Scorbutus

The approximation of these two cases to sea-scurvy is peculiar, and may allow them to be called scorbutus pulmonalis. ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

This indicates on the one hand that the substance is an acid, on the other hand that it has a counteracting effect on scurvy, the medical name of which is scorbutus; thus the word ascorbic acid is equivalent to anti-scurvy acid. ❋ Unknown (1966)

= Scurvy = — “scorbutus” of medical writers — is a disease which, even in its incipient and early stages, when its presence is often unsuspected, is most injurious to the skin and complexion. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

The name Buckbean is perhaps a corruption of _scorbutus_, scurvy; this giving it another title, "scurvy bean." ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

(_Synonyms: _ Scurvy; Sea Scurvy; Purpura Scorbutica.) #Describe scorbutus. ❋ Henry Weightman Stelwagon (1886)

"To his sagacity we are indebted for the first impulse to those regulations by which scorbutus is so successfully prevented in our navy." ❋ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1851)

Could those symptoms be owing to very extensive adhesions of the lungs? or is this a scorbutus pulmonalis? ❋ Erasmus Darwin (1766)

The name scurvy comes from the Latin scorbutus, and humans have known about the disease since ancient Greek and Egyptian times ... ❋ Unknown (2009)

Others are sheer folk etymology, like scheurbuik ` ripping belly 'for scurvy (Lat. scorbutus). ❋ Unknown (1983)