Help with handwriting, please.

Daft Bat

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Attached are a couple of snips of Trooper Wiliiam James MILSTED's discharge papers of 1873.

I would appreciate any help with reading the handwritten scrawl.

Thank you. :)

William Milsted 1.JPG
William Milsted 2.JPG
 
First one could be:-
Phthisis Pulmonalis

Symptoms first set in in December 1872. The disease has not been aggravated by climate or experience in or by the service.
 
An attempt at the second:-
Considerable ? Has spitting of blood frequently and is getting weaker. Both lungs being in a diseased state. The disability is permanent. He will be able to contribute to his own support to a certain extent.
The disease has been aggravated by intemperance.

Will carry on working on the missing word.
 
Considerable emaciation. Has spitting of blood frequently and is getting weaker, etc etc.

Poor chap sounded quite unwell.
 
Considerable emaciation. Has spitting of blood frequently and is getting weaker, etc etc.

Poor chap sounded quite unwell.

You all probably know this but I've learned something new - "Emaciation" - a wasting away of body mass due to disease or starvation.

Now I know why my late dad lost so much weight prior to his death - he couldn't swallow food.
 
Thanks, guys - that is very helpful. :)

(I just knew that I could rely on you. ;) )
 
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