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[DS23]

and it gave a predisposition to the healthy to imbibe the contaigion, lassitute and despondency being its powerful auxiliaries.

[DS23]

assisted by the great heat, the fever appeared to decompose the very substance of the blood;

[DS23]

and its progress was so rapid, that no medicine could operate before death closed the scene of suffering.

[DS23]

i had no surgeon on board, and from a medicine chest i in vain administered the common remedies.

[BrowneIssue]

DS23: this will be your The Fever Ship translation, yes?

[DS23]

arrr captain. transcription would be a better term than translate though.

[DS23]

but what remedies could be expected to act with efficacy, where the disease destroyed life almost as quickly as the current of life circulated?

[DS23]

i had but five men able to do duty, and never can i forget my feelings when three of these were taken ill on the fourth day of our unhappy inactivity.

[DS23]

one of the sick expired, as i stood by his cot, in horrible convulsions.

[DS23]

his skin was of a deep saffron hue; watery blood oozed from every pore, and from the corners of his eyes; he seemed dissolving into blood, liquifying into death.