Folio 16: Laurence Kinley, able seaman, aged 45; disease or hurt, a bubo in each...

ADM 101/80/5A/2

1799-1800

Folio 16: Laurence Kinley, able seaman, aged 45; disease or hurt, a bubo in each groin and a chancre on the glan penis, some inflammation. Taken ill, 11 October 1799, Texell. Discharged to duty 27 December 1799.

Folio 16: Daniel Clerk, able seaman, aged 46; disease or hurt, a large bubo in his right groin and a chancre under the praeputium attended with inflammation. Taken ill, 15 October 1799, Texell. Discharged to duty 16 January 1800.

Folio 16: James Humphries, able seaman, aged 26; disease or hurt, a large bubo in his left groin, two small ulcers on the glans penis with inflammation and swelling of the gland. Taken ill, 16 October 1799, Texell. Discharged to duty 16 January 1800.

Folio 16: Remarks on the treatment of Kinley, Clerk and Humphries.

Folio 17: Dennis Dunnam, ordinary seaman, aged 22; disease or hurt, separated the integuments on the posterior os parietal from the bone by falling from the deck into the cockpit. Taken ill, 12 October 1799, Texell. Discharged to duty 28 November 1799. Treated with ligatures, sticking plasters, a pledget and a two head[...] roller. Admitted to being very drunk at the time of the accident.

Folio 18: Joseph Gouney, landsman, aged 30; disease or hurt, very weak with stiffness of limbs, livid coloured spots on his body. Taken ill, 1 November 1799, at sea. Discharged to Sick Quarters at Cowes, 7 November 1799. Remarks on the state of the fluids and the solids in this disease and the story of man who dropped dead while recovering from scurvy in the Mole Hospital, St Domingo, and, on dissection, was found to have his heart and viscera in a state of putrefaction.

Folio 18: Andrew Bready, able seaman, aged 34; disease or hurt, hernia scrotalis. Taken ill, 6 November 1799, Cowes. Discharged to Sick Quarters at Cowes, 7 November 1799.

Folios 18-19: Charles White, master, age not recorded; disease or hurt, buboes, with a variety of excrescence under the praeputium, swelling and inflammation. Taken ill, 7 November 1799. Discharged to duty 18 January 1800.

Folio 19: Edmund Aikes, landsman, aged 23; disease or hurt, insanity, a great deal of anxiety and melancholy without any apparent cause. Taken ill, 7 November, at Cowes. Discharged to Sick Quarters at Cowes, 7 November. Remarks that this man had been on board eight months and would not sleep in a hammock but slept standing up or over a gun. Although Captain Mansel flogged him 'on his posteriors once a week' he would not go to bed.

Folios 19-21: Samuel Root, armourer's mate, age not recorded; disease or hurt, [rheumatic fever], feeling successively hot and cold with violent pain in his heart, thirst, oppression of breathing. Taken ill, 11 November 1799, Spithead. Discharged to Deal Hospital, 3 December 1799. Remarks that this man had been drinking three pints of gin every day for three weeks and standing in a draft of wind when perspiring after working at the forge, bringing on the rheumatic fever. Was allowed wine in lieu of grog when the Surgeon thought it appropriate.

Folio 21: Jonathan Gibbs, private marine, age not recorded; disease or hurt, received a blow on the leg which is red and very swollen. Taken ill, 1 December 1799, in the Downs. Discharged to duty 20 January 1800.

Folio 21: Lieutenant Alexander Murray, marine, age not recorded; disease or hurt, [rheumatic affection] lassitude, chilliness and shivering, succeeded by great heat, thirst and a hard quick pulse. Taken ill, 29 December 1799, Spithead. Discharged to Haslar Hospital, 31 December 1799. Illness attributed to having got wet and not taking off his wet clothes.

Folio 22: William Allen, boatswain, aged 52; disease or hurt, acute pain in the right hip. Taken ill, 1 January 1800. Discharged to Falmouth Hospital Ship. Remarks that William Allen had been on the Adventure for nine years and had been regularly unable to do duty because of rheumatism, sent to sick quarters at Captain Mansel's request.

Folio 22: Jonathan Widdup, ordinary seaman, aged 21; disease or hurt, dislocated shoulder from falling down the hatchway. Taken ill, 14 January 1800, at sea. Discharged to duty 8 February 1800.

Folios 22-23: Jonathan Wilson, Able Seaman, aged 25; disease or hurt, large bubo in his left groin. Taken ill, 16 February, Plymouth Sound. Discharged to duty 30 March.

Folio 23: Abstract of the preceding journal, being a summary of all the cases contained therein. Scurvy, 1; Ulcers, 1; Wounds and accidents, 5; Rheumatism, 4; Intermittent fevers, 1; Venereal, 15; Hernia scrotalis, 2; Opthalmia, 1. No Surgeon's Mate on board. Signed, D Parry, Surgeon.

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