Practical thoughts on the prevention and cure of the scurvy : especially in the British Navy / By William Jervey.

  • Jervey, William
Date:
1769
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Credit: Practical thoughts on the prevention and cure of the scurvy : especially in the British Navy / By William Jervey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] cefFary diftincflions, it being com¬ mon then, as Hofman* obferves, to call almoft every chronic or cuta¬ neous diforder by that name. Al¬ though we have no caufe I think to doubt, but that at land it may be very often complicate with other difeafes, as fome of our beft prac¬ tical writers afford us cafes of that * Hofman. de Scorbut. § i. ^ Hinc nihil in praxi medica eft folennius, nihil ufitatius, quam ut Cachexia, Arthri¬ tis, Dyfpnoea, Paralyfis, Eryfipelas, Colica, Atrophia, Rheumatifmus, Purpura, aliaeque plures hujus generis adfedtiones inter Scor- buticos numerentur, kind,