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Old 13-08-2010, 20:53   #4
Margaret Pilkington
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re: World War 1 Medical Terms

P.U.O. is the abbreviation for Pyrexia of Unknown Origin......so this soldier woould have had a raging temperature with no obvious cause for it......there would be no suppurating wound/infection visible, yet he would have had a regularly raised temperature.
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