Sweden, Does anyone use description of death?

Question

Not really a question but I was wondering if anyone wanted a look up table of names of old Swedish reasons for death, cross referenced to modern English names?

I found a list that seemed nice.

http://www.hhogman.se/names-of-diseases-sweden.htm

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KalleMP

Comments

That's an exceptionally helpful website. I particularly like their pages on name and spelling reforms.

Answer 1

Hello! Thank you for sharing this website. FamilySearch.org has a great page with Swedish reasons for death. Here is a link to all things Swedish:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Sweden_Genealogy

Here is the link to Swedish words including death reasons:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Swedish_Genealogical_Word_List

Thank you!

Missy 

Answer 2

You could also check if you can find what you are looking for here; Sjukdomar och dödsorsaker / Illnesses and causes of death in Sweden 

Comments

Maggie,

Thank you for sharing the word list on WikiTree! I am ashamed to say that I did not know it existed. 

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I have a special hobby horse among causes of death, which is moderpassion or modren or similar. It is often made into a synonym of hysteria, which I find totally inappropriate - a connection made by, I think, 19th century medicine between psychosomatic and mental disorders in women and the uterus.

What is recorded as moderpassion in the old church records will be any of the potentially lethal disorders of the female reproductive system that could affect a woman, apart from deaths directly related to child birth, for which there were other terms available.

Edit: Hans Högman does not list moderpassion at all (I think) but the FamilySearch list has moderpassion = hysterical fits.