Folio 16: 21 July 1803; 'we have some very bad ulcers on board a small scratch or...

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1803

Folio 16: 21 July 1803; 'we have some very bad ulcers on board a small scratch or blow degenerated to a gangrene surface with an amazing surrounding, an ulcer [wanderfully] rapid in it progress and wide in extent, tis a discase of high excitement and I verily believe it to be the offspring of irregularity and intemperance'.

Folio 17: Robert Rose, aged 25, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, sprained ankle; taken ill on 28 July 1803, date of discharged [?].

Folio 19: Daniel Driscole, aged 23, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, seized in a moment with cholera morbus violent vomiting and several loose stools accompanied with great prostration of strength; taken ill on 10 August 1803, died 11 August 1803.

Folio 19: John Chambers, aged 20, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cold and cough; taken ill on 11 August 1803, discharged 13 August 1803 to duty.

Folio 19: James Kevis, aged 21, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, contusion, received a blow on the little finger of the left hand; taken ill on 11 August 1803, discharged 10 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 19: David Arthur, aged 37, able seaman, taken ill at Cawsand Bay; sick or hurt, third joint of the third finger of the left hand was torn; taken ill on 20 August 1803, discharged 10 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 19: William Mills, aged 22, able seaman, taken ill at Cawsand Bay; sick or hurt, bruised finger; date taken ill [?], date of discharge [?].

Folio 20: Peter English, sergeant marine, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, phlegmon on the back of the left hand inclined to suppuration; taken ill on 27 August 1803, discharged 30 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 20: William Carter, aged 27, butcher's assistant, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, feigned stiff fore arm, complains of not being able to use his left arm, says it proceeds from an old hurt, on examination find no stiffness nor anchylosis of the joint whatever, nor inflammation or swelling or the smallest thing for complaint, was observed making use of both arms yesterday in knocking down and dressing a bullock; note an imposter order his grog to be stopped and to swingshot on the poop every day to shame him as an example to others not to do the like; taken ill on 28 August 1803, discharged 28 August 1803 to duty.

Folio 20: Timothy O'Sullivan, aged 42, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fractured clavicle of the right side; taken ill on 3 September 1803, discharged 19 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 20: John Mitchell, aged 16, boy, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hurt on the little finger of the left hand with inflamed and inclined to suppuration; taken ill on 7 September 1803, discharged 30 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 20: David Turner, aged 28, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cold; taken ill on 17 September 1803, date of discharged [?].

Folio 21: Mr Cull, aged 17, midshipman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cold attacked this morning while on watch with violent headache attended with cold shivering; taken ill on 19 September 1803, discharged 24 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 21: Thomas Richardson, aged 41, private marine, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, in reaching the topsails three first joints of three fingers of the left hand were carried off in the block; taken ill on 21 September 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 21: John Baker, aged 26, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, sprained knee; taken ill on 22 September 1803, discharged 27 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 21: 21 September 1803; the liberal supplied of lime juice and sugar having been constantly administration two and three times a day to the ship 's company we had few or no cases of scurvy appears.

Folio 22: Stephen Gale, aged 20, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, contused joint in hoisting casks of provisions out of the hold; taken ill on 23 September 1803, discharged 8 October 1803 to duty.

Folio 22: George Norman, aged 26, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, violent headache with fever; taken ill on 24 September 1803, discharged 29 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 22: William Denbigh, aged 25, captain of the maintop, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, hurt by a fall; taken ill on 25 September 1803, discharged 30 September 1803 to duty.

Folio 22: Robert Madget, aged 32, captain of after [?], taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cough; taken ill on 30 September 1803, discharged 3 October 1803 to duty.

Folio 22: James Mahoney, aged 24, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer heel; taken ill on 1 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 22: William Hughes, aged 28, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, large spreading ulcer on the tibia, this man as a very hard drinker and a mutinous troublesome; taken ill on 1 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 22: Mr Millor, aged 19, midshipman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer on the heel first hurt by the point of an armourer's nail when walking without shoe; taken ill on 1 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 22: Richard Easton, aged 28, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer on the leg with cough; taken ill on 1 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 22: Michael Lawler, aged 21, landsman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer on the tibia; taken ill on 1 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 22: 24 September 1803; many of the ship's company have complained of headache which appeared to have proceeded from plethora it gave way immediately to [v s] and copious purging.

Folio 22: 1 October 1803; many have been cured of the itch this last week.

Folio 23: Thomas Jones, aged 28, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer on the tibia; taken ill on 2 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 23: Thomas Mathews, aged 24, private marine, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer on the tibia with an abscess and great pain, he had been wounded by a musket ball through the part about two years since; taken ill on 2 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 23: James Woodcock, aged 28, marine, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ulcer on the tibia; taken ill on 2 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 23: John Bryan, aged 25, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris; taken ill on 2 October 1803, discharged 8 October 1803 to duty.

Folio 23: Henry Carr, aged 27, able seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, ascites difficulty of breathing, this man is a hard drinker of spirituous liquors; taken ill on 3 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 24: James Kimber 2nd, aged 25, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cold with [fever]; taken ill on 5 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 24: Mr Bowen, aged 21, [msm], taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cold with oppression of the procardia; taken ill on 5 October 1803, discharged 7 October 1803 to duty.

Folio 25: Charles [Hollis], aged 23, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, cough and cold with no symptoms of pyrexia; taken ill on 8 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 25: James Reaves, aged 22, ordinary seaman, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, contusion on the lumbar vertebra; taken ill on 8 October 1803, date of discharge [?].

Folio 25: 8 October 1803; at 9 o'clock pm. I was superseded by Mr Andrew Douglass off Rochefort.

Folios 26-46: blank.

Folio 47: numerical abstract of the medical cases listed in the journal and surgeon's general remarks on the ship's company indulging themselves too much in eating and drinking. Signed [Thomas] Carruthers, surgeon.

Folios 48-49: essay on the causes of imposters.

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