An edition of A treatise on the scurvy, in three parts .. (1756)

A Treatise on the Scurvy.

In Three Parts. Containing An Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and Cure, of that Disease. Together with A Critical and Chronological View of what has been published on the Subject.

The Third Edition, enlarged and improved.

by James Lind, John Hayman, and Paterson, David B. Sc

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An edition of A treatise on the scurvy, in three parts .. (1756)

A Treatise on the Scurvy.

In Three Parts. Containing An Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and Cure, of that Disease. Together with A Critical and Chronological View of what has been published on the Subject.

The Third Edition, enlarged and improved.

by James Lind, John Hayman, and Paterson, David B. Sc

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Lind’s discovery that food rich in vitamin C provided a cure for scurvy spurred England’s subsequent naval supremacy and putatively changed the course of history.

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1772

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Printed for S. Crowder, D. Wilson and G. Nicholls, T. Cadell, T. Becket and Co., G. Pearch, and W. Woodfall.

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1 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 1795, Printed for Manners and Miller in English	bbbb Read Listen
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PART I.

Preliminary Discourses.

Page Page

CHAP. I. A Critical history of the different accounts of this disease Page 1 CHAP. II. Of the several divisions of this disease, viz. into scurvies cold and hot, acid and alcaline, &c. Page 17 CHAP. III. Of the distinction commonly made into a land and sea scurvy Page 29 CHAP. IV. Of the scurvy being connate, hereditary, and infectious Page 40

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PART II.

CHAP. I. The true causes of the disease, from observations made upon it, both at sea and land Page 44 CHAP. II. The diagnostics, or symptoms Page 98 CHAP. III. The prognostics Page 129 CHAP. IV. The prophylaxis, or means of preventing this disease, especially at sea Page 138 CHAP. V. The cure of the disease, and its symptoms Page 194 CHAP. VI. The theory Page 226 CHAP. VII. Dissections Page 239 CHAP. VIII. The nature of the symptoms, deduced and explained from the foregoing theory and dissections Page 245 CHAP. IX. The supplement Page 256

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PART III.

CHAP. I. Passages in ancient authors, supposed to refer to the scurvy; together with the first accounts of it Page 283 CHAP. II. Bibliotheca scorbutica: or, A chronological view of what has hitherto been published on the scurvy Page 302

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POSTSCRIPT.

SECT I. Appearances on dissection of scorbutic bodies Page 495 SECT II. Effects of the scurvy on other diseases Page 504 SECT III. State of the blood and secretions in the scurvy Page 511 SECT IV. Observations on the causes productive of the scurvy Page 516 SECT V. The cure Page 520 SECT VI. Further observations on the cure. Conclusion Page 533 Appendix Page 545

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indices.

ESTC, T149729

Published in: London

The Physical Object

Format: Hardcover
Pagination: xiv, [2], 559, [1] p.
Number of pages: 582

ID Numbers

Open Library: OL24970496M
Internet Archive: treatiseonscurvy1772lind
OCLC/WorldCat: 5861584

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A Treatise on the Scurvy.

In Three Parts. Containing An Inquiry into the Nature, Causes, and Cure, of that Disease. Together with A Critical and Chronological View of what has been published on the Subject.

by James Lind, John Hayman, and Paterson, David B. Sc