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Grandfathers milaria from Gallipoli and Salonika


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I have been trying to work out what this page is all about on my grandfather James Connell's service record. Obviously something was tested in a laboratory but I can't read it properly. I do know he was a malaria case and at the very end of the war couldn't carry a pack due to bad acne and was transferred from the Royal Munster Fusiliers to the ASC. Is there a connection between malaria and acne? Also I have read quinine that was used to treat malaria can have an effect on any TB treatments. He died of TB in 1923.

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Cultures made from the specimen above and good growth of Staphylococcus Aureus [Golden Staph]. Enclosed please find autogenous vaccine. Each cc contains 1,000 million organisms; minimum dose ?/?0 of a cc = 200 million [organisms?]

 

So it sounds like a skin infection?

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Thank you for that Bardess, I couldn't make it all out, he did suffer from bad acne on his back and it says acne on the page too. Strangely so did I in my 20s!

Thanks again,

Paul

 

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