<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> As an "older" nurse... I once heard an even "older" doctor use this term referring to a parasitic infection, affecting the lungs and pleural cavity.<BR><BR> <DIV><FONT color=#1f497d size=3 face=Garamond>Cyndi Henry</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#1f497d size=3 face=Garamond>Mountain Genealogists</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#1f497d size=3 face="Comic Sans MS"></FONT> </DIV><BR><BR><BR>  <P><BR> > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 00:49:49 -0500<BR>> To: apgpubliclist@apgen.org<BR>> From: family@jgrussell.com<BR>> Subject: [APG Public List] Cause of death<BR>> <BR>> I'm looking at a 1911 death certificate in Texas for a man whose <BR>> doctor had treated him from May until his death in July and wrote the <BR>> cause of death as "hymenia." That's a new one for me. Can anyone <BR>> point me in the direction of a definition? The closest I can come is <BR>> possible poisoning from some sort of fungus.<BR>> <BR>> Thanks.<BR>> <BR>> -- Judy<BR>> <BR> </body> </html>