Note 6 — BOOK IX.
Reading edition
—Page 348, stanza xiii.
While the dire pest-scourge of the frozen zone.
Though the fearful disease known by the name of the scurvy is not peculiar to the northern latitudes; and Dr. Budd has ably disproved (in the Library of Practical Medicine) the old theory that it originated in cold and moisture; yet the disease was known in the north of Europe from the remotest ages, while no mention is made of its appearance in more genial climates before the year 1260.