Can anyone decipher this death certificate?

[CromwellWolf]

This is what is written under "cause of death" on this death certificate. Can anyone work out what the first word might say? The rest of the certificate is clear and easy to read, but this one word seems completely unintelligible!
Thank you in advance for your help :)

Psychosis?

Phthisis.

It's tuberculosis.

Phthisis, TB.

I see it as phthisis as well like others have said.

I also think Phthisis - I found it on this list: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/England,Diseases_and_Causes_of_Death-_International_Institute

That's sad. How old were they?

Thank you so much! I've been trying to work that out for ages! How sad- he was 36. It intrigued me because I first came across this relative in a newspaper, in the death announcements. He was listed and directly above him, his daughter was also listed. She died the day before him, but they didn't die in the same place. I wondered what their causes of death were (and if they were linked e.g. an accident) and so ordered the death certificates and it says he was with his daughter when she died. I wondered if he may have died of suicide/grief from losing his daughter due to how close the dates were (and he was evidently well enough to be out and about the previous day!) but clearly not. Thank you so much for helping me solve the mystery! :)

Now that you've found this one, consider that other deaths in the immediate family might also be TB.

Sometime TB was contracted in an obvious location out of the home such as a barracks, jail, long cramped period at sea, etc.

But it was very often caught in the

Gosh, what a x-post.

Don't know where the rest of my post went, but it was to say that TB was often caught in the home, and tubercular families have a classic, dreadful pattern.

The young children die, one by one, at intervals of 6 months to 2 years; the parents then die in their 20s or early 30s, leaving any surviving children orphans.

A couple of the children may make it to adulthood, marry, have their own children... and the whole horrible merry-go-round goes round again.

How sad! Just shows how hard times were back then and how far we've come medically-speaking. Thank you for all of your help :)