Journal of HMS Abergavenny , stationed in the West Indies, by George Brown, surgeon,...

ADM 101/80/2C/2

[1797-1798]

Journal of HMS Abergavenny, stationed in the West Indies, by George Brown, surgeon, covering 1 October 1797 to 13 June 1798. [Note: ADM 101/80/2, 2A-2C are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/80/2].

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

Folio 15: John Mcdonald, aged 26, seaman; disease or hurt, coldness and shivering succeeded by heat and sweating, pain in the back, pulse quick, tongue dry, belly cortive; dates on sick list, 9-18 Nov 1797; discharged to duty.

Folio 16: Henry Hayes, aged 29, seaman; disease or hurt, after being exposed to rain was seized with a diarrhoea attended with gripes and [tenemus?], pulse quick but no thirst; dates on sick list, 16-26 Nov 1797; discharged to duty.

Folio 16: John Watson, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in back and head, tongue and skin dry, pulse quick with flushing of the face, universal uneasiness and debility, belly rather costive; dates on sick list, 8-12 Jan 1798; discharged to the hospital Mole St Nicholas.

Folio 17: John Ward, aged 28, seaman; disease or hurt, lassitiude and universal uneasiness with slight pain over eyes, pulse quick, skin and tongue dry, belly regular; dates on sick list, 8-12 January 1798; discharged to the hospital Mole St Nicholas.

Folio 17: Richard Barkett, aged 32, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in head and back, pulse quick and rather hard, tongue and skin dry, belly rather costive; dates on sick list, 8-12 January 1798; discharged to duty.

Folio 18: Samuel King, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in head and belly, frequent scanty stools, pulse quick and small, tongue dry; dates on sick list, 9-12 January 1798; discharged to hospital.

Folio 18: Richard Sparks, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, vomiting and purging of a bilious matter with coldness of the extremities, and a clammy sweat all over, pulse weak and very small; dates on sick list, 10-12 January 1798; discharged to hospital.

Folios 18-19: John Gardner, aged 35, seaman; disease or hurt, giddiness in head, pain over eyes, universal and extreme debility, pain in back and sickness at stomach with vomiting of a bilious matter, pulse very quick and small, belly regular; dates on sick list, 28-31 January 1798; died.

Folio 19: Frederick Miller, aged 23, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in abdomen, frequent scanty stools, thirst with loss of appetite, pulse quick; dates on sick list, 12-20 February 1798; discharged to duty.

Folio 19: John Denny, aged 41, seaman; disease or hurt, chronic dysentery; dates on sick list, 12-16 February 1798; discharged to hospital.

Folios 19-20: James Lawless, aged 30, boatswain; disease or hurt, pain in head and abdomen, frequent scanty stools, tongue dry, pulse quick and rather hard; dates on sick list, 7-12 March 1798; discharged to hospital.

Folio 20: William Roberts, aged 24, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the left side extending over abdomen, frequent going to stool, pulse quick, tongue dry; dates on sick list, 9-12 March 1798; discharged to hospital.

Folio 20: Joseph Robinson, aged 39, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in head, back and belly with chills and alternate heat. Pulse 100 and small, tongue dry, with prostration of strength, belly loose; dates on sick list, 3-5 April 1798; discharged to hospital.

Folios 20-21: Isaac Helstrium, aged 26, seaman; disease or hurt, giddiness of head, pain over eyes, lassitiude, sickness at stomach, pain in limbs, pulse quick and full, belly costive, skin hot and dry; dates on sick list, 3-16 April 1798; discharged to duty.

Folio 21: Thomas Fox, aged 30, seaman; disease or hurt, universal soreness over body and limbs with lassitude, pain in forehead, pulse quick, tongue dry, belly rather costive; dates on sick list, 23-25 May 1798; discharged to hospital Mole St Nicholas.

Folio 21: Owen Davis, aged 37, seaman; disease or hurt, coughing with blood, pain in breast, pulse quick, small belly regular, appetite bad; dates on sick list, 24-29 May 1798; discharged to hospital.

Folio 22: James Sullivan, aged 34, gunner; disease or hurt, chronic dysentery; dates on sick list, 13-15 June 1798; discharged to hospital. Mole St Nicholas.

Folio 23: Abstract of the journal being a [numerical] summary of all the cases contained therein.

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