Practical thoughts on the prevention and cure of the scurvy : especially in the British Navy / By William Jervey.

  • Jervey, William.
Date:
1769
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical thoughts on the prevention and cure of the scurvy : especially in the British Navy / By William Jervey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/92 (page 3)
    whether it was at all known to them ; yet as they have defcribed' fome of the ^ principal pathogno¬ monic fymptoms, which appear not but under a fcorbutic habit, we feem to have reafon to acquiefce in the opinion of Boerhaave']', HofmanJ, and many others, that it was not altogether unknown, or undefcribed by them, though then not fb fully, as long voyages into extreme cold countries, the chief .producers of it in its lefs complicate appearance, were then ^ Hippocrat. de intern. afFea. Vand. Linden, § 34. t Boerhaavii Aphorifm, 1148. t Hofman. de Scorbut. § 4. lefs