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their practice, tho obliged for the most part to obtain our own water thru artificial heat.

Not allow men to remain in wet clothes --
Habitation well ventilated warm & dry --
Not exposed long to cold --
Exercise - mind & body --
No brooding over Evil 
No spiritous liquor [[encircled]] 615 [[/encircled]] [[encircled]] 616 [[/encircled]]
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[[strikethrough]] Ch [[/strikethrough Allowance of bread & salt meat reduced - scurvy increased but yielded to lemon juice & spruce Beer [[encircled]] 618 [[/encircled]]

Christmas day a holiday in all senses. A round of Beef from Fury's store 8 years was as good as the day it was [[underline]] cooked [[/underline]] (!) 619

Preserved food [[encircled]] 620 [[/encircled]]
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Dec (3rd winter) men much reduced in strength but the scurvy had been kept in check [[encircled]] 621 [[/encircled]]
 
Dec 31 Dixon ^[[by a]] complication of disorders expected not to survive
Jan 10 Died -

[[strikethrough]] Jan 3 [[/strikethrough]] Jan 31/32 Our medical report now begins to be very different from what it hitherto been. [[encircled]] 626 [[/encircled]]
All were much enfeebled & there was much ailment without any marked disease  An old wound in my ^[[own]] side had broken out with bleeding & I knew well this was some indication of scurvy [[encircled]] 626 [[/encircled]]