Medical and surgical journal of HMS Seahorse for 1 December 1796 to 17 August 1797...

ADM 101/120/6A

1796-1797

Medical and surgical journal of HMS Seahorse for 1 December 1796 to 17 August 1797 by David Fleming, Surgeon.

[Note: ADM 101/120/6A-6F are produced as a single document: ADM 101/120/6].

Folio 1: Journal title page.

Folios 2-3: Frederick Langford, aged 18, midshipman; disease or hurt, violent cold and sore throat, inflamed tonsils attended with considerable degree of pyrexia. Put on sick list, 1 December 1796. Discharged 6 December 1796 to Haslar.

Folio 4: William Beecher, aged 25, ordinary seaman; disease or hurt, scrophulous complaints. Put on sick list, 1 December 1796. Discharged 9 December 1796 to Haslar.

Folios 5-7: Thomas Graves, aged 21, midshipman; disease or hurt, bubo. Put on sick list, 13 December 1796. Died 23 December 1796 at Falmouth.

Folios 8-9: William Dickenson, aged 27, private marine; disease or hurt, convalescent state since contracting a severe fever. Put on sick list, 18 December 1796. Discharged 23 December 1796 at Falmouth.

Folios 10-11: John Butler, aged 23, able seaman; disease or hurt, violent headache, loss of appetite, great thirst, languor and drowsiness, cold chills followed by hot fits, with a burning heat all over, nausea and frequent inclination to vomit. Put on sick list, 22 December 1796. Discharged 26 December 1796 at Falmouth.

Folio 12: Robert Caisley, aged 18, ordinary seaman; disease or hurt, foot jammed between the spanker boom. Put on sick list, 12 February 1797. Discharged 27 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 13: Patrick Larey, aged 34, able seaman; disease or hurt, fell from the main deck into the hold and greatly wrenched the spine in the small of the back bruising the whole of the lumbar vertebrae. Put on sick list, 23 February 1797. Discharged 27 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 14: William Brotherfield, aged 20, able seaman; disease or hurt, ulcers. Put on sick list, 9 March 1797. Discharged 3 April 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 15: John Buciannan, aged 27, master’s mate; disease or hurt, ulcers on the legs. Put on sick list, 16 April 1797. Discharged 19 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 16: James Oliver, aged 32, able seaman; disease or hurt, low spirited, melancholy, put in a strait jacket. Put on sick list, 14 May 1797. Discharged 19 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folios 17-18: Sillas White, aged 23, surgeon’s mate; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 10 May 1797. Discharged 19 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 19: Joseph Gregory, aged 23, landsman; disease or hurt, scorbutic complaints. Put on sick list, [?]. Discharged 19 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 20: Thomas Clark, aged 25, able seaman; disease or hurt, about three months ago underwent a course of mercury for lues venera which greatly reduced him, and now from drinking of breakish water a violent purging ensued with a considerable degree of pyrexia. Put on sick list, 13 May 1797. Discharged 19 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folios 21-23: Charles Brooks, aged 14, boy; disease or hurt, two days ago very much against his own inclination was taken out of a Gibraltar privateer while cruising off Minorca; and the dread of a man of war together with the apprehension of being kept on board left so deep an impression of fear and grief that he rejects all food offered him and does nothing to sob and cry. Now has a high fever. Put on sick list, 9 May 1797. Discharged 24 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 24: Samuel Farrant, aged 34, private marine; disease or hurt, high degree of fever. Put on sick list, 22 May 1797. Discharged 24 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 25: Thomas Cooksly, aged 26, private, marine; disease or hurt, high degree of fever. Put on sick list, 26 May 1797. Discharged 29 May 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 25: John Barratt, aged 29, quarter gunner; disease or hurt, fractured both bones of forearm and bruised his body and extremities all over owing to a fall. Put on sick list, 7 June 1797. Discharged 7 June 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 26: John Herrington, aged 32, ordinary seaman; disease or hurt, received stab wounds in a ‘drunken frolic’. Put on sick list, 12 June 1797. Discharged 12 June 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folios 27-28: William Mackey, aged 31, ship’s cook; disease or hurt, violent pain about the region of the liver with a constriction spasm of the whole abdomen. Put on sick list, 14 June 1797. Discharged 17 June 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folio 29: James Renfrew, aged 37, landsman; disease or hurt, insanity. Put on sick list, 21 June 1797. Discharged 21 June 1797 at Gibraltar.

Folios 30-32: John Collier, aged 31, able seaman; disease or hurt, violent headache, universal pains all over body and extremities, cold shivering and hot fits. Put on sick list, 30 June 1797. Discharged 25 July 1797 to duty.

Folios 33-36: John Curren, aged 23, ordinary seaman; disease or hurt, rheumatism. Put on sick list, 4 July 1797. Discharged 29 July 1797.

Folios 37-42: Blank.

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Topics

Mental illness

Europe and Russia

Food and drink

Navy

Armed Forces (General Administration)