A further inquiry into the comparative infrequency of calculous diseases among sea-faring people : with some observations on their frequency in Scotland / by Alex. Copland Hutchison.

Date:
1830
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    have been admitted into the only two naval hos- pitals kept open during these years, viz. Haslar and Plymouth, 21,910 patients of all descriptions; and, extraordinary as it may appear, there has not occurred in the whole number of officers, men, and boys employed in the British navy one case of stone from the 1st of Jan. 1816, to the 1st of Jan. 1829. It is true, however, that two patients with stone were, within this period, received into Haslar, and one into Plymouth Hospital, who were operated upon by the respective surgeons. The first at Haslar was a labourer employed in the King's Victualling Yard at Portsmouth, who had never been at sea, and the other (a young seaman be- longing to a revenue cruiser, the Stag), who did not belong to the naval service, and for whose ad- mission a particular order must have been given. I have ascertained at the Custom House that this man was serving on board the Stag on the 23d of May, 1829, having been discharged from the hos- pital cured. Mr. Farris, the commander of the Stag, says, he is 26 years of age, has been 13 years at sea, and has laboured under symptoms of stone since the early part of his youth. The third and last case was operated upon in Plymouth Hos- pital in March, 1828. He was a half-pay purser in the navy, 46 years of age, and had never been at sea since he obtained his first warrant as a purser, in 1799*. * Mr. Rhind, a lieutenant in the navy, on half-pay, was cut by Mr. Harnmick, as a private patient at Plymouth, in 1827. This