Journal of HMS Ariadne for 20 November 1803 and 24 March 1804, by Luke Finn, Surgeon,...

Journal of HMS Ariadne for 20 November 1803 and 24 March 1804, by Luke Finn, Surgeon, during which time the said ship was employed in fitting out at Sheerness for sea and employed in blockading the French port of Havre de Grace.

Folio 1: Blank.

Folios 2-3: David Brown, aged 37, able seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; disease or hurt, tumour of the right knee; taken ill, 18 December 1803; discharged 30 December 1803 to duty.

Folios 4-5: John Ellis, aged 23, ordinary seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; disease or hurt, violent headach pain in his extremities; taken ill, 18 December 1803; discharged 3 January 1804 to duty.

Folios 6-7: William Jones, aged 27, able seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; disease or hurt, phlegmatic disposition; taken ill, 18 December 1803; discharged 27 December 1803 to duty at Nore.

Folios 7-9: Michael Higgins, aged 22, ordinary seaman; taken ill at Sheerness; disease or hurt, pain all over, cough and great lousiness; taken ill, 20 December 1803; discharged 31 December 1803 to duty at Downs.

Folios 10-14: John French, aged 28, boatswain's mate; taken ill at Nore; disease or hurt, sense of weight attended with intolerable pain of the right hypochorndriac [hypochondriac]; taken ill, 20 December 1803; discharged 7 January 1804 to duty off Havre de Grace.

Folios 15-16: George Leslie, aged 36, carpenter's crew; taken ill off Havre; disease or hurt, anasarca; taken ill, 27 January 1804; discharged 2 February 1804 to Haslar hospital.

Folio 17: William Arnolds, aged 28, [?]; taken ill off Havre de Grace; disease or hurt, pain on the chest as a result of rebounding or recoiling of carronade against his chest; taken ill, 27 January 1804; sent 2 February 1804 to Haslar hospital.

Folios 18-19: John Kingston, aged 47, ordinary seaman; taken ill off Havre de Grace; disease or hurt, pulmonie inflammation, hard and short cough; taken ill, 27 January 1804; sent 2 February 1804 to Haslar hospital.

Folios 20-21: Thomas Stoves, aged 21, ordinary seaman; taken ill off Havre de Grace; disease or hurt, pain at the knee joint from having got the knee caught between the mizzen mast and poop deck yard; taken ill, 10 January 1804; sent 20 February 1804 on board Betsey cutter for a passage to Haslar hospital.

Folios 22-23: John Welch, aged 39, able seaman; taken ill off Havre; disease or hurt, coughing accompanied with expectoration; taken ill, 24 February 1804; sent 24 March 1804 to Haslar hospital.

Folio 23: A numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 23-24: Surgeon's general remarks. The ship's company was composed of drafts of men from the Zealand, which had been lately pressed and mostly ragged landsmen who either sold or lost their slop clothing on board the receiving ship, consequently none could be supplied them by the purser of our ship, till a limited time, a lapse of one month, during which period they became susceptible of catching cold.

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Armed Forces (General Administration)