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character, nevertheless, was remarkably mild. The removal of the patient 
from his damp cabin, into a hammock in a dry part of the vessel, the substitu- 
tion of fresh meat and vegetable soup, instead of the salted portion of his diet, 
and a small additional allowance of lemon-juice sufficed to subdue every 
symptom in three weeks after the attack, and he braved the rest of the voyage 
on the diet of the ships’ company without any recurrence of the complaint. 
Early in March two more cases appeared almost simultaneously, one cor- 
responding closely to the foregoing in its origin and result ; the other differing, 
inasmuch as the subject was a man who had occupied one of the most com- 
fortable beds in the ship ; but he had been more than once, while in the ser- 
vice of the East India Company, a sufferer from scurvy ; his predisposition was 
also increased by a pernicious habit of eating pork slush. This substance is the 
more oily part of the fat, which has so great an affinity for the salt, that during 
the boiling they are discharged together, leaving the meat in a relative state 
of freshness. The use of this briny fat is strictly prohibited ; but this man 
was detected by the crew in the act of purloining and eating it, and they, 
with a praise-worthy zeal for the welfare of the Expedition, reported his 
delinquency, 
A fourth case shewed itself in April ; the patient was the Greenland mate, 
employed as a pilot. He had occupied a part of the gunner’s cabin, and had, 
consequently, been exposed to the more tardy operation of the same morbific 
agents. The remedies used in the first case, were equally successful in the 
others ; but I omitted to notice some auxiliary articles of food which, doubt- 
less, very much accelerated their recovery. These were occasional puddings 
of preserved fruits, and frequent small salads of mustard and cress forced, 
with some difficulty, by Captain Parry, in his cabin. 
A solitary case of diseased lungs occurred during the voyage, which, in its 
progress, was combined with scorbutic symptoms. As this case eventually 
proved fatal, I shall, at the request of Captain Parry, subjoin an abstract 
of it. ■ 
William Scott was entered on the sick list on the 12th of April, having an 
