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Usage examples of scurvy.

It learned from a monk how to use antimony, from a Jesuit how to cure agues, from a friar how to cut for stone, from a soldier how to treat gout, from a sailor how to keep off scurvy, from a postmaster how to sound the Eustachian tube, from a dairy-maid how to prevent small-pox, and from an old marketwoman how to catch the itch-insect.

Invalids have often preferred this plant to the Scurvy grass as an antiscorbutic remedy.

Hence, it frequently accompanies purpura or land scurvy and rheumatism.

Strength of the Scorching Sun stinks and poisons the distrest Mariners, who are rendered unactive, and disabled by Scurvies, raging and mad with Calentures and Fevers, and drop into Death in such a Manner, that at last the Living are lost, for Want of the Dead, that is, for want of Hands to work the Ship.

Nentres of Garlot am I, and I come To fight with thee if thou wilt league with me Against the wittol that has filched the crown Of England, backed by scurvy sorcery.

The juice of young agave leaves is also used medicinally when signs of impending scurvy are detected.

Malo on the day when I was examining there the relics of the vessel which Cartier was obliged to leave in the Canadian river, because so many of his men had died of scurvy and exposure that he had not sufficient crew to man the three ships home.

So now your scurvy is still mild whereas the others are constantly hemorrhaging, their bowels diarrhetic, their eyes sore and rheumy, and their teeth lost or loose in their heads.

When Pistol appears, Fluellen, with mock politeness, greets him as a scurvy, lousy knave.

Reid Senior had combined these resources to grow the tart, round marshberries that were prized by sailors for staving off scurvy and by healers as a key ingredient in many of their preparations.

They had mastwood and they had scurvy and the High Arm is easily accessible by sea.

The fresh juice of Oranges is antiseptic, and will prevent scurvy if taken in moderation daily.

Its beneficial uses in scurvy, are due to the potash salts which it contains.

For Les Six not only inveigled the assembled gentlemen of Pryggia and Ozar into a turbulent drinking contest, but then, drunkenness rampant, proceeded to embellish their respective insults with such rococo flourishes, such baroque ornamentation, as to produce in but two minutes such a brawl as would shame the lowest alehouses of the scurviest ports in the world.

Scurvy, the worst enemy of Polar expeditions, must be kept off at all costs, and to achieve this it was my intention to use fresh meat every day.