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Scurvy, Past and Present

Note 31 — Chapter IV · PATHOLOGY

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Lind writes: “In the months of July and August I opened near seventy large swellings in the groin, proceeding entirely from scurvy.” . . . “We found the glands under their arm-pits much enlarged and surrounded with purulent matter, as well as the muscles of their arms and thighs.” . . . “The glands of the mesentery are generally obstructed and swelled. Some of these were found partly corrupted and imposthumated.”

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