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share in producing several of the phenomena of scurvy ; but a 

 preternaturally saline, and consequently dissolved state of the 

 blood, will account for them with more probability : and I do 

 not think it necessary, to persons who are at all accustomed to 

 reason upon the animal economy, to explain this matter more 

 fully. I have only to add, that if my opinion in supposing the 

 proximate cause of scurvy to be a preternaturally saline state of 

 the blood, be at all founded, it will be sufficiently obvious, that 

 the throwing into the body along with the aliment an unusual 

 quantity of salt, may have a great share in producing the dis- 

 ease. Even supposing such salt to suffer no change in the ani- 

 mal body, the effect of it may be considerable ; and this will 

 be rendered still more probable, if it may be presumed, that all 

 neutral salts, consisting of a fixed alkali, are changed in the 

 animal body into an ammoniacal salt ; which I apprehend to be 

 that especially prevailing in scurvy. If I be at all right in c6n- 

 cluding, that meats, from being salted, contribute to the pro- 

 duction of scurvy, it will readily appear how dangerous it may 

 be to admit the conclusion from another theory, that they are 

 perfectly innocent. 



MDCCCXIV. Having thus endeavoured to explain what 

 relates to the cure of scurvy in general, I judge it proper to 

 leave to other authors, what relates to the management of those 

 symptoms which require a particular treatment. 



CHAP. IV. OF JAUNDICE. 



MDCCCXV. I have here passed over several of the titles 

 in my nosology, because they are diseases not of this island. In 

 these, therefore, I have no experience ; and without that, the 

 compiling from other writers is always extremely fallacious. 

 For these reasons I omit them ; and shall now only offer some 

 remarks upon the subject of jaundice, the last in order that I 

 can possibly introduce in my course of Lectures. 



MDCCCXVI. The jaundice consists in a yellow colour of 

 the skin over the whole body, and particularly of the adnata of 



