39 Casualty Clearing Station, Italy, Bertie Hay, 18 KRRC: Help reading entries, please.

[rolt968]

This is the entry for Bertie Hay, 18 King's Royal Rifle Corps in the Operations Log/Register/Ledger of 39 Casualty Clearing Station:

I would grateful if someone could decipher some of the words in the last column:

I so far I have worked out "Comp[ound] fracture R[ight] femur ?? ?? comminuted. Gas Gangrene. Pulseless. Transfused ?? Glycerine and? saline. No response. Thomas splint. ???."

Burnham was the name of the surgeon. The next column is headed "Anaesthetic". I am guessing that because of the size of the column it refers to the anaesthetic rather than the anaesthetist.

THank you in advance.

RM

Edited 14 March , 2023 by rolt968

[trooper23]

I read this as:

Internal Condyle intracapsular ?? 

Comp (ound) fracture R(ight) Femur involving (the) Trochanter

Comminuted   Gas gangrene Transfused

(?? Think its shorthand for specific volume (possibly one unit) transfused of ) glycerine and saline - no response Thomas Splint

Eusol 

[alf mcm]

Word after Right Femur is 'gt', short for 'greater'.

Regards,

Alf McM

[rolt968]

30 minutes ago, trooper23 said:

I read this as:

Internal Condyle intracapsular ?? 

Comp (ound) fracture R(ight) Femur involving (the) Trochanter

Comminuted   Gas gangrene Transfused

(?? Think its shorthand for specific volume (possibly one unit) transfused of ) glycerine and saline - no response Thomas Splint

Eusol 

 

18 minutes ago, alf mcm said:

Word after Right Femur is 'gt', short for 'greater'.

Regards,

Alf McM

Thank you both!

He seems to have been the only fatal casualty in 18 KRRC while they were in Italy.

RM

[trooper23]

Not surprised he was a fatality - gas gangrene of an open hip fracture is going to carry you off PDQ