Eshelby’s Surgical Log — 24 July 1797

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. A surgeon’s log on an orlop table. Not a portrait and not a facsimile of the real pages.

Overview

The log is already on Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus and Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797. Eshelby’s surgical log records the operation at 11pm on 24 July 1797.¹

The Record

This note covers that official record only. Archive class-mark, later logs, and a full transcript stay on RESEARCH_QUEUE. Spoken lines stay on the Tenerife note and the source card, not here.

The arm was removed above the elbow aboard HMS Theseus — Overview. Nelson Horatio — Biography Overview 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
• Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus
• Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797

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Footnotes

1. Surgical log records the operation at 11pm on 24 July 1797: Eshelby Thomas — Surgeon HMS Theseus and Nelson — Loss of Arm at Tenerife 1797, citing White p.112. ↩

2. Above the elbow; conscious; writing left-handed within days: same notes. Do not invent an archive class-mark, later logs, or a transcript. Do not recopy spoken lines. Do not use White p.119. ↩