A boy with a wounded thigh seated on a bed; a crutch to his right. Coloured stipple etching by J. Grant after J. Bell, ca. 1815.

As described by Bell, the boy called Joiner, like several others on the ship HMS Triumph, received a slight battle wound which healed rapidly, but then it developed into an ulcer which grew larger and more painful: hospital gangrene, in many cases fatal