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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: fridayschild on Monday 25 July 16 20:30 BST (UK)
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Could someone please help to decipher the handwriting on a soldiers medical record? It refers to a soldier who was being treated for syphilis.
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Not easy handwriting, is it!
Here's my best try:
Hair loss corona. Ing and ?? adenitis. Skin
nil. M plaques tonsils. S palida found. Wass++ 7.10.18
(I can't read the next line, I suspect it refers to treatment) 1.10.18-16.10.18
Lesions healed Transferred Plymouth for further
treatment.
I can't read the final part either, in fainter ink; I wonder if this refers to further treatment?
"Translating" this, he was showing signs of secondary syphilis with hair loss, swollen glands in the inguinal (groin) region + somewhere else and patches in his mouth (tonsils), but no skin rash. The syphilis bacterium, (treponema pallidum) was found and the Wassermann reaction (a blood test for syphilis) was positive.
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Thankyou Annie. :) The Soldier in question James Henry Hough was admitted to Whittingham Mental Institution in April 1925 and died there 6 months later and having read that he was suffering from Syphilis I wondered if that was the reason for his admission. Of course unless I get a copy of his death certificate I won't know for sure.