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Medical journal of HM sloop Shark for 1 June 1801 to 20 February 1802 by Patrick...
Catalogue reference: ADM 101/120/4
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- 1801-1802
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Medical journal of HM sloop Shark for 1 June 1801 to 20 February 1802 by Patrick Mullane during which the said ship was employed on foreign service.
Folios 1-4: John Browne, aged 26, landsman; sick or hurt, pleurisy; put on sick list 1 June 1801 at Spithead, discharged 3 June 1801 to Haslar Hospital.
Folios 1-6: Andrew Collins, aged 28, able seaman; sick or hurt, lues with [chancres?]; put on sick list 1 June 1801 at Spithead, discharged [date not given].
Folios 1-6: David Watkins, aged 31, able seaman; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 2 June 1801 at Spithead, discharged [date not given].
Folios 6-7: William Hazel, marine; sick or hurt, fever inflammatory; put on sick list 5 June 1801 at Spithead, discharged 6 June 1801 to Haslar Hospital.
Folio 8: James Lawson, boy; sick or hurt, contused thigh and leg from the fall of a large block; put on sick list 23 June 1801 at Falmouth, discharged 23 June 1801 to the hospital ship at Falmouth.
Folio 8: James Nelder, aged 36, able seaman; sick or hurt, a gun shot wound, inflicted by a the accidental firing of a musket being cleaned by a marine, the musket ball of which passed through the right leg, below the belly of the gastoanimia muscles which fractured the tibia and fibula and lacerated the muscles considerably the inferior part of the leg hanging only by small portion; put on sick list 10 October 1801 at Port Royal, Jamaica. 'This most unfortunate man being of a extremely habit and was inclinable to live hard, and being a long time at sea was a bad subject for a gun shot wound. Two days after the amputation he died attacked with subsuetus'.
Folios 9-10: John Bowley, aged 29, gunner's mate; sick or hurt, yellow fever; put on sick list 2 November 1801 off Blue Fields, Jamaica. Died 3 November 1801 on board HMS Shark.
Folio 11: Patrick Mullane, aged 28, Surgeon; sick or hurt, scorbutic ulcer on the left leg with great debility and scorbutic eruptions on most parts of the body; put on sick list 20 February 1802 off Port Royal Harbour, Jamaica. Discharged 20 February 1802 to Port Royal Hospital, Jamaica.
Folio 11: numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.
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