, meaning tuberculosis of the lungs, often given as a cause of death in Swedish death books.
Lungsot is the wasting lung disease that English records call consumption. It is usually understood as pulmonary tuberculosis, though diagnoses were made by symptoms, so the label could cover other chest illnesses.
Nearby words in the same death books are tvinsot, a wasting from various causes, and bröstsjuka, chest illness or pneumonia. Treat all three as historical labels rather than diagnoses.
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