An acquired blood vessel disorder caused by severe deficiency of vitamin C (ASCORBIC ACID) in the diet leading to defective collagen formation in small blood vessels. Scurvy is characterized by bleeding in any tissue, weakness, ANEMIA, spongy gums, and a brawny induration of the muscles of the calves and legs.
    

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The floral emblems of purity are the white lily & the star of Bethlehem : for purity of blood use Frazer's Sulphur Tablets : test them free of charge.

The works of the late William Stark : consisting of clinical and anatomical observations, with experiments, dietetical and statical / revised and published from his original mss. by James Carmichael Smyth.

George Jones of London : Student in the Art of Physick and Chyrurgery for about Thirty years, is now resident at his house in Hatton-Garden, where he hath lived for above seven years : His Friendly Pills: they are the true tincture of the sun ... / George Jones.

C : Escorbul vitamina  C - en glicol propileno - gotas / Laboratorios Lex.

A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire.

Nouvelle méthode pour pomper le mauvais air des vaisseaux, &c / par Samuel Sutton. Avec une dissertation sur le scorbut, par le Docteur Mead, et une suite d'expériences du Docteur Desaguliers, sur les moyens d'échauffer l'air, de le renouveller, &c. Ourvages traduits de l'anglais par M. Lavirotte.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.

A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies ; illustrated by cases and appearances on dissection : to which are added, practical treatises on scorbutic dysentery, on the morbus chylopoieticus and gastrodynia a fame ; with some facts and observations relative to scurvy in general, and a short account of the scorbutic disease that appeared at the Penitentiary, Millbank, Westminster / By R.W. Bampfield, Esq. Surgeon.

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Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.