Medical journal of HMS Alfred from 1 October 1797 to 31 March 1798 by W Warner, Surgeon,...

ADM 101/83/3B

1797-1798

Medical journal of HMS Alfred from 1 October 1797 to 31 March 1798 by W Warner, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in the West Indies..

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

Folio 1: Sanders Clark, aged [?], seaman; disease or hurt, feverish. Put on sick list, 1 October 1797. Discharged 20 October 1797.

Folio 1: Peter Thompson, aged 45, quartergunner; disease or hurt, gravel with disease about the neck of the bladder. Put on sick list, 1 October 1797. Discharged 29 November 1797 to Martinique Hospital.

Folio 2: Thomas Watkins, aged 35, seaman; disease or hurt, feverish. Put on sick list, 6 October 1797. Discharged 30 October 1797 to duty.

Folios 2-3: John Edwards, aged 28, captain's coxswain; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 9 October 1797. Discharged 6 December 1797 to duty.

Folio 4: Thomas Watkins, aged 35, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever of the country. Put on sick list, 9 October 1797. Discharged 31 October 1797 to duty.

Folios 4-5: John McIntire, aged 22, seaman; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 16 October 1797. Discharged 5 November 1797 to duty.

Folio 5: William Tryson, aged 22, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever of the country. Put on sick list, 23 October 1797. Discharged 6 November 1797 to duty.

Folios 5-6: William Chubb, aged 20, seaman; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 29 October 1797. Died 7 November 1797.

Folios 6-7: William Dawkins, aged 17, lad; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 4 November 1797. Died 9 November 1797.

Folios 7-8: Michael [?], aged 22, seaman; disease or hurt, catarrh with slight pleuritic inflammation. Put on sick list, 4 November 1797. Discharged 3 December 1797 to Martinique Hospital.

Folios 8-9: John Humfreys, aged 21, private marine; disease or hurt, pulmoni and peritoneal inflammation about the region of the liver. Put on sick list, 8 November 1797. Discharged 29 November 1797 to Martinique Hospital.

Folio 9: John Cox, aged 23, seaman; disease or hurt, laceration of the great toe with contusion occasioned by the gun carriage wheel of a two and thirty pounder running over it. Put on sick list, 20 November 1797. Discharged 29 November 1797 to Martinique Hospital.

Folios 9-10: John Thomas, aged 45, seaman; disease or hurt, catarrh attended with pain of the precordia, cough and difficulty to expectorate. Put on sick list, 21 November 1797. Discharged 11 January 1798 to Martinique Hospital.

Folio 10: James Cavy, aged 28, seaman; disease or hurt, continual vomiting, rejecting food and drink with frequent loose stools. Put on sick list, 13 December 1797. Discharged 11 January 1798 to Martinique Hospital.

Folio 11: Joseph Germanins, aged 52, seaman; disease or hurt, swelling of the abdomen with retention of urine, low pulse and considerable pain. Put on sick list, 21 December 1797. Discharged 11 January 1798 to Martinique Hospital.

Folios 11-12: Douglas Flemming, aged 30, carpenter's crew; disease or hurt, fracture of the right clavicle with contusion of the head. Put on sick list, 25 December 1797. Discharged 12 February 1798 to duty.

Folios 12-13: John Cox, aged 23, private marine; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 9 January 1798. Discharged 18 February 1798 to Fort Royal Hospital.

Folio 14: James Williams, aged 50, seaman; disease or hurt, difficulty in making urine with great pain in the pubis and bladder. Put on sick list, 13 January 1798. Discharged 18 February 1798 to Fort Royal Hospital.

Folio 14: Henry Blake, aged 43, seaman; disease or hurt, pain in the right side, breat and cough. Put on sick list, 11 January 1798. Discharged 18 February 1798 to Fort Royal Hospital.

Folio 15: Richard Vaughan, aged 25, seaman; disease or hurt, fever. Put on sick list, 18 January 1798. Discharged 30 March 1798 to Martinique Hospital.

Folios 15-16: William Johnson, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever. Put on sick list, 22 January 1798. Discharged 31 January 1798 to duty.

Folio 16: John Small, aged 33, seaman; disease or hurt, phagedonii ulcer of the leg. Put on sick list, 1 February 1798. Discharged 5 April 1798 to Martinique Hospital.

Folio 16: James Quail, aged 25, seaman; disease or hurt, gunshot wound in the right side under the short ribs. Put on sick list, 1 February 1798. Discharged 18 February 1798.

Folio 17: Peter York, aged 34, seaman; disease or hurt, lumbago. Put on sick list, 1 February 1798. Discharged 16 February 1798 to duty.

Folio 17: Neal Shaw, aged 26, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever. Put on sick list, 4 February 1798. Discharged 18 February 1798 to duty.

Folio 18: William Taylor, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever. Put on sick list, 7 February 1798. Discharged 30 April 1798 to duty.

Folios 18-19: George Ayre, aged 27, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever. Put on sick list, 8 February 1798. Discharged 16 February 1798 to duty.

Folios 19-20: Robert Ray, aged 40, seaman; disease or hurt, acute rheumatism. Put on sick list, 10 February 1798. Discharged 5 April 1798 to duty.

Folio 21: John Davis, aged 30, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever. Put on sick list, 13 February 1798. Discharged 28 February 1798 to duty.

Folio 21: Jacob Farro, aged 28, seaman; disease or hurt, common fever. Put on sick list, 14 February 1798. Discharged 26 February 1798 to duty.

Folios 22-23: Alexander Johnson, aged 45, seaman; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Put on sick list, 21 February 1798. Discharged [?].

Folios 24-34: Blank.

Folio 35: A nosological synopsis of journal.

Folio 36: Blank.

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Topics

Caribbean

Weapons

Food and drink

Navy

Medicine

Armed Forces (General Administration)