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- noun obsolete
scurvy
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Examples
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AND MOURIQUAND, G.: Recherches sur le scorbut experimental.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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AND MICHEL, P.: Le scorbut experimentale du cobaye, est-il du constipation.
The Vitamine Manual Walter H. Eddy
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28 Champlain observed that Cartier mistakenly thought that the “mal de scorbut” was a “mal de terre” in North America.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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28 Champlain observed that Cartier mistakenly thought that the “mal de scorbut” was a “mal de terre” in North America.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“Lutte originale de Champlain contre le scorbut: ‘l’Ordre de Bon Temps,’” Vie médicale au Canada français 1 1972; not seen.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“Lutte originale de Champlain contre le scorbut: ‘l’Ordre de Bon Temps,’” Vie médicale au Canada français 1 1972; not seen.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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“On voit par cette relation que monsieur le consultant dont on n’a pas juge a propos de dire l’age, mais qui nous paroit etre adulte et d’un age passablement avance, a ete sujet cy devant a des rhumes frequens accompagnes de fievre; on ne detaille point (aucune epoque), on parle dans la relation d’asthme auquel il a ete sujet, de scorbut ou affection scorbutique dont on ne dit pas les symptomes.
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_scorbut_; though Mr. Ray thinks otherwise, by reason of the saccharine substance remaining in the decoction: See _Synops.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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Alors, en effet, le terrible scorbut avoit commence ses ravages, et les salaisons pourries et rongees de vers auxquelles nous etions reduits depuis plusieurs mois precipitoient chaque jour l'affreux developpement de ce fleau. "
Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903
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Helmont shews how to make a beer of the water; but the wine is a most rich cordial, curing (as I am told) consumptions, and such interior diseases as accompany the stone in the bladder or reins {152: 1}: The juice decocted with honey and wine, Dr. Needham affirms he has often cur’d the scorbut with.
Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663
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