Mending very fast, able to walk about the room. The swelling gone away, my throat got well, but my mouth is very sore, which I wash every two hours with Vinegar. I understand the Doctor sends every day to enquire how I do. Had it not been for the extraordinary care of Captn. Knox, I must certainly have died.
SOURCE: Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell 1774—1777, pp. 24-5
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