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At the sign of the moon and stars in Leopard's Court in Baldwins-Gardens near Holborn, lives a gentleman, who by the benefit of a learned education in the University of Louvain, daily study and 30 years practice and travels : has arrived to a greater perfection in several arts than the common practioners in physick and astrology can justly pretend to.
Date: [1690?]
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M0002829: Nude man from back showing symptoms of Scurvy
Date: 03 March 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/23/90
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Date: c. 1700Reference: MS.5431
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Outlines of a course of lectures on the practice of medicine : as delivered in the medical school of Guy's Hospital, / By William Babington, ... and James Curry.
William BabingtonDate: 1802-6
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A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield.
Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.Date: 1819
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Date: 1777-1940Reference: MS.7430
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At the blew ball in Great Knight-Rider-Street, by Doctors Commons Back Gate : liveth a physitian which hath a pill far beyond any medicament yet ever known, or at least published; which cureth those diseases so many pretend to, and so few do understand, called the French Pox, and gonnorhea.
Date: [1680?]
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Collected writings / Alfred F. Hess.
Alfred Fabian HessDate: 1936
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Dissertatio inauguralis medica, sistens arthriticum scorbuticum doloribus vagis gravissimis liberatum ... / respondens Emanuel Augustus Lezius.
Lezius, Emanuel Augustus.Date: [1719]
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An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships, etc. with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: in two letters to a friend / by Samuel Sutton.
Sutton, SamuelDate: 1749
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Pray vouchsafe it the reading over elixir stomachicum: or, the great cordial elixir for the stomach : of a delicate flavour, and pleasing (tho' bitterish) taste, not purging but cordial.
Stoughton, Richard, 1665-1716Date: [1700?]
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Anschauungen über Skorbut in Dissertationen der ersten Hälfte des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts / von Udo Birkenkamp.
Birkenkamp, Udo, 1944-Date: 1976
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Scurvy : the disease of discovery / Jonathan Lamb ; with a coda written by James May and Fiona Harrison.
Jonathan LambDate: [2017]
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis de scorbuto / [George Dunbar].
Dunbar, GeorgiusDate: 1789
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The Budds of North Tawton : a 19th century Devon medical family / Ann Adams.
Adams, AnnDate: 2010
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In Grays-Inn-Lane in Plow-Yard, the third door, lives Dr. Thomas Kirleus, a collegiate physician, and sworn physician in ordinary to King Charles the second, until his death : who with a drink and a pill (hindring no business) undertakes to cure any ulcers, sores, swellings in the nose, face, or other parts, scabs, itch, scurfs, leprosies, and venereal disease, expecting nothing until the cure be finished ... a better purger than which was never given, for they cleanse the body of all impurities, which are the causes of dropsies, gouts, scurvies, stone or gravel, pains in the head, and other parts ... he cures all fevers and hot distempers without bleeding, except in few bodies. He gives his opinion to all that writes or comes for nothing.
Kirleus, ThomasDate: 1693
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Physical dissertations on the scurvy and gout; in which the cause, nature, and remedy are more immediately attended to; with observations on the Bath and other medicinal waters; interspersed with remarks on diet, air, exercise. And the mineral and vegitable medicines used in the cure of those disorders. With a selection of sixty remarkable cures ... / By Francis Spilsbury, chymist.
Spilsbury, FrancisDate: 1779
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Philosophical conjectures on aereal influences, the probable origin of diseases: with an unusual cure in the scurvy / Address'd to Dr. Shaw, by E-m-d L-tt-n [i.e. Edmund Litton].
Litton, EdmundDate: 1747
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Baldwin's Herbal Blood Pills: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 668924i
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M0002834: Nude infant showing symptoms of Scurvy / M0002834EB: X-ray of a rib cage
Date: 03 March 1932Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/23/95
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'The English disease' : infantile rickets and scurvy in pre-industrial England / Valerie A. Fildes.
Fildes, Valerie A.Date: 1986
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Contributions to the pathology and treatment of the scorbutus, which is at present prevalent in various parts of Scotland / by Charles Ritchie.
Ritchie, Charles, 1798-1878.Date: 1847
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An enquiry into the source from whence the symptoms of the scurvy and of putrid fevers, arise; and into the seat which those affections occupy in the animal oeconomy; with a view of ascertaining a more just idea of putrid diseases than has generally been formed of them / by Francis Milman.
Sir Francis Milman, 1st BaronetDate: 1782
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Over against the Golden-Faulcken in French-Alley in Goswel-Street, near Old-Street, liveth a chymist that prepareth that famous cordial spirit : which is daily approved by several people to be of great virtue: It takes away the scurvy out of the body, root and branch, and the dropsie to admiration.
Date: [1685?]
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De lue venerea et de scorbuto praelectiones / auctore Francisco Bagno.
Francisco BagnoDate: MDCCLXXXVIII [1788]

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English Recipe Book

Outlines of a course of lectures on the practice of medicine : as delivered in the medical school of Guy's Hospital, / By William Babington, ... and James Curry.

A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield.

Miscellany: English, chiefly 19th-20th centuries

At the blew ball in Great Knight-Rider-Street, by Doctors Commons Back Gate : liveth a physitian which hath a pill far beyond any medicament yet ever known, or at least published; which cureth those diseases so many pretend to, and so few do understand, called the French Pox, and gonnorhea.

Collected writings / Alfred F. Hess.

Dissertatio inauguralis medica, sistens arthriticum scorbuticum doloribus vagis gravissimis liberatum ... / respondens Emanuel Augustus Lezius.

An historical account of a new method for extracting the foul air out of ships, etc. with the description and draught of the machines, by which it is performed: in two letters to a friend / by Samuel Sutton.

Pray vouchsafe it the reading over elixir stomachicum: or, the great cordial elixir for the stomach : of a delicate flavour, and pleasing (tho' bitterish) taste, not purging but cordial.

Anschauungen über Skorbut in Dissertationen der ersten Hälfte des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts / von Udo Birkenkamp.

Scurvy : the disease of discovery / Jonathan Lamb ; with a coda written by James May and Fiona Harrison.

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de scorbuto / [George Dunbar].

The Budds of North Tawton : a 19th century Devon medical family / Ann Adams.

Philosophical conjectures on aereal influences, the probable origin of diseases: with an unusual cure in the scurvy / Address'd to Dr. Shaw, by E-m-d L-tt-n [i.e. Edmund Litton].

Baldwin's Herbal Blood Pills: advertisement. Lithograph, 19--.

M0002834: Nude infant showing symptoms of Scurvy / M0002834EB: X-ray of a rib cage

'The English disease' : infantile rickets and scurvy in pre-industrial England / Valerie A. Fildes.

Contributions to the pathology and treatment of the scorbutus, which is at present prevalent in various parts of Scotland / by Charles Ritchie.

An enquiry into the source from whence the symptoms of the scurvy and of putrid fevers, arise; and into the seat which those affections occupy in the animal oeconomy; with a view of ascertaining a more just idea of putrid diseases than has generally been formed of them / by Francis Milman.

Over against the Golden-Faulcken in French-Alley in Goswel-Street, near Old-Street, liveth a chymist that prepareth that famous cordial spirit : which is daily approved by several people to be of great virtue: It takes away the scurvy out of the body, root and branch, and the dropsie to admiration.

De lue venerea et de scorbuto praelectiones / auctore Francisco Bagno.