THE CAUSATION OF SCURVY.

Scurvy

The Anemia of Scurvy

1. Weight loss, progressive anemia, and a moderate increase in reticulated red blood cells occurred in seventeen guinea pigs on a diet deficient in vitamin C. 2. The histological changes of the bone marrow removed from guinea pigs with scurvy showed large numbers of erythrogenic cells, but scant evidence of active maturation to the adult erythrocyte. 3. A reticulocyte response was induced in gu...

The conquest of scurvy.

THE YEAR 1953 is a "centenary year" in the history of scurvy. It is the bicentenary of the publication of James Lind's monumental. A Treatise of the Scurvy (1) which was commemorated in May, 1953 in a two-day international conference of nutritionists at Lind's alma mater, the University of Edinburgh. World honors came tardily to this Scot physician to whom the sciences of nutrition and dietetic...

Scurvy

Scurvy

People write to ask me if the dose is to be half a drachm or half an ounce, so it is as well to say half an ounce unmistakably, or the drug might fall into undeserved disrepute. I am asked if the patients whose swollen legs I describe may not have been suifering from Beri-beri. I believe not. The cases yielded readily to the usual antiscorbutic treatment, while Beri-beri requires turpentine.