| Description | Case book of the 88th Regiment. The daily remarks consist of very brief one line entries on individual cases, noting the progress of patients and medicines they have been prescribed. More detailed weekly remarks are also included for the following dates:
1800
10-16 August (page 5): since the last weekly report the sick list has increased by 2 and there have been 2 deaths; there has been a great deal of rain during the week; notes temperature; several of the dysenteric cases, and one or two of the hepatic cases, are now in a dangerous way; discusses cases in more detail; two of the cases of dysentery have had their mouths completely affected by mercury; another patient has symptoms of hepatitis and scurvy in addition to dysentery - he is being treated with acid of limes with astringents; discusses two other cases and six cases of hepatitis, the first of whom, Foote, is treated using 'mercurials' in large doses and the nitric acid bath; also notes cases of scorbuties and venereal cases, who are all convalescing; mentions two cases of Hernio _ .
17-23 [August]page 17-19: [in McGrigor's handwriting]: of 65 sick in hospital, 28 are cases of dysentery, 11 are cases of hepatitis and 5 are scurvy.
23-30 August (pages 25-27)
31 August-6 September (pages 34-35)*
7-14 September (pages 43-44)
14-20 September (pages 50-51)
21-27 September (pages 58-59)
28 September-4 October (pages 65-66)
5-11 November (pages 71-72)
12-18 October (pages 76-77)*
19-25 October (pages 82-83)
26 October-1 November (pages 87-89)
2-8 November (pages 94-95)
9-15 November (pages 100-101)
16-22 November (pages 108-109)
[Page 114: remarks to the 29 November - incomplete.]
21 December (pages 119-120)
21-27 December (pages 127-128)
28 December-3 January 1801 (pages 132-133)
1801
4-10 January (pages 140-141)
11-17 January (pages 147-148)
18-24 January (pages 152-153)
25-31 January (pages 159-160)
15-21 February (pages 174-175)
22-28 February (pages 179-180)
1-7 March (pages 184-185)*
8-14 March (pages 188-189)
15-21 March (pages 192-193)
22-28 March (pages 196)
29 March-4 April (pages 197-198)
[Between pages 198 and 199 a scrap of paper is enclosed noting the page number that specific patients are referred to in the case book.]
5-11 April (pages 200-201)
12-18 April (page 203)
19-25 April (page 205)
26 April-2 May (pages 207-208)
3-9 May (page 209)
10-16 May (pages 210-211)
18-23 May (page 212)
23-31 May (pages 213-214)
1-13 June (page 215)
The report is rather favourable. Though there are three more cases than last report there are fewer serious cases in hospital than for some time.
13-21 June (pages 216-217)
21-30 June (pages 218-219)
28 June-4 July (pages 223-224)
4-11 July (pages 227-228)
12-18 July (pages 230-231)
19-25 July (page 233)
26 July-1 August (pages 235-236)
1-8 August (page 237)
8-15 August (pages 242-243)
15-22 August (page 248)
23-30 August (page 252)
30 August-5 September (page 256)
5-12 September (page 259)
13-19 September (page 262)
20-26 September (page 265)
27 September-3 October (pages 266-267)
3-10 October (page 272)
10-17 October (page 276)
[Page numbering becomes irregular at this point.]
17-24 October (page 290)
24-31 October (page 292)
1-7 November (page 293)
8-14 November (pages 298-299)
15-21 November (page 303)*
22-28 November (pages 312-313) [Some of the text is missing due to the page being torn.]
At the end of the volume there is an index and a list of 'Coolys' with a note of the pay they received, dated December 1800. |