Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus

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Overview

Eshelby is already on Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797. He amputated Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview’s right arm above the elbow aboard HMS Theseus — Overview.¹

The Surgical Log

This note covers that surgical log only. Birth, death, and a later career stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE.

Eshelby’s surgical log records the operation at 11pm on 24 July 1797. Nelson was conscious. He was writing dispatches with his left hand within days. The 11pm figure is White p.112. Some accounts time the operation differently; that contest stays on the Tenerife note.²

Sources

• @white2005nelson — p.112
• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797

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Footnotes

1. Eshelby amputated the right arm above the elbow aboard Theseus: Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797, citing White p.112. ↩

2. Surgical log 11pm, 24 July 1797; Nelson conscious; writing left-handed within days: same note, White p.112. Do not use White p.119. Do not invent birth, death, or a later career. ↩