[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Baby illness term

[Jutta Dennerlein]

Hi docs!

please also see the article "The sacred disease at Iłów" and Annegret 
Krause's valuable comment on:
http://www.upstreamvistula.org/Mysteries/Myst_Epilepsy.htm

Kind regards and Happy Easter!

Jutta Dennerlein
www.upstreamvistula.org

Günther Böhm wrote:
> Otto schrieb:
>   
>> Lack of calcium and vitamin D on the mother's behalf affecting the  
>> child and resulting in mortality is an interesting scenario.
>> I am aware of the reproductive rate of our colonists and also am aware  
>> of the infant mortality rate which could reach 50% in the first two  
>> years depending on the stability of their living conditions.
>>
>> I am curious as to how many of the infant deaths per percent of the  
>> births were attributed to calcium and vitamin D deficiency? Was the  
>> vitamin D deficiency a common malady among the colonists as a whole?  
>> Or was it a rare condition?  I know there were many deaths of infants  
>> due to the complexity of life and the lack of medical understanding.  
>> It is of interest to me to categorize frequency of occurrence of each  
>> malady to be able to mentally visualize a communities day to day life.
>>
>> It would be helpful if Rose-Marie qualified the frequency of the  
>> births of those three children. Were they born one year apart?
>>     
>
> Otto,
> of course there were lots of reasons for the high infant mortality with 
> epidemic diseases such as pertussis, mumps, diphtheria, rubella and 
> measles playing a substantial role. But "Krämpfe" or "Frais" were 
> different. In many families by half of the children or even more died of 
> "Frais". I found this phenomenon in an ancestral branch where food 
> supply was not a major problem but the pregnancies really happened 
> annually. It was accepted like a Scourge of God and the next son or 
> daughter got the name of the deceased one.
>
> Günther
>
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