"Scorbutical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the approaching end of some friend or kinsman. Another Danish name was Doedninge-pletter (dead man's spots); and in Holberg's Peder Paars (book i. song, 4.) Doedning-knaep. See S. Aspach, Dissertatio de Variis Superstitionibus, 4to., Hafniae, 1697, p. 7., who says they are of scorbutic origin; and F. Oldenburg, Om Gjenfaerd ellen Gjengangere, 8vo., ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 • Various
... encased in cat's-skin sable gloves, showing that he was a gentleman who liked to be comfortable. Thus accoutred, he rode down Broad Street at Laverick Wells, looking like a fine, faithful old family servant, with a slight scorbutic affection of the nose. He had everything correctly arranged in true sporting marching order. The collar-shanks were neatly coiled under the headstalls, the clothing tightly rolled and balanced above the little saddle-bags on the led horse, 'Multum in Parvo's' back, ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... proved the correctness of Mr. Bloundel's judgment. While the scourge continued weekly to extend its ravages throughout the city, it never crossed his threshold; and, except suffering in a slight degree from scorbutic affections, occasioned by the salt meats to which they were now confined, and for which the lemon and lime-juice, provided against such a contingency, proved an efficacious remedy, all the family enjoyed perfect ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Capon, sedative and scorbutic, was indicated for rheumatisms of every kind, not excluding sprained limbs, hydrophobia, lycanthropy, black choler, oppilations and ...
— South Wind • Norman Douglas
... Vitriol," which they not only "reckoned the best general medicine next to rhubarb," but pinned their faith to as a sovereign specific for scurvy and fevers. [Footnote: Admiralty Records 1. 161—Admiral Vernon, 31 Oct. 1741.] Lime-juice, known as a valuable anti-scorbutic as early as the days of Drake and Raleigh, was not added to his rations till 1795. He did not find it very palatable. The secret of fortifying it was unknown, and oil had to be floated on its surface to make it keep. Sour-crout ...
— The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore • John R. Hutchinson
... by an officer who brought from Bombay a batch of sparrows and crows. The former died, scorbutic I presume; the latter lingered through an unhappy life, and to judge from the absence of young, refused to entail their miseries ...
— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton
... was diagnosed as, the usual malarial fever, accompanied in many cases with scorbutic symptoms, which they called "black canker," due to a lack of vegetable food. In and around Winter Quarters there were more than 600 burials before cold weather set in, and 334 out of a population ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn
... broth, every day for breakfast; and with pease and broth for dinner. Experience had taught him, that the vegetables now mentioned, when thus dressed, are extremely beneficial to seamen, in removing the various scorbutic complaints to which ...
— Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, • A. Kippis |
