Catalogue description Medical journal of HMS Renard for 12 May 1806 to 23 October 1807 by Andrew Smith,...

Medical journal of HMS Renard for 12 May 1806 to 23 October 1807 by Andrew Smith, Surgeon.

[Note: ADM 101/117/2, 2A-2E are produced as a single document: order as ADM 101/117/2].

Folios 1-1A: Blank.

Folio 1B: Jeremiah Coghlan, aged 30, captain; sick or hurt, violent headache, pain and oppression of the chest, shooting pains of the limbs and nausea; put on sick list, 14 May 1806 off the Island of Cuba. Discharged 29 May1806 to duty. Folio 1B: John McGuyer, aged 24, ordinary seaman; sick or hurt, violent griping and purging attended with tenesmus and some degree of fever; put on sick list, 4 June 1806 Port Royal Jamaica. Discharged 20 June 1806 to duty.

Folio 2: Amandes Aubrey, aged 28, able seaman; sick or hurt, severe headache, pain in the back and other limbs and nausea; put on sick list, 12 June 1806 Port Royal Jamaica. Discharged 30 June 1806 to duty. Folio 2: Richard Voucher, aged 30, able seaman; sick or hurt, cold shivering, pain in his limbs, head and loins; put on sick list, 13 June 1806 cruising off Jamaica. Discharged 30 June 1806 to duty.

Folio 3: Robert Christian, aged 58, able seaman; sick or hurt, frequent coughing, pain in head, and limbs with considerable expectoration and some degree of fever; put on sick list, 13 June 1806 cruising off Jamaica. Discharged 28 June 1806 to duty. Folio 3: Robert Halliburton, aged 20, ordinary seaman; sick or hurt, wounded by a musquet ball which entered the anterior part of the right thigh about four inches below the groin, passed through the muscles and lodged in the gluteus maximus of the same side wounding the great nerve in its passage; put on sick list, 24 June 1806 cruising off St Domingo. Discharged 12 August 1806 to duty.

Folio 4: Louis Colquhoon, aged 20, ordinary seaman; sick or hurt, severe headache, pains in his limbs, vomiting; put on sick list, 18 July 1806 Manchinial Bay St Domingo. Discharged 4 September 1806 to duty. Folio 4: Andrew Saunders, aged 35, armourer; sick or hurt, cold shivering, headache and nausea; put on sick list, 15 August 1806 Port Royal Jamaica. Discharged 13 September 1806 to duty.

Folio 5: Terence McGee, aged 48, landsman; sick or hurt, pleurisy with fever; put on sick list, 31 August 1806 Port Royal Harbour. Discharged 10 September 1806 to Port Royal Hospital. Folio 5: Robert Blair, aged 50, carpenter; sick or hurt, hard dry hectic cough with difficult expectoration; put on sick list, 23 November 1806 in the bay of Honduras. Discharged 25 December 1806 to the Military Hospital at Honduras.

Folio 6: Francis Willington, aged 30, quartergunner; sick or hurt, severe griping, purging and tenesmus; put on sick list, 3 January 1807 off Jamaica. Discharged 28 January 1807 to duty. Folio 6: Thomas Worth, aged 30, sailmaker; sick or hurt, cold shivering, headache, pain in limbs and back; put on sick list, 3 March 1807 cruising off Jamaica. Discharged 2 April 1807 to duty.

Folio 7: Richard Fairey, aged 40, private marine; sick or hurt, violent griping, purging and tenesmus and fever; put on sick list, 28 March 1807 Port Royal Harbour Jamaica. Discharged 6 April 1807 to Port Royal Hospital. Folio 7: James Walton, aged 25, captain's clerk; sick or hurt, violent griping, purging and tenesmus; put on sick list, 10 May 1807 near Jamaica. Discharged 20 May 1807 to duty.

Folio 8: William Stringham, aged 28, carpenter's crew; sick or hurt, violent headache, general lassitude of the extremities, pain of loins and across the chest, difficult breathing; put on sick list, 10 May 1807 near Jamaica. Discharged 29 May 1807 to duty. Folio 8: Joseph Knight, aged 34, able seaman; sick or hurt, cold shivering, headache and pains all over limbs, nausea and vomiting; put on sick list, 13 May 1807 off the Island of Cuba. Discharged 28 May 1807 to duty.

Folio 9: James Saunderson, aged 21, able seaman; sick or hurt, cold shivering, headache and pains all over limbs; put on sick list, 17 May 1807 cruising off Jamaica. Discharged 31 May 1807 to duty. Folio 9: Thomas Wakefield, aged 20, private marine; sick or hurt, violent headache, nausea and vomiting, cold shivering and pains all over his limbs; put on sick list, 17 May 1807 cruising off Jamaica. Discharged 29 May 1807 to duty.

Folio 10: William Buttersby, aged 18, landsman; sick or hurt, cold shivering, headache and pains all over limbs; put on sick list, 25 May 1807 cruising off St Domingo. Discharged 4 June 1807 to Port Royal Hospital.

Folio 11: John Wilson, aged 39, private marine; sick or hurt, violent griping and tenesmus; put on sick list, 9 June 1807 Port Royal Harbour Jamaica. Discharged 11 June 1807 to Port Royal Hospital. Folio 11: John Blackson, aged 32, able seaman; sick or hurt, cold shivering, headache and pains all over limbs; put on sick list, 10 June 1807 Port Royal Harbour Jamaica. Discharged 21 June 1807 to duty.

Folio 12: Thomas White, aged 28, boatswain's mate; sick or hurt, violent headache and frequent coughing attended with fever and usual symptoms of catarrh; put on sick list, 1 July 1807 Jamaica. Discharged 20 July 1807 to duty. Folio 12: James Saunderson, aged 20, captain's coxswain; sick or hurt, usual symptoms of catarrh, attended with fever and cough; put on sick list, 23 August 1807 on the passage from Honduras to England. Discharged 24 September 1807 to duty.

Folio 13: Richard Hartwell, aged 29, able seaman; sick or hurt, violent griping, purging and tenesmus; put on sick list, 14 September 1807 on the passage from Honduras to England. Discharged 30 September 1807 to duty. Folio 13: Numerical abstract of the medical cases mentioned in the journal.

Folios 13-14: Surgeon's general remarks.