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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    ' t (. ’ [ 71 ] hot and very moifl: places in fbme parts of the coaft of Africa, might be ferviceable in fcurvies, as they are attended with figns of putrefaction. But If the difference of the two difeafes be confidered, the one attended with a fever, and which in thofe hot countries has com¬ monly at firft more or lefs of in- termiflion or remiffion, and the putrefaction inftantaneous, arif- ing from an epedemical contagion, whereas the other is chronic, and. the putrid fymptoms advance gra¬ dually without any fever, the ana- logy