LIVES OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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FEVER

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• 1241 George Dunn, 8th Hussars, died of "Feb. C.C."

Note [PB]:

* "Common continuous fever" (also abbreviated f.c.c.) was notoriously catch-all and unspecific - "which means what?", wrote Florence Nightingale scathingly in her Notes on the Health of the British Army. According to Nightingale, it was of no diagnostic (or statistical) value, typically conflating fevers associated with many different conditions, among them what was then called hospital or camp fever (which the French called "fievre typhoide"), pneumonia, and tuberculosis [pp 852-3]. See notes on Fever.

[Quick search for "c.c." yielded:

493 James LEAREY.

847 Francis DICKINSON.

1003 George SMITH. (1st)

1893 James BUSHELL.

1798 Charles DUTTON.

979 Thomas HANRAHAN.

493 James LEAREY.

Walter Digby SEYMOUR.

Internmittent fever

Presumably "Continuous Fever" is in contrast to "Intermittent Fever", which a number of men are said to have suffered and often died from:

e.g. 1115 Henry Hugh JAMES.

Edward PHILLIPS.

1303 Thomas MAYES.

727 Charles MILNE.

1077 Robert NICHOL.

908 Joseph Henry PICKLES.

1177 James William WIGHTMAN's father?

1295 Caleb WYATT.

Crimean fever

William Affleck KING 4LD recovered from "Crimean fever". Meaning? My note says "presumably the disease now known as Brucellosis". True?

Henry Fraser DIMSDALE - died.

1337. Robert MARTIN - survived.

Typhus fever

1440. George CROYDON - survived

Lancelot ARMSTRONG - survived

954 William GARLAND - died