A treatise on the scurvy : containing a new, an easy, and effectual method of curing that diseases; the cause, and indications of cure, deduced from practice; and observations connected with the subject. With an appendix, consisting of five letters, respecting the success of a new antiscorbutic medicine / by D. Paterson.

  • Paterson, David, B.Sc.
Date:
1795
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Credit: A treatise on the scurvy : containing a new, an easy, and effectual method of curing that diseases; the cause, and indications of cure, deduced from practice; and observations connected with the subject. With an appendix, consisting of five letters, respecting the success of a new antiscorbutic medicine / by D. Paterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iDg the honour to accompany Vice Admi- ral George Murray to America, and flill being very anxious to afcertainmany points relative to the fcurvy, as well as Tome other difeafes, I renewed my obfervations and experiments. In the pafTage to America, which was tedious, the fcurvy foon making pts _ ap- pearance, I was, from reafons, which will afterwards appear, induced to try a folu- tion of nitre in common vinegar, in feveral cafes of the difeafe,; and, with inexpref- fible pleafure, I faw it fucceed. I fay in- expreffible pleafure, becaufe the opinions 1 had long entertained, not however with- out my doubts, were now grown into fads; becaufe I was fatisfied that the fcurvy might be cured, at fea, without the ailia- aiice of recent vegetable matter, a difco- very