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Title: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: okkool on Sunday 20 June 21 17:53 BST (UK)
The entry I am interested in starts with Belfast   297     75/7/1 -75/7/13    

It is described as a "constituitional debility" so it isn't an injury.   
Thanks Brian
Title: Re: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: shanreagh on Sunday 20 June 21 19:24 BST (UK)
What are the column headings please? The ones where it starts Inf and those to the immediate right. 
Title: Re: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: okkool on Sunday 20 June 21 20:39 BST (UK)
Here are the column headings

Brian

Title: Re: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: philipsearching on Sunday 20 June 21 20:40 BST (UK)
Stating the obvious, it's abbreviated.  Possibly:
Inf - Infarction?
Calc(?) - ?
Febric - Febricula - "a slight and transient fever" according to Merriam-Webster.

Philip
Title: Re: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: mckha489 on Sunday 20 June 21 22:21 BST (UK)
Inf. Could also be Infection or Inferior
If it is Febric. Then I would have thought Infection most likely.
But why that would be a constitutional debility I do not know. 

Does the treatment read Formentation?   
Title: Re: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: philipsearching on Monday 21 June 21 13:36 BST (UK)
Quote from: Mckha489 on Sunday 20 June 21 22:21 BST (UK)
Inf. Could also be Infection or Inferior
If it is Febric. Then I would have thought Infection most likely.
But why that would be a constitutional debility I do not know. 

Does the treatment read Formentation?

I agree that infection is more likely.  Infection of the (calc?) leading to fever, perhaps.  If only I could figure out the missing word!

Philip
Title: Re: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: okkool on Monday 21 June 21 17:48 BST (UK)
Thanks Philip

That makes sense. I wonder if the missing word is "canker". A infected cold sore (canker) that was treated with a poultice.

Brian
Title: Re: disease and treatment on 1875 uk army dragoon medical record
Post by: John915 on Monday 21 June 21 18:44 BST (UK)
Good evening

Quote from: Mckha489 on Sunday 20 June 21 22:21 BST (UK)

But why that would be a constitutional debility I do not know. 

Its not, that is the cause which in this case can be read as "inherent weakness". So the soldier in question had a pre disposition which led to the aquiring of the illness/disease.

John915