A treatise of the scurvy, in three parts. Containing an inquiry into the nature, causes, and cure, of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject / By James Lind.

  • James Lind
Date:
1753
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Credit: A treatise of the scurvy, in three parts. Containing an inquiry into the nature, causes, and cure, of that disease. Together with a critical and chronological view of what has been published on the subject / By James Lind. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    But where Wierus tranfcribes the fymptoms from this laft author, (which he does alnioft verbatimJ, upon this occafion he very juftly differs from him. He obferves, that the fcur- vy is not properly the crijts of a fever; but, like many other difeafes, may be occafioned after it by unfound vifcera, and a vitiated ftate of blood. He imagines people were induced to believe it a contagious malady, by feeing many whole families alike affected; but this he afcribed to the famenefs of their diet. He was however deceived (probably by the authority of Ecbtbius) in thinking, that where the gums were putrid, the difeale might be infectious: and accordingly makes it a doubt, whether in fome parts of the Lower Germany, where it had lately appeared, it was owing to their diet, or to infection. But it {hall be fully proved hereafter, that the fcur- vy is not contagious or infectious (d). It may be proper to obferve further, that Wierus had defcribed the various and extraor¬ dinary fymptoms of this malady, in fo accurate a manner, that the fucceeding authors for a long time did nothing more than copy him. It was a confiderable time afterwards, when (d) Chap. 4, A z Solomon The numbers correspond with those in the complete chronological list of publications.
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