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THERE is an English seventeenth century reference to the treatment of scurvy, which, perhaps, is not so well known as it might be. John Woodall, author of “The Surgeon's Mate, or Military and Domostique Surgery”, 1639, wrote on p. 171, “juyce of lemmons was ever reputed a cold niedicine, prescribed and given daily by physicians in burning and pestilentiall fevers, and that with good reason and good successe even to this day, and yet to that notable and cold and terrible disease of the Scurvy, how excellent hath it been approved…”
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LIDDELL, E. Scurvy in the 17th and 18th Centuries. Nature 133, 67 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133067c0
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