Catalogue description Medical journal of the John , convict ship from 24 April to 24 September 1829 by John...

Medical journal of the John, convict ship from 24 April to 24 September 1829 by John Love, surgeon and superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed on a passage to New South Wales.

Folios 1-2: case no 1, John Wright, aged 32, prisoner, taken ill unknown; sick or hurt, diarrhoea, griping and frequent calls to stool with tenesmus; put on sick list 27 May 1829, discharged 29 May 1829 cured.

Folios 2-5: case no 2, John Birmingham, aged 48, prisoner, taken ill unknown; sick or hurt, haemoptysis, cough and discharge some time [with] blood; put on sick list 23 June 1829, discharged 7 July 1829 cured.

Folios 6-7: case no 3, Allen McLean, aged 18, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, fever, headache pain in the eyeballs and thirst, great heat of the skin; put on sick list 27 June 1829, discharged 1 July 1829 cured, on 4 July his bowels has been costive for the last two days.

Folios 8-13: case no 4, William Tuller, aged 26, prisoner, taken ill unknown; sick or hurt, general debility, pain in the limbs and in different parts of the body; put on sick list 13 July 1829, sent 14 September 1829 to general hospital, where he rapidly recovered health and strength and was discharged.

Folios 14-16: case no 5 and 6, Peter McQuirk, aged 24, prisoner, taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, pneumonia, severe cough and attacked with difficult respiration; put on sick list 3 September 1829, discharged 18 September 1829 cured.

Folio 17: numerical abstract of cases listed in the journal.

Folios 18-19: Surgeon's general remarks.