The Collaborative International Dictionary
Antiscorbutic \An`ti*scor*bu"tic\, a. (Med.) Counteracting scurvy. -- n. A remedy for scurvy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (label en medicine) preventing or curing scurvy n. A medicine that prevents or cures scurvy.
Usage examples of "antiscorbutic".
Chemically the Potato contains citric acid, like that of the lemon, which is admirable against scurvy: also potash, which is equally antiscorbutic, and phosphoric acid, yielding phosphorus in a quantity less only than that afforded by the apple, and by wheat.
The special dietetic value of Lemons consists in their potash salts, the citrate, malate, and tartrate, which are respectively antiscorbutic, and of assistance in promoting biliary digestion.
If eaten in its fresh state, as a salad, it is the most effectual of all the antiscorbutic plants, the leaves being admirable also to cure swollen and spongy gums.
If eaten as a salad in its fresh state it is the most effectual of all the antiscorbutic plants.
An infusion made with water will bring out the antiscorbutic virtues of the plant which are specially aromatic, and cordial.
Invalids have often preferred this plant to the Scurvy grass as an antiscorbutic remedy.
Formerly this herb was highly valued as an antiscorbutic, and was thought a most desirable pot herb.
The root is expectorant, antiscorbutic, and, if taken at all freely, emetic.
A manufactory for making candied roots of the Sea Holly was established at Colchester, by Robert Burton, an apothecary, in the seventeenth century, as they were considered both antiscorbutic, and excellent for health.
We should walk briskly, pausing only for a few important measurements and almost certainly making valuable discoveries about springs of fresh water, mineral ores, antiscorbutic vegetables and the like.
White and his able young assistant surgeons had found antiscorbutic herbs and fruits growing wild, to which all but the most obstinate cases eventually yielded, and these were now being grown in the hospital garden.
A far less keen-sighted man than Jack Aubrey could tell from half a mile that they were carrying not antiscorbutics but some such creature as a sloth or a wombat.
In this ship, where there is often dancing on the forecastle, and stage-plays, and an excellent band, we have almost no sickness: in the three ships I have mentioned, where the diet, the wind-sails and the antiscorbutics are exactly the same, the surgeons have their hands full.
It was one of their best antiscorbutics, and was of course a prime factor in their use of "sour krout," pickling, etc.
Scurvy wasn't something the IMC normally had to worry about, but it was just as lethal as it had ever been for humans deprived of antiscorbutics.