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"the disease advances, other symptoms come on; as rottenness of ig 
or new beer, or fresh cider, will seldom fail to 
the stomach, and invigorate the system. 
SCURVY. is aca: 
The scurvy is a diseased state of all the fluids. It prevails chiefly 
in cold northern countries, especially in low damp situations, near 
large marshes, or great quantities of stagnating water. It often 
proves fatal to sailors on long voyages, particularly in ships that are. 
not properly ventilated, or where cleanliness is neglected, 
The land scurvy is not so severe in degree as the sea scurvy, the 
latter being attended with putrid symptoms. age? Pal 
Cavses.—An acidity, acrimony, or (at sea) a putrefactive quality 
in the blood, often introduced by a moist air, obstructed perspiration, 
putrid water, poorness of blood; the continual use of salted, or 
smoke-dried provisions, or any kind of food that is lard of digestion 
and affords little nourishment. Surfeits, as they are called, and 
scorbutic eruptions, originate from the too liberal use of vegetables. 
Symproms.—An acute pain inthe head; universal weariness, 
heaviness, and difficulty of breathing, especially after motion ; 1 t- 
tenness of the gums, which are apt to bleed on the slightest touch; — 
a stinking breath; frequent bleeding at the nose; crackling of the 
joints; difficulty of walking ; sometimes a swelling and sometimes 
a falling away of the legs, on which there are livid, yellow, or violet _ 
colored spots. ‘The face is generally of a pale or leaden color. 
the teeth, discharges of blood from different parts of the body; foul 
obstinate ulcers, pains in various parts, especially about the breast, 
dry scaly eruptions all over the body, &c. At last, a wasting, hectic 
fever comes on, and the miserable patient is often carried off by a 
dysentery, diarrhea, a dropsy, the palsy, fainting fits, or a mort 
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eation of some of the bowels. 
_ Tue Cure.—We know of no way of curing this di 
pursuing a plan directly opposite to that which brir 
receeds from a vitiated state of the humors, occasioned by err 
Pexercise. The cure, therefore, is to be effected 
on of these important articles. ae 
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proper re 
if the patient has heen obliged to breathe a cold, damp, or con- 
fined air, he should be removed to a dry, open, and moderately = 
warmone. Ifthe disease proceeds from a sedentary life, or depres- _ 
sing passions, the patient must take exercise,and keep cheerful 
company. Mas oe 
When the scurvy has been brought on by a long use of salted 
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ns, the proper medicine is a diet consisting chiefly of fresh 
as oranges, apples, horse-radish, scurvy grass, 
smellage, water cresses, &c. The use of these, with 
bread, and of buttermilk or wh 
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