UiXl] on SCURVY J«3 
recovered beyond, ami led towards Tent Island, then 
towards Inaccessible, then back to the bergs. Never was 
such an elusive thread. Darkness descended with the 
searchers on a strong seent for the Razor Hacks : Bowers 
returned full of hope. 
The Wretched Lassie has killed every one ol her litter. 
She is mother for the first lime, and possibly that accounts 
for it. When the poor little mites were alive she COD 
stantly left them, and when taken luck she either ttOO 
on them or lay on them, till not one was left alive. It is 
extremely annoying. 
As the d&ylight COmeS, people are busier than ever. 
It does one good to see so much work going on. 
Friday, August 18. -Atkinson lectured on i Scurvy * 
last night. He spoke clearly and slowly, but the disease 
is anything but precise, lie gave a little summary of 
its history afloat ami the remedies long in use in Navy. 
Me described the symptoms with some detail. Mental 
depression, debility, syncope, petechia*, livid patches, 
spongy gums, lesions, swellings, and so on to things that 
are worse, lb- passed to sonic ol the theories held and 
remedies tried in accordance with them. Ralph ( .one 
nearest the truth in discovering decrease of chlorine and 
alkalinity of urine. Sir Aim roth Wright has hit the 
truth, he thinks, in finding increased acidity of blood 
acid intoxication -by methods only possible in recent 
years. 
This acid condition is due to two salts, sodium hydrogen 
carbonate and sodium hydrogen phosphate; these cause 
the symptoms observed and infiltration ol fat in organs, 
