SURGEON'S REPORT. 



July 13, 1829. — Our armourer was on tins day attacked with pulmonary inflamma- 

 tion ; he had, as we subsequently learned, previously suffered from the same malady, 

 and had not been long discharged from one of the London hospitals, when he proffered 

 his services in this expedition. It had been Sir John Ross's intention, soon after the com- 

 mencement of the voyage, to send him home in one of the whale ships, I having already 

 reported my patient as unfit for further service, but no opportunity presented itself for 

 his return. The poor fellow's case terminated in confirmed consumption, and, although 

 his death was probably in some degree accelerated by the severity of the climate, I think 

 that most likely his disease would have terminated fatally had he remained in England; 

 and I question whether, had he been at home, he could have received more attention, 

 or met with more kindness, even from his relatives, than he experienced at the hands of 

 his shipmates. One wish of his only remained ungratified — he dreaded having his 

 remains deposited in a foreign land, and often expressed vain regrets, that he could not 

 return home to expire on his native soil. 



July 27, 1829. — On this day, John Wood, seaman, aged twenty-two, a healthy and 

 robust young man, fractured both the bones of his left leg in jumping into the launch. 

 The cure was completed within two months by ordinary means, nature effecting the 

 union, and the doctor getting the credit of it. 



This man was, nine months after his recovery from this accident, severely afilicted 

 with sea-scurvy, and likewise, subsequently in 1833 ; and as it has been observed, 

 especially by the medical officers attached to Anson's expedition in his Voyage round 



