The causes, nature, and treatment of scurvy : a paper read before the Covington and Newport (Ky.) Medical Society / by Charles S. Tripler.

  • Tripler, Chas. S. (Charles Stuart), 1806-1866.
Date:
[1858?]
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    THE CAUSES, NATUEE AND TREATMENT OF SCURVY A Paper read before the Covington and Newport (Ky.,) Medical Society, by CHARLES S. TRIPLER, M. D., Surgeon, U. S. Army. Among the many scourges that have afflicted the human race, and interposed serious impediments to the enterprises and pro- gress of man, Scurvy must be acknowledged to occupy an important place. If civilization has followed or been promoted by conquest, and if the comfort, the happiness and the wealth of the world have been increased by the enterprise and the dis- coveries of the navigator, a fearful element of the cost of one and all of them must be conceded to be the ravages of this ter- rible disease. When and where Scurvy first appeared, are matters of very little consequence. I shall occupy no more time upon its his- tory, than may be necessary to elucidate or establish the prac- tical view I propose to take of its etiology, pathology and treat- ment. Scurvy, was very probably known to the ancients. A recent writer, in a monograph upon another subject, asserts that it was known to Hippocrates. This assertion, however, was made by others long ago; but Copland thinks, there is nothing in his writings sufficient to warrant such an assumption; though in 2 —-—^ mh