Medical journal of HMS Abergavenny by George Brown from 26 May to 6 November 1797....

ADM 101/80/2A/2

[1797-1798]

Medical journal of HMS Abergavenny by George Brown from 26 May to 6 November 1797. During this time this guard ship was stationed at Port au Prince, West Indies.

[Note: ADM 101/80/2, 2A-2C are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/80/2].

[Description continued from ADM 101/80/2A/1]

Folio 16: James Kerland, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, lassitude and giddiness of head with slight pain inability to walk owing to tremors of his knee joints; dates on sick list, 15-19 July 1797; died.

Folio 16: John Young, aged 34, seaman; disease or hurt, yellow tinge in eyes and over body; dates on sick list, 1-20 July 1797; died.

Folio 17: Joseph Robinson, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, diarrhoea and gripes; dates on sick list, 8-15 July 1797; discharged to duty.

Folio 17: John Lyons, aged 26, seaman; disease or hurt, violent vomiting; dates on sick list, 10-13 July 1797; died.

Folios 17-18: John Patterson, aged 30, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the small of back and head ache; dates on sick list, 11-25 July 1797; discharged to duty.

Folios 18-19: James Sherridan, aged 34, marine; disease or hurt, coldness, shivering and fever; dates on sick list, 16-20 July 1797; died.

Folio 19: Robert Young, aged 34, seaman; disease or hurt, abdominal pains; dates on sick list, 16-29 July 1797; discharged to duty.

Folios 19-20: Daniel Moriarty, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, violent griping; dates on sick list, 26-31 July 1797; died.

Folio 20: Frederick Finn, aged 34, seaman; disease or hurt, chills, hot flushes, loss of appetite and head pain; dates on sick list, 27 July-8 Aug 1797; discharged to duty.

Folios 20-21: Charles Brown, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, head and back pain with lassitude; dates on sick list, 28 July-3 Aug 1797; died.

Folios 21-22: David Davis, aged 20, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in right side with cough and difficulty of breathing; dates on sick list, 28 July-9 Aug 1797; discharged to duty.

Folio 22: William Pierce, aged 36, seaman; disease or hurt, violent pain in the abdomen; dates on sick list, 1-8 Aug 1797; died.

Folio 23: Patrick Parker, aged 21, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the abdomen and head; dates on sick list, 2-12 Aug 1797; discharged to duty.

Folios 23-24: Timothy Mahoney, aged 33, seaman; disease or hurt, pain and giddiness in the head with faintness and nausea; dates on sick list, 19-23 Aug 1797; died.

Folios 24-25: Joseph Edwards, aged 30, seaman; disease or hurt, pain and weight at the breast, difficulty of breathing and troublesome cough; dates on sick list, 20-31 Aug 1797; discharged to duty.

Folio 25: B [Barnabus?] Watts, aged 26, marine; disease or hurt, chilliness succeeded by heat; dates on sick list, 30 Aug-5 Sept 1797; died.

Folio 25: John Carr, aged 50, lieutenant; disease or hurt, pain in the head and belly; dates on sick list, 12-15 Aug 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 26: James Wood, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the head and back, redness of eyes and loss of strength; dates on sick list, 8-16 Sept 1797; died.

Folios 26-27: Joseph Farrol, aged 36, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the head and belly; dates on sick list, 30 Sept-7 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 27: Robert D Elvin, aged 28, seaman; disease or hurt, chilliness succeeded by heat and sweat, pain in head and back; dates on sick list, 30 Sept-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folios 27-28: Patrick Slone, aged 30, seaman; disease or hurt, coldness and shivering followed by heat and sweating, pain in the head and back; dates on sick list, 9-25 Sept 1797; discharged to duty.

Folios 28-29: John [Nillis?], aged 29, seaman; disease or hurt, vomiting and purging of a bilious matter with pain and distention of the abdomen; dates on sick list, 2-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 29: Lewis Rowland, aged 35, seaman; disease or hurt, giddiness in head, pain over eyes, debility with loss of appetite and nausea; dates on sick list, 14-19 Oct 1797; died.

Folio 29: Thomas Davies, aged 33, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in head and belly; dates on sick list, 5-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folios 29-30: John Robinson, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, violent pain the abdomen; dates on sick list, 17-21 Oct 1797; died.

Folio 30: James Phillips, aged 26, seaman; disease or hurt, coldness and shivering, heat and sweating, pain in the head and back; dates on sick list, 4-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 30: Thomas Fordred, aged 40, caulker; disease or hurt, pain in the head and belly; dates on sick list, 5-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 31: George Owens, aged 34, seaman; disease or hurt, small veneral ulcer in the glans; dates on sick list, 5 October-10 Nov 1797; discharged to duty.

Folios 31-32: John Dacknate, aged 32, marine; disease or hurt, pain in the abdomen; dates on sick list, 5-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 32: Robert Williams, aged 33, marine; disease or hurt, vomiting and purging of a bilious matter; dates on sick list, 5-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 32: Henry Fooks, aged 26, seaman; disease or hurt, violent headache, pain in back, loss of appetite; dates on sick list, 6-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 32: William Waymand, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, violent pain in the abdomen and head; dates on sick list, 6-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 33: John Brannon, aged 34, marine; disease or hurt, pain and distention of the abdomen tenermus; dates on sick list, 6-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 33: John Orvis, aged 29, midshipman; disease or hurt, colourless swelling in left knee joint; date on sick list, 8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital at Cape Nicholas Mole.

Folio 33: John Foy, aged 34, seaman; disease or hurt, pain the abdomen; dates on sick list, 6-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 33: Jeremiah Maloney, aged 35, seaman; disease or hurt, vomiting and purging of a bilious matter with coldness of the extremities; dates on sick list, 6-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 34: James Thorne, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the abdomen; dates on sick list, 6-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 34: George Stuckey, aged 16, boy; disease or hurt, colourless tumour in right groin possibly of a scrophulus nature; dates on sick list, 6-8 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 34: John Vincent, aged 29, seaman; disease or hurt, coldness and shivering succeeded by heat and sweating, pain the abdomen; dates on sick list, 29-31 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 34: Julian James, aged 31, seaman; disease or hurt, frequently going to stool, protrusion and swelling of the rectum; date on sick list, 30 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 35: Peter Holywood, aged 26, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the head and back with coldness and shivering succeeded by heat and sweating, pain in the left side with a hard tumor; dates on sick list, 30-31 Oct 1797; sent to hospital.

Folio 35: John Gardner, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, lassitude with a chronic diarrhoea; dates on sick list, 29 Oct-2 Nov 1797; sent to hospital.

Folios 35-36: John Patterson, aged 28, seaman; disease or hurt, pain over eyes and small of the back with nausea and loss of appetite; dates on sick list, 29 Oct-12 Nov 1797; discharged to duty.

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