The emplastrum de minio made to cover the whole of a swelled leg in this manner, whether the swelling is hard, which is usually termed scorbutic; or more easily compressible, as in anasarca, reduces the limb in two or three days to its natural size; for this purpose ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
All the cresses are anti-scorbutic, that is, useful against the scurvy. ❋ Florence Daniel (N/A)
When these capillary glands become inflamed, a still more viscid or even cretaceous humour is produced upon the surfaces of the membranes, which is the cause or the effect of rheumatism, gout, leprosy, and of hard tumours of the legs, which are generally termed scorbutic; all which will be treated of hereafter. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)
[Page 71] * In the diseases produced by bad food, such as scorbutic dysentery and diarrhoea, the patient's stomach often craves for and digests things, some of which certainly would be laid down in no dietary that ever was invented for sick, and especially not for such sick. ❋ Unknown (1860)
Our men began again to fall sick, and two of them dropped down on the deck in a kind of scorbutic appoplexy, but recovered on being let blood. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Army doctors on the frontier learned to use the needles as a scorbutic. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)
To prevent scurvy we used the juice of the maguey plant, called pulque, and to obtain a supply of this anti-scorbutic I was often detailed to march the company out about forty miles, cut the plant, load up two or three wagons with the stalks, and carry them to camp. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I know that raw meat diet is supposedly anti-scorbutic. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Aden in the lowlands of Tehámah also called Abyana from a man (who found it?), built upon the seashore, a station (for land travellers) and a sailing-place for merchant ships India-bound, is dry and sunparcht (Kashifah, squalid, scorbutic) and sweet water must be imported. ❋ Unknown (2006)
‘Sawyer,’ said the scorbutic youth, in a loud voice. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Three or four generations have become deaf or blind, gouty or scorbutic, at a predetermined period. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The belligerents vented their feelings of mutual contempt, for some time, in a variety of frownings and snortings, until at last the scorbutic youth felt it necessary to come to a more explicit understanding on the matter; when the following clear understanding took place. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Another knock at the door announced a large – headed young man in a black wig, who brought with him a scorbutic youth in a long stock. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Our meals had to consist mainly of seal and penguin; and though this was valuable as an anti – scorbutic, so much so that not a single case of scurvy occurred amongst the party, yet it was a badly adjusted diet, and we felt rather weak and enervated in consequence. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I say, that where a mother is unhealthy; subject to communicative distempers, as scrophulous or scorbutic, or consumptive disorders, which have infected the blood or lungs; or where they have not plenty of nourishment for the child, that in these cases, a dispensation lies of course. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The different forms of fruit, and also of vegetables, owe their great value to the fact that they possess powerful anti-scorbutic properties. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is questionable, however, whether the disease is due to this fact alone, since beef tea, which contains a good deal of potash, may be given freely to a scorbutic patient, yet he fails to recover till proper anti-scorbutic diet is supplied. ❋ Unknown (2004)
