MEDICAL REPORT 



feet, our temperatures were on several occasions reduced 

 to 94° Fahr., rising to 97° or 98° after we had eaten a hot 

 though scanty meal. Frost-bites were more frequent at 

 these times, and it was more difficult to restore the part 

 attacked. 



It is an interesting fact that the members of the expe- 

 dition did not suffer from colds during their stay in the 

 Antarctic save in August 1908, when a bale of new cloth- 

 ing was opened in the hut, and all the men were at once 

 seized with acute nasal catarrh. The symptoms were 

 quickly dispelled when we took exercise in the open, and 

 those who remained in the hut recovered after two or three 

 days. 



On the return of the expedition to New Zealand the 

 Nimrod laid up for one day at the mouth of Lord's river, 

 Stewart's Island, and a number of the staff went ashore 

 to bathe and fish, &c. All who went ashore suffered con- 

 siderably from the inflammation caused by the bites of 

 sand flies, yet it was only those members, who, on arrival 

 at Lyttelton and Christchurch, New Zealand, who were 

 not immediately seized with colds. 



The expedition was not entirely free from accidents, 

 for on arrival at the ice in January 1909, A. L. A. Mack- 

 intosh was struck in the right eye by a hook while unload- 

 ing cargo.. The accident necessitated the immediate re- 

 moval of the eye. His recovery was extremely satisfac- 

 tory, so that on the fourth day he was able to get about. 

 This, however, prevented him from remaining with the 

 shore staff, as it was deemed necessary that he should re- 

 turn to Australia. 



During the ascent of Mount Erebus, Brocklehurst, 

 while wearing ski-boots, was frost-bitten in both feet, 

 eight toes being affected. Under treatment seven re- 

 covered, but the great toe of the left foot showed no signs 

 of improvement, and ultimately, dry gangrene having set 



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