Scurvy, Past and Present

The identity of scurvy in the infant, in the young child and in the adult is thoroughly established and requires no further substantiation. There are, however, sufficient differ...

At the outset it may be stated that there is no longer any reason to doubt that adult scurvy and infantile scurvy are one and the same disease, having an identical pathogenesis....

In the foregoing there has been frequent reference to the close relationship between scurvy and the incidence of the infectious diseases--to the fact that a scorbutic condition...

=Historical Review.=[39]--It is impossible to state when and how the knowledge of the value of antiscorbutic foodstuffs came to be appreciated. It is probable that the potency o...

There is no mention whatsoever of scurvy in animals previous to 1895, when Theobald Smith wrote: "When guinea-pigs are fed with cereal (it has been observed for some years in th...

Physicians have had a general knowledge of the pathology of scurvy for a great many years. Lind, in his "Treatise on the Scurvy," published in 1772, included a chapter on "disse...

=Outbreaks on Land.=--Like many other diseases, the life history of scurvy shows several distinct phases. We hear of it first as a plague, infesting armies and besieged towns; t...

[22] Vitamine is used throughout this monograph as synonymous with "accessory food factor" or "food hormone" as a convenient descriptive term, without any intention of connoting...

"Seek the cure of scurvy neither in the armamentarium of the physician nor in the apothecary shops. The druggist will be of as little aid to you as the art of the surgeon. On th...

Studies of the chemical exchanges in scurvy have been surprisingly few. It is a field that should repay investigation, promising to afford a clearer insight into the intermediar...

The outcome of scurvy, as we encounter it in peace time in the Temperate Zone, is generally favorable, so that it plays but an insignificant rôle in our mortality statistics. Th...

IN INFANTS: (_a_) ACUTE; (b) SUBACUTE; (_c_) LATENT.--HEMORRHAGE OF GUMS; SUBPERIOSTEAL HEMORRHAGE: SKIN; MUCOUS MEMBRANES AND SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUES; HEMORRHAGES OF INTERNAL ORGA...