Therapeutic Scurvy

Scurvy

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.

Acute Scurvy

a profuse diarrhoea; the large stool containing much slime and being tinged with blood. The patient was sponged when the temperature passed 10i?. From this moment, however, rapid recovery ensued. The same evening the temperature was 102?; next morning 101? and next evening 100 30. The diarrhoea drew my attention to the condition of congestion and haemorrhage into the gut. I discontinued medicat...

Modern scurvy.

Scurvy is a disease that played an important role in ancient history and used to be a notorious cause of death in sailors. Nowadays, scurvy is not a common diagnosis in the civilized world, but this case report indicates that this old-fashioned disease is not extinct at all and still exists but in a different patient category.