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General => Armed Forces => World War One => Topic started by: alison300 on Thursday 14 June 18 20:00 BST (UK)
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Can anyone recommend a website that will help with medical abbreviations?
Am researching a number of soliders, one of which if L/Cpl. 3745 Frederick Thomas COX of the HAC who received a shrapnel wound to his face and arm. He was admitted to 22 General Hospital but i can't read some of the text. Thank you.
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Are you able to make a scan of the document and post it on the handwriting deciphering board?? Lots of clever people on there that may well be able to help you with this. 👍👍😄
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As Jaybel says, it would be best if you put up a snip on the handwriting board. However, if you google, there are many such listings.
e.g.
https://www.medicinenet.com/common_medical_abbreviations_and_terms/article.htm#c_-_medical_abbreviations
https://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/view/Tabers-Dictionary/767492/all/Medical_Abbreviations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_medical_abbreviations
........................etc.
If I don't know, I usually google the specific one.
Gadget
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thank you both and sorry for the delay; i'm struggling to attach in the right format.
i'm interested in the sentence "arrived …" and also "dental … "
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Not sure of the first one yet but it says Dental caries - i.e. decayed teeth.
Gadget
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"Arrived" sentence could be No.8 Infantry Base Depot. The phrase Class A means that the soldier was fit for service.
Have a read here: http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/other-aspects-of-order-of-battle/infantry-base-depots-in-france-1914-1918/
RRTB
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Thank you Gadget and RRTB. Its so difficult reading the handwriting let alone working out Army terms etc. What I find sad is that he had already been admitted to a General Hospital in January 1917 for a shrapnel found to his face and arm so must have been fairly badly wounded. Then after this dental treatment was sent back to the front. On 2.5.1917 he went back to hospital in Etaples for ?DYO? and Myalgia before being killed in October 1917. Many thanks.
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Myalgia is mentioned in the second paragraph of this reference: http://www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/medical-aspects/
If you could post a picture of the ?DYO? you've quoted we might be able to help you work out what it is.
RRTB
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Thanks RRTB - see attached.
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Hello
I suspect that 'G.S.W Face & Arm' is 'Gun Shot Wound'.
Dental Caries are teeth Cavities and as Gadget has mentioned - tooth decay.
Mark
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Thanks Mark. I guess "DYO" is actually IBD?.
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Going by other writing on that form, I think the top line reads "Officer Commanding 24 General Hospital" (at Etaples) followed by the following possibilities:
NYD: Not Yet Discharged or Not Yet Diagnosed.
I would tend towards "Not Yet Discharged" because the next entry shows a different venue than the General Hospital, but that line shows "Myalgia" which is obviously the diagnosis so maybe Not Yet Diagnosed is equally possible!
6 Con Depot is a Convalescent Depot which was at Etaples.
I found this piece of information on another website:
"Divisional rest stations began to be established in France in early 1915. Their purpose was to look after sick and lightly wounded. A man would usually stayed no more than about ten days at one before being returned to his unit.
Convalescent depots or camps looked after those who had been discharged from hospital but were not yet fully fit. The average stay was some 3 weeks. A man would then be sent to a base depot prior to being returned to his unit."
RRTB
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Thanks again RRTB. You've given me lots of info and plenty to think about.