Such symptoms were often present, when the bleeding gums, and other more serious and decided indications of the poison were absent. 8CUHVY. The omission, before to, with regard to the distribution of lime juice, had a great influence on the development and progress of this dyscrasial disease. with salt food, if a sufficiency of anti-scorbutic remedies had been provided, such as well-preserved vegetables, in default of potatoes, or other fivsh legumes, lime. or sour-crout, or, if the large cabbage of Turkey, greatly praised ly the natives, had been freely distributed, the ravages of this affection might have been prevented yed. Who can calculate the number of lives which were sacrificed indirectly, if not directly, through such! for this scurvy was our worst enemy, and, in truth, wrested from us more wounded men than even the conical The French used the indigenous dandelion largely, and if the perseverance of their soldiers in it in every recess of the plateau was recompensed by its effects, they must have benefited largely by its use.
Iron appeared to me to have more uvcr this disease than any of our other remedies. Under its use the blood assumed a more normal condi; the health of the patient greatly improved. The Fivnch put irrcat faith in the external, as well as internal, use of lemons. The influence of scurvy in thai curious eye affection, hcmeralopia. was meed. It appeared at an early dale among the M.-h fruit aa applet could have been procured for the troops in Urge quantities, it is a pity the authorities were unmindful <>f thence of Virgil, who tells us, in th. Jud Georgic, v. 130, of the ". 11 quo non pnesentius till urn ac raembrw agit atra vcncna." Sardinians, and was not uncommon with us.
Its connection with deficient nutrition, or with a degenerated condition of the blood, was thus rendered apparent. Of iliurrlui'a and 52,442 cases were admitted into hospital during the war, and 5,910, or 11*26 per cent, died; while of these, 23,149 cases, and 1,999 deaths occurred in the Crimea before April, 1855. The presence of scurvy, the use of irritating food, together with the labour and exposure, sufficiently account for this high mortality. Dr. Tholozau tells us, that 700 or 800 out of a total of 1,200 cases which fell under his observation in the Pera hospital, during the winter of 1854-5, had suffered from diarrhoea or dysentery at the outset of their several ailments. In a third of these cases blood had been passed, and in seventy-nine autopsies the large intestines were engaged sixty-three times, the small forty-two times, and the stomach thirty-eight times.