Remarks on the scurvy as it appeared among the English prisoners in France, in the year 1795 : with an account of the effects of opium in that disease, and of the methods proper to render its use more extensive and easy; (written during his confinement in the Tower) / by R.T. Crosfeild.

  • Crosfeild, Robert Thomas, 1759-1802.
Date:
1797
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Credit: Remarks on the scurvy as it appeared among the English prisoners in France, in the year 1795 : with an account of the effects of opium in that disease, and of the methods proper to render its use more extensive and easy; (written during his confinement in the Tower) / by R.T. Crosfeild. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REMARKS ON THE SCURVY, &C. &C. • *-o-c- ■■ ■ r —■■—>-<>0* 1H E Sea Scurvy has been fo often and fo well treated upon, by various eminent authors, that any additional remarks may feem almoft fuperfluous. But as it has been my hap to ob- ferve a few fa£ls that may perhaps have been unnoticed by others in fimilar lituaticms, it ap- peared to me an indifpenlible duty to commit them to paper, in hopes that they may furnifh fome ufeful hints to my fellow-labourers in the medical art. The defcription of this difeafe, either with refpeft to its fymptoms, rife, or progrefs, is too well known to need repetition; 1 (hall, there- fore, content myfelf with remarking, that, among the Englilh prifoners in France, there was fcarcely any malady whofe appearance it did not put on, though a few days always cleared up the deception. That the fcurvy Ihould lurk under the mafk of rheumatifm or afthma was, indeed, nowife . , B furpriiing ; \