Folio 1: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal. Folio 2: Colour...

ADM 101/195/1

1875-1876

Folio 1: Instructions for the compilation of the medical journal.

Folio 2: Colour drawing showing the vertical section of HMS Juno exhibiting the plan of the ventilation between the timbers.

Folios 2-3: Charles Crawford, aged 19, ordinary seaman; case number 1; disease or hurt, scabies. Put on sick list, 18 November 1875 at Sheerness. Discharged 26 November 1875 to Haslar hospital. Returned to the ship cured on 17 December 1875.

Folio 3: James Overton, aged 23, ordinary seaman; case number 2; disease or hurt, syphilitic neuralgia. Put on sick list, 22 November 1875 at Sheerness. Discharged 14 December 1875 to Haslar hospital.

Folio 3: Thomas Gibson, aged 35, ropemaker; case number 3; disease or hurt, uncured fistula in ano. Put on sick list, 24 November 1875 at Sheerness. Discharged 26 December 1875 to Haslar hospital.

Folios 3-4: Thomas Doulan, aged 18, ordinary seaman; case number 4; disease or hurt, hydrocele of spermatic cord, unsuccessful operation. Put on sick list, 29 November 1875 at Portsmouth. Discharged 25 January 1876 to Malta hospital. Includes on folio 4 a drawing showing the microscopic appearance of the fluid of the hydrocele examined three hours after removal from the sac, bacteria were seen in it and as it is highly improbable they could have existed within the sac it shows how quickly they may become present under certain conditions.

Folios 4-5: William Burgess, aged 28, stoker; case number 5; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsillaris, incipient oedema, glottidis, incisions. Put on sick list, 5 December 1875 at Portsmouth. Discharged 5 January 1876 to light duty.

Folios 5-6: Three cases of gonorrhoea sent to Haslar hospital on 1t December 1875, Robert Bilham, aged 31, marine, when taken ill 23 November 1875; Henry Barnes, aged 19, ordinary seaman, when taken ill 27 November 1875; Sidney Bathgat, aged 25, blacksmith, when taken ill 25 November 1875; description of the three stages of gonorrhoea with drawings of the microscopic appearance of true gonnorhoea.

Folio 6: John Kershaw, aged 43, ship's corporal; case number 7; disease or hurt, catarrh. Put on sick list, 28 November 1875 at Portsmouth. Discharged 14 December 1876.

Folio 6: William Carnell, aged 45, ship's corporal; case number 8; disease or hurt, irritability of the bladder, gouty diasthesis. Put on sick list, 27 November 1875 at Portsmouth. Discharged 7 December 1876 to Haslar hospital.

Folios 6-7: George Lampard, aged 26, able seaman; case number 9; disease or hurt, functional disease of the heart, the most early symptom of rapid phthisis. Put on sick list, 21 December 1875 at Portland. Discharged 20 January 1876 to Malta hospital.

Folios 7-9: James Lyons, aged 17, boy 1st class; case number 10; disease or hurt, acute double pneumonia. Put on sick list, 12 February 1876. Discharged 14 March 1876. Includes a temperature chart (folio 7) and a drawing of the microscopic appearance of the sputa in the second stage of pneumonia showing the expectorated casts of the most minute bronchi (folio 8).

Folios 9-10: Robert Paul, aged 18, boy 1st class; case number 11; disease or hurt, gonorrhoea. Put on sick list, 21 December 1875 at Portland. Discharged 20 January 1876 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 10: John Rowe, aged 18, boy 1st class; case number 12; disease or hurt, primary syphilis. Put on sick list, 5 January 1876 at sea. Discharged 25 January 1876 to Malta Hospital.

Folios 10-12: G Green, aged 18, boy 1st class; case number 13; disease or hurt, acute articular rheumatism, pericardiac effusion, fatty degeneration of liver. Put on sick list, 16 March 1876. Died 6 April 1876. Folio 11 contains a drawing of the section of the liver as it appeared under the microscope x100.

Folios 12-13: William Soper, aged 30, carpenter's mate; case number 14; disease or hurt, debility. Put on sick list, 16 January 1876 at Malta. Discharged 20 January 1876 to Malta Hospital.

Folio 13: George Brown, aged 27, marine; case number 15; disease or hurt, fibrous tumours. Put on sick list, 17 January 1876 at Malta. Discharged 20 January 1876 to Malta Hospital.

Folios 13-14: At various times about a dozen men (case number 16) presented themselves for treatment complaining of sore throat, only the most severe were placed on the sick list, namely W. Sterner, aged 18, boy 1st class; G.Gubbins, aged 21, sub lieutenant; F. Wheeler, 17, boy 1st class; W. Rowley, aged 30, boatswain's mate; A.Searle, aged 18, boy 1st class. Folio 13 also includes a drawing (microscopic X390) of the spores and portions of the filament of a fungus (mucor amethystens?) forming part of the contents of the white elevations on the tonsils-mucus and pus corpuscles, young cells, epithclium.

Folios 14-16: J Goggins, aged 32, supernumerary quartermaster; case number 17; disease or hurt, traumatic encephalitis, fracture of the skull. Put on sick list, 4 April 1876 at Singapore. Discharged. Also includes a colour drawing showing the fractures of the orbital plates of the Os Frontis with blood effused into the frontal sinuses and on the fibrous tissue lining the orbital cavities (folio 15) and a drawing of cerebral matter from the anterior lobes of the brain in a state of softening X220 (folio 16) and details of a post mortem (folio 15-16).

Folio 16: James Bradley, aged 39, staff surgeon; case number 18; disease or hurt, varicose ulcer. Put on sick list, 26 February 1876. Discharged 15 April 1876 to Hong Kong hospital.

Folio 16: C Pearce, aged 18, boy 1st class; case number 19; disease or hurt, phlegmon. Put on sick list, 6 April 1876. Discharged 17 April 1876 to Hong Kong hospital.

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