An historical account of a new method of treating the scurvy at sea : containing ten cases, which shew that this destructive disease may be easily and effectually cured without the aid of fresh vegetable diet / By David MacBride.

  • David Macbride
Date:
1767
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An historical account of a new method of treating the scurvy at sea : containing ten cases, which shew that this destructive disease may be easily and effectually cured without the aid of fresh vegetable diet / By David MacBride. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    c examined every Week, and they were c obliged always to keep themfelves clean ‘ under penalty of having their Allowance ‘ of Spirits flopt. c The Cure of thefe Fluxes was accom- * plifhed by bleeding, in the firft Place, an c Emetic in the Evening, and a Dofe of c Rhubarb with a few Grains of Nut- ‘ meg the enfuing Morning: When the c Symptoms did not yield to thefe Means, I ‘ had recourfe to the Ipecacuan in fmali c Doles, of four or five Grains, repeated € for three or four Times at the Interval of c four Hours. i c From December 5th to the 18th—Fair 1 Weather and little Sicknefs; the Mercu- ry continued about 79—but this Night, * it fell all at once to 69, the Wind change * ing to the Southward. c From December 18th to January 8th, c 1766, the Day on which we arrived at _ s c Port Egmont (in the Falkland IJlands, off £ the Coaft of Patagonia, in the Latitude of 6 52 South) we had a good deal of fiormy
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