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184/ during the illness and after the death of the late Rev. Vashon Chaplain under as had asked the appointment of the then Superintendent of Trave, Captain Elliot, R.M., excepting for a little more than four months in 1840, during which he suffered imprisonment in Canton.
It was at masses in the year of 1839 that he contracted the Hæmorrhoids, which disease increased to such an alarming extent in the summer of 1844 (after his return to this place), and with diarrhoea and fever superadded laid him aside entirely for nearly five months.
Operations performed by my late esteemed friend Dr. F. Dill, Colonial Surgeon, with the assistance of Dr. Wilson, R.M., and Fr. Parratt, R.A., in December 1844 and January 1845 relieved him of the hemorrhoids, but the long drain upon his system has prevented his regaining his wonted vigour.
On my arrival here in 1845 until the present time I have attended upon Mr. Stanton; and the diseases, under which he has laboured, are Remittent and Intermittent Fevers, Catarrhal affections, Hæmorrhoids, and excessive debility and prostration.
Observing with alarm that, although he partially rallied from his debility during the cold season, yet it was evidently increasing upon him year after year, I urged hims