1. Prov. Med. and Surg. Jour., June 2; and Lond. Med. Gaz. Nos. 109, 110. 1847.
2. Mémoirs de l’Académie des Sciences, 1699, p. 237.
3. Two interesting cases of scurvy, with careful dissections, are recorded in Andral’sClinique Med., vol. iii. p. 466, and vol. i. p. 584, 3me edit., Paris. See alsoRouppé De Morb. Navig., andDict. des Sci. Méd., Art.Scorbut.
4. Observations on the Diseases incident to Seamen, by Gilbert Blane, M. D. London, 1785, p. 474.
5. Histoire de Louis IX. par le Sieur Joinville. As of syphilis, so of scurvy, the notices in the ancients are too vague and imperfect to enable us to say whether they had met with the disease or not. If they did meet with it, it was in thearmy of Ælius Gallus in Arabia, or in that of Germanicus in Germany.Strabon. Geograph., lib. xvi., andPlinii Hist. Nat., lib. xxv.