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    Clarinetguy
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    Can anyone please identify a medical condition which is mentioned in a newspaper report of 1917 concerning a soldier? It says, "He has been in England for some months owing to pleurisy and pyrena." I have Googled 'pyrena' and come up with nothing medical. (I have checked the scan I took of this section of the newspaper; they may of course have made an error in their typesetting).

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    Could be pyrexia - this is mentioned a lot in the war diaries. Usually recorded as PUO (in the diaries I've seen) standing for Pyrexia of Unknown Origin ie high fever and they don't know the cause.
    Gill

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    That would fit I think. Thanks.

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    Could be pyaemia which is the formation of abscesses in internal organs, in this case probably his lungs
    which in those days would lead to blood poisoning.
    Pat

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    That might fit too. Whichever it is, the poor chap was rather ill.

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