Bryan Spollan

Level 347

Maureen Withey on 30th October 2024

Folios 15-17: Bryan Spallin, aged 17, prisoner; taken ill at sea; sick or hurt, dysentery; put on sick list 31 December 1828, died 4 January 1829 at about 10 am. Folio 15: 1 January 1829; there are two circumstances which I have remarked with respect to the cases of dysentery which have occurred and which has been common to them all, namely, however small the pulse might be at the wrist, the action of the abdominal aorta was very great and easily to be felt, a little on the left side of the umbilicus; and the blood came from the vein saltation, so that one might suppose that an artery had been [atened] and the first and second bleeding seldom shewed any buff although the following bleeding would. Secondly the disease appears to be situated in the sigmoid flexure of the colon, and commencement of the rectum; for as the abdomen is always much flattened the rectum and colon can easily be felt through the integuments; round hardened and thickened. It is also sore when pressed with the hand, and the only part of the abdomen, which is tender on pressure; the situation of the greatest hardness and soreness is where the intestine lies over the brim of the pelvis, in the left iliac region. Folios 17-18: 4 January 1829; [abstract of post motem of Bryan Spallin] in the evening Mr Assistant surgeon Russell of the 63rd Regiment and myself opened the body of Bryan Spallin, we found the rectum was much diseased. The whole substance of it was thickened the mucous coat particularly highly vascular, numerous ulcers about the size of diameter of a pea some larger some smaller covered the mucus coat, and intestine contained a large quantity of pus. The patches of the intestine not ulcerated was covered with a layer of coagulable lymph firmly adhering.

Level 221

D Wong on 25th August 2015

Bryan Spollan died at sea in 1829. There was another Bryan Spollin/Spalding on the Britannia 1796.