A narrative by W Warner, Surgeon, with remarks on the malignant fever, commonly though...

ADM 101/83/3A

1796

A narrative by W Warner, Surgeon, with remarks on the malignant fever, commonly though erroneously styled the yellow fever, which appeared on HMS Alfred at Port Royal, Jamaica in July 1796 and continued until the end of October following.

[Note: ADM 101/83/3, 3A-3B are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/83/3].

Folio 1: Blank.

Folios 2-32: This disorder having occasioned much fatality and produced a variety of opinions of the nature and treatment of it. Have endeavoured with some pains to obtain an idea of both, from my own observations aided by those of many practitioners with whom I have conferred on this subject, the following remarks are the best my judgement and ability enable me to offer. The disorder appeared first at Jamaica in 1794, being introduced at Port Royal, by the arrival of HMS Intrepid and was occasioned by her receiving on board a number of persons in a sickly state, who had been confined in prison at the Aux Cayes a port belonging to the French in Saint Domingo. Also includes description of the symptoms of the disease and details of its treatment.

Names of patients treated with emetics are as follows: (folios 15-16) Charles Lowry, quartermaster, aged 35; (folio 16) John Guttrie, carpenter’s crew, aged 40; (folio 16) Duncan McCorcandale, seaman, aged 25; (folios 16-17) William Cowley, marine, aged 20; (folio 17) Jacob Lowerman, quartermaster, aged 45; (folios 17-18) Dennis Kenny, marine, aged 30; (folio 18) James Graham, seaman, aged 26; (folios 18-19) Hugh Matton, seaman, aged 26; (folio 19) James Murray, seaman, aged 25; (folio 19) Thomas Thompson, seaman, aged 34; (folio 19) James Ailey, marine, aged 36; (folio 20) Alexander Raison, seaman, aged 22; (folio 20) Patrick Turner, marine, aged 21; (folios 20-21) Peter Viel, seaman, aged 22; (folio 21) David James, seaman, 20; (folio 21) Thomas Burn, seaman, aged 24.

Names of patients treated with Doctor James's Fever Powder are as follows: (folio 22) George Atherton, seaman, aged 36; (folio 22) John Luckey, lad, aged 16; (folios 22-23) Captain Robert McClaverty of the marines, aged 34; (folio 23) Thomas Dunn, lad, aged 17; (folio 23) Richard Wann, seaman, aged 23; (folio 24) William Narborough, seaman, aged 25; (folio 24) Andrew Beard, seaman, aged 30; (folios 24-25) John Roach, seaman, aged 30; Names of patients treated first with calomel rhubarb and sapon venet: (folio 25) Charles McKendall, seaman, aged 25; (folios 25-26) William Griffith, quartermaster, aged 25; (folio 26) Thomas Retley, seaman, aged 30; (folio 26) John Brown, seaman, aged 24; (folios 26-27) Edward Hughes, marine, aged 24; (folio 27) Edward Polton, marine, aged 23; (folio 27) James Anderson, seaman, aged 31; (folios 27-28) Alexander Johnson, seaman, aged 30; (folio 28) James Wolf, seaman, aged 25; (folio 28) William Henley, seaman, aged 22; Names of patients treated first with Camphorated and Saline Mixtures: (folio 29) William Stevens, seaman, aged 40; (folio 29) Neal Shaw, seaman, aged 25; (folios 29-30) Alexander Frasier, seaman, aged 30; (folio 30) Thomas Ging, seaman, aged 28; (folio 30) John Haydon, seaman, aged 30; (folio 31) Neal McLee, seaman, aged 40; (folio 31) Abraham Marshall, seaman, aged 45; (folio 31) John Morgan, seaman, aged 26; (folio 32) Fleming Ibre, seaman, aged 25; (folio 32) Gerard Drampus, seaman, aged 22.

Folios 33-40: Blank.

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