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almost unbroken, prevails throughout our dormitory,
and the watch officer, slips on his
bear skin and full of thoughts of tomorrow
resigns himself to a round of little routine
observances, the most worthless of
which is this, unbroken record of the changing
days.

Thurs.
Apr. 5th

The sick still improve slowly but sensibly.
John, Goodfellow, and Stephensen are the
most laggard. Bonsall to my great relief
reacts under the accumulated battery
of curatives which I explode upon him.
Petersen is the same, he will eat no raw meat.
Kane took the mass colchicum and an
an Indian vapour sweat, which seems to have
arrested his e[r]ruption and given him
relief. My [pricipal?] treatment among the
present stage of patients is by diuretics especially
cubebs. Nothing that I have tried
so soon softens the rigid effused legs
and knees of my people. Frictions and
cold water stand first upon my routine list
of remedies. Bark and Iron are given.
Surreptitiously in beer & tea [fine palates]
[They must have, the brutes!] but except
comphor dissolved in hot seal oil I use no
applications to the swelled limbs. Potash
fails now, and lime juice has lost its effect.

The eruption I have analysed at
last with the microscope, its primary form
in papular, but its characters are those
of a true erythema, complicated by
whelks like lichen and urticaria
If different from urticaria only in the
slight purple circle which invests the isolated
papules, a result due to the haemmorhagic
diathesis of the scurvy patient. The
whelks exactly resemble those of uticaria