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even after he was cured, his voice was harsh for a 

 whole year. 



When some weeks after our arrival salmon * was 

 caught in abundance, and the crew had it every 

 day for dinner, fi-equent diarrhoeas ensued, either 

 because the cook did not always boil the fish 

 enough, or because they ate too much of it, after 

 having been so long deprived of fresh provisions. 

 At first I was for treating these, like usual cases of 

 diarrhoea, arising from catching cold, not supposing 

 the fish to be the cause, and administered slight 

 stimulants and stomachics, upon which, however, 

 head-aches and sickness at the stomach followed. 

 Upon this I gave an emetic, on which the patients 

 w^ere immediately better, and some stomachic me- 

 dicine put an end to the whole illness in a few 

 days. In the case of one sailor, who had a very 

 slight attack of the disorder, I thought it unne- 

 cessary to give an emetic, and began at once witli 

 stomachics ; but he was seized as the others had 

 been, and I was obliged to have recourse to the 

 first remedy. 



Till the salmon came in, the crew received 

 daily a sufficient quantity of fresh cod t ; but no- 

 body complained of intestinal worms, though the 

 cod here abound in them, for which reason the 



* Salmo Lycaodon. Pallas Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, 

 torn. iii. p. 370. 



-j- Gadus Wachna, Pallas Zoographia Rosso-Asiatica, 

 torn. iii. p. 182. 



