Scelera aquarum: or, a supplement to Mr. Graunt on the bills of mortality. Shewing as well the causes, as encrease of the London, Parisian, and Amsterdam scorbute ... / By J.H. M.D.

  • J. H. (James Harvey)
Date:
1701
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Credit: Scelera aquarum: or, a supplement to Mr. Graunt on the bills of mortality. Shewing as well the causes, as encrease of the London, Parisian, and Amsterdam scorbute ... / By J.H. M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Erofions of the Stomachy and Intefiines% call’d. Gripes in the Guty and Convulfions pf the Bowels: From which familiar Symptoms; of Poifon, the German Scorbute hath his Etymon. Nor had 1 attempted it then, uaiefs I had beheld the like ill Confequence on Shipboard, as well as on the Terra-Ferma> and withal from the fame Envenom’d Hands. But as foon as I obferved that difmal Effeft, Anno 1690, that a third part of the Equipage of the Royal Navy, to the number of 4000 Marines were fwept at a Blow, from on Board the King’s Ships, of the like Erofions of the Stomach and Bowels, and all buried together in the felf fame Grave in Torbay: And that I faw the Nature of the Poifon enquired into * together, with the manner of its Exiftence in the Beer of the Mariners, and all this own’d by a Parliament, I thought it high time for every one to open his Budget. Then it was, and not till then, that 1 could perfwade my felf to lead the way, towards the breaking the Ice on the Morbifick Nature, and Infalubrity of the Elements, call'd, Scelera aqua <&r Locorum : In order to explain it, fo as to (hew its moft latent Qualities* together, with its Locality and and manner of Exiftence, both in the Earth and Water. Andfincel have acquired a diftinft Knowledge of all thefe Matters from thofe very Perfons, who did Traffick in, and Wrought up the fame ^ and befides, were concerned in the fale of the Poifon, Anno 1690. I conceive I (hould be wan¬ ting in my Duty to God, and in Natural Affe&ion to my Native Country, did 1 not ufe my poor and weak Endeavours to reprefenc the Poifon, both of City and Navy, to theCon- fideration and Wifdom of a Parliament, with what Humili¬ ty it becomes me to do. 1 have hitherto (hewn, by way of Introdu&ion, the general Scope of this Vifcour/e : Now, before I proceed to the Patholo- gtcal Part of the defigned Supplement^ that refpe&s theCaufes of the Scorbute; I fhali firftpremife the Arithmetical Part there* of, which relates to the Rife, Antiquity, and Encreafe of the Difeafe in every City, and Country of Europe. But to the end, I may give the Reader a particular Account of each Symptomatical Branch, enumerated in the abovefaid Lift; It’s requifice I fhould trace them all up, to the Horafcofe of the Difeafe in Afia, and (hew how compounded, arid how B a al- i> «