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.

  • Lind, James, 1716-1794.
Date:
1753
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    16 Critical Hijlory. Parti, troduces them to confirm the judgment he had formed of fuch difeafes. And it may be pro¬ per, in juftice to him, to take notice of them all; which I think may be properly referred to thefe two clafTes. ijl. Such fymptoms as the before mentioned conditions of pulfe and urine, that never were remarked in the fcurvy by any but himfelf; and feem indeed more peculiar to other dif- tempers; viz. recurring anxieties at the re¬ gion of the ftomach, under the diaphragm (f) ; »— a ball in the throat (t) ; — a tumor mo¬ ving from one part of the body to another (u); — retchings to vomit in the beginning of a fe¬ ver fx). 2(fly, Such as are common to this difeafe with many others; and which the authors who preceeded him, call the remote and doubtful fymptoms; viz. an qbtufe or dull pain of the legs, which he often mentions as a convincing proof of the fcurvy (y J;—deje&ion of mind (z); (f) P. 142. and in many other places. 0) p-154- (u) Diag. 23. p. 212. (x) P. 235. (y) P- HS* 201 • 20^* 216. 235* and particularly p. 50, (z) Obf. 15,