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  • A treatise on the method of curing the gout, scurvy, leprosy, elephantiasis, evil, and other cutaneous eruptions : shewing the rise and progress of those diseases, and by what medicines they may be cured illustrated by many cases extracted from the writings of the most eminent men of the faculty, and the author's own observations the whole interspersed with a variety of efficacious receipts, collected, and now published for the good of the public ... / by F. Spilsbury.

    • Spilsbury, Francis.
    Date
    [1775?]
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  • Morbus anglicanus sanatus, or, A remarkable cure of an inveterate scurvy ... / in a letter from a country clergyman to his son in London. Concluding with a contrivance or two, for saving the lives of those, who shall happen to be in the upper rooms of a house, when the lower are on fire.

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    1766
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  • Dissertatio inauguralis, de scorbuto, quam, Anncente summo numine, Ex Auctoritate Reverendi admodum Viri, D. Gulielmi Robertson, S. S. T. P. Academiae Edinburgenae Praefecti; Nec non Amplissimi Senatus Academici consensu, Et nobilissimae Facultatis Medicae decreto; pro gradu doctoratus, Summisque in Medicina Honoribus et privilegiis rite et legitime consequendis; eruditorum examini subjicit Jacobus Home, Britannus, Soc. Med. Reg. Edin. Sod. Ext. Soc. Phy. Soc. Hon. Ad diem 12. Septembris, hora locoque solitis.

    • Home, James, 1760-1844.
    Date
    M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]
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  • A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies ; illustrated by cases and appearances on dissection : to which are added, practical treatises on scorbutic dysentery, on the morbus chylopoieticus and gastrodynia a fame ; with some facts and observations relative to scurvy in general, and a short account of the scorbutic disease that appeared at the Penitentiary, Millbank, Westminster / By R.W. Bampfield, Esq. Surgeon.

    • Bampfield, R W. (Robert William), -1827.
    Date
    1823
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  • Observations on the diseases of seamen / by Gilbert Blane.

    • Blane, Gilbert, Sir, 1749-1834.
    Date
    MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
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  • Dissertatione medica inaugurali cautiones in cognoscendo curandoque scorbuto necessarias ... / auctor et respondens Samuel Christoph. Ursinus.

    • Ursinus, Samuel Christoph.
    Date
    [1712]
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  • An essay on the sea-scurvy: wherein is proposed an easy method of curing that distemper at sea; and of preserving water sweet for any cruize or voyage. By Anthony Addington, M.D.

    • Addington, Anthony, 1713-1790.
    Date
    MDCCLIII. [1753]
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  • Pharmaceutice rationalis: or, An exercitation of the operations of medicines in humane bodies : Shewing the signs, causes, and cures of most distempers incident thereunto. : In two parts. : As also a treatise of the scurvy and the several sorts thereof, with their symptoms, causes, and cure. / By Tho. Willis.

    • Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.
    Date
    1679
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  • Miscellanea Medica

    Date
    Late 17th Century
    Reference
    MS.MSL.11
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  • Dissertatio medica inauguralis, quaedam de scorbuto colligens ... / Eruditorum examini subjicit Henricus Luxmoore, Anglus.

    • Luxmore, Henry.
    Date
    1787
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