Observations on the scurvy : with a review of the theories lately advanced on that disease ; and the opinions of Dr. Milman refuted from practice / by Thomas Trotter, a surgeon in the British Navy, and member of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburg.

  • Trotter, Thomas, 1760-1832.
Date:
1793
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    faked provisions; and therefore to prevent it, we jnafb either fubflitute another in its place, or provide the Seamen with Something capable of correcting the hurtful qualities of this kind of food. For. the prevention of Scurvy, our navy h at prefent fupplied with elixir of vitriol, four krout, and eflence of v/ort. The firfi of theSe, recom- mended by the late Dr. Huxham, has been a long time ufed ; iand it Seems to have been introduced to practice from that delire for acids congenial to the difeafe. But we are Still left to doubt of any effects the elixir of vitriol pofTefTes in the cure of fcurvy. And, indeed, while we hold foir.c fault of the blood to be the proximate caufe, the diftppointment need not excite our wonder, iince it is incapable of being converted into animal fluids. Had that debility of the digeftive powers been prefent, which Dr. Milman alleges, from the confent the Stomach has with the reSt of the fyStem, it muit have been a powerful medicine. The fame reafoning may be applied to our disap- pointment of the effects of the cortex Peruvianus : If the patient at the attack of fcurvy was lick or convalescent, bark, as being the molt powerful tonic