Medical and surgical journal of HMS Seahorse for 10 September 1801 to 7 October 1802...

ADM 101/120/6F

1801-1802

Medical and surgical journal of HMS Seahorse for 10 September 1801 to 7 October 1802 by [William?] Holden, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed as a convoy to the East Indies.

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

Folio 1: Blank.

Folio 2: 9 September 1801, sailed from Spithead with one man on the list convalescent from fever. The ship's company enjoyed the most perfect health with a few cases of venereal.

Folio 2: Thomas Watson, aged 27, Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, attacked with giddiness, nausea, pain about the eyes & universal languor; put on the list 5 October 1801, discharged 9 October 1801 to duty.

Folios 2-4: Michael King, aged 24, Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, great tightness over the chest, difficulty respiration with spassm affecting the left side; put on the list 12 October 1801, discharged 30 October 1801 to duty.

Folio 4: 1 November 1801, the whole of the ship's company, enjoyed the perfect health. About 5 or 6 men on the list chiefly from slight accident or from the effects of the sun. lemon juice, sugar and wine were served during the time when the ship in the tropics. When the ship in the latitude of the Cape of Good Hope, grog was served.

Folios 4-6: Henry Wilson, aged 40, Gunner's Mate; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, pains affecting the arms, breast, thighs & legs attended with stiffness & pain on the prepuce; put on the list 7 December 1801, discharged 30 December 1801 to duty.

Folios 6-8 and 10: James Maher, aged 30, Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, labourious respiration, pain at scrobiculis cordis, frequently shifting to the left side; put on the list 9 January 1802, discharged 20 January 1802 to duty. Remarks, this man has been subject to asthmatic attacks for sometime past and was sent on board this ship for the benefit of a warm climate from Haslar Hospital [folio 10] affected again on 22 January 1802, with oppressed respiration, sent 22 January 1802 to Hospital at Calcutta.

Folios 7-10: Thomas Priest, aged 40, Gunner's Mate; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, pains affecting the arms, breast, thighs & legs attended with stiffness & pain on the prepuce; put on the list 7 December 1801, sent 22 January 1802 to Hospital at Calcutta.

Folios 7-10: Peter Dowling, aged 29, Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, stiffness about the hams & legs, swelling of the feet; put on the list 18 January 1802, sent 22 January 1802 to Hospital at Calcutta.

Folios 10-11: 10-28 February 1802, Kedgeree roads, a few raised landsmen who never at sea had several blotches of a blueish colour & in two or three instances a slight affection of the gums apparently of scorbutic kind. On the 16 February, the ship's company began to feel the usual consequences of change of diet.

Folio 11: James Clinch, aged 26, Seaman; taken ill at [Kedgeree roads]; disease or hurt, suddenly attacked with most excruciating pain at the pit of stomach; put on the list 28 February 1802, discharged 2 March 1802 to duty.

Folio 11: John Smith, aged 20, Seaman; taken ill at [Kedgeree roads]; disease or hurt, attacked in the same manner [as the above case] occasioned by sleeping on deck; put on the list 28 February 1802, discharged 3 March 1802 to duty.

Folio 12: 30 March 1802, Madras roads, the ship's company still in general good health, no prevaling complaints.

Folio 12: 20 April 1802, Tricomaley roads, at this time the men were much affected with diarrhoea & many with dysentery occasioned by the badness of the water & beef.

Folios 12-13: Brian Moore, aged 21, Marine; taken ill at [Tricomaley]; disease or hurt, frequent gripings about the umbilicus constant inclination to stool with straining & forcing down of the rectum & tenesmus; put on the list 21 April 1802, discharged 5 May 1802 to duty.

Folios 13-14: Michael Murphy, aged 23, Seaman; taken ill at [Tricomaley]; disease or hurt, sickness at stomach, pain in the head, unsual lassitude and debility occasioned by drinking spirits & lying in the sun; put on the list 8 May 1802, died 13 May 1802.

Folios 14-15: William Carter, aged 34, Sergeant Marine; taken ill at Madras Roads; disease or hurt, pain & sickness at stomach, giddiness of the head, fever, body costive & shortness of breast; put on the list 15 May 1802, died 17 May 1802.

Folios 15-16: Elias Millar, aged 28, Seaman; taken ill at Madras Roads; disease or hurt, dysentery; put on the list 20 May 1802, sent 25 May 1802 to Hospital at Madras.

Folios 15-16: James Edwards, aged 36, Seaman; taken ill at Madras Roads; disease or hurt, dysentery; put on the list 21 May 1802, sent 25 May 1802 to Hospital at Madras.

Folio 16: Sailed from Madras 31 May 1802, with ship's company in general good health.

Folio 16: William Powel, aged 20, Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, attacked with giddiness, headache & sickness; put on the list 6 June 1802, discharged 10 June 1802 to duty.

Folios 17-19: Richard Dunn, aged 16, Ordinary Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, fell from the main top upon the quarter deck, fractured his calvicle & arm displaced & contusion of cheek; put on the list 16 June 1802, convalescent 26 June 1802.

Folios 18-19: Thomas Neeker, aged 28, Gunner's Mate; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, fell over board and remained swimming half an hour before he was picked up; put on the list 31 July 1802, discharged 2 August 1802 to duty.

Folio 19: 10 August 1802, St. Helena, as the ship makes 2 feet water in an hour, the pumb kept continually at work, the men after getting worm went on deck, & from the situation of the ship being just opened with a valley the wind frequently comes in gush extremely cold which occasion colds & intermittent to be common.

Folio 19: John Wilson, aged 34, Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, cold chills with pain in the back & loins, headache and nausea; put on the list 10 August 1802, discharged 24 August 1802 to duty.

Folio 20: William Summers, aged 36, Seaman; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, taken with a fit of coughing and in the act of which he ruptured a blood vessel of the lungs; put on the list 2 September 1802, died 2 September 1802.

Folio 20: Lazarus Thornton, aged 40, Carpenter's Mate; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, pain in the left short ribs affected his breath; put on the list 10 September 1802, discharged 20 September 1802 to duty.

Folios 20-23: John Howard, aged 23, Marine; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, scurvy; put on the list 21 September 1802, sent 7 October 1802 to Hospital.

Folios 21-23: William Clara, aged 36, Marine; taken ill at sea; disease or hurt, pain about the region of bladder; put on the list 25 September 1802, sent 7 October 1802 to Hospital.

Folios 22-23: Martin Reading, aged 32, Seaman; taken ill at Spithead; disease or hurt, rheumatism of the knee, elbow and all the large joints; put on the list 5 October 1802, sent 7 October 1802 to Hospital.

Folios 22-23: William Baitlett, aged 22, Seaman; taken ill at Spithead; disease or hurt, lately recovered from dysentery at St. Helena, his same complained return; put on the list 7 October 1802, sent 7 October 1802 to Hospital.

Folio 23: Numerical abstract of cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 23-24: Surgeon's general remarks.

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