Thank you so much! Yes, I see how the other letters in other words are consistent with "arteriosclerosis". Here's a sentence about her: "Though not a practical nurse, she aided Dr. Armstrong when the neighborhood women had their babies at home, and then brought hot chocolate to the recuperating mothers."
Can I lean on your expertise one more time? I think this one should be easier. This is my great great grandfather. Travelled by boat from Michigan to Massachusetts in 1910 (I didn't know this was possible). I just can't read one word:
"acute <what -is-this-word> of heart"
"paraplegia from cerebral thrombosis"