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Scorbutic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or having or resembling scurvy.





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... of the Rheumatism, which he calls scorbutic, says; that after it had resisted Bleeding, Purging, low Diet, and other Remedies, he has cured it by giving thrice a Day two Drachms of an Electuary made of conserv. cochlear. horten. recent. unc. ij. lujul. unc. i. pulv. ar. comp. drachm vi. cum syrup. aurant. q. s. ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro
... furnished us, some lemon-juice and sugar were not the least acceptable; two or three of the men having for some days past suffered from oedematous swellings of the legs, and evinced other symptoms apparently scorbutic, but which soon improved after administering this ...
— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry
... it often produced putrid fevers, pleurisies, jaundice, and violent rheumatic pains, and sometimes occasioned obstinate costiveness, which was generally attended with a difficulty of breathing, and this was esteemed the most deadly of all the scorbutic symptoms. At other times the whole body, but more especially the legs, were subject to ulcers of the worst kind, attended by rotten bones, and such a luxuriance of fungous flesh as yielded to no remedy. The most extraordinary circumstance, ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 • Robert Kerr


Words linked to "Scorbutic" :   scorbutus, scurvy


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