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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… lime was popularly used as a preventative measure against scurvy. LIME JUICE was regularly traded, and lime was also … century that it was recognized as a preventative against scurvy. OED earliest date of use: 1704 Found in units of …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… MEDICINE that was a 'certain cure for the sea and land scurvy'. Originally patented by John Norton in the 1760s as …
Historical Account of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
… navy. A second and improved edition of his Observations on Scurvy appeared in 1790, in which were first applied the new … was the antidote against infectious fevers. The general scurvy which appeared in the succeeding wintet was subdued …
Middlesex county records
… sayeing to Mr. Longe 'Your authoritie set aside you are a scurvy companion,' and sayeing to him shee would bee revenged …
Calendar of State Papers and Manuscripts in the Archives and Collections of Milan
… It is suspected that this is in order to try and play some scurvy trick on Cardinal Pole. However, I do not believe that …
Calendar of Treasury Books
… for the tenants of Goring: it has a sort of weed called scurvy grass and he has kept sheep there at spring tides in …
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840
… bed Mr. Nash of Fleet Ditch has sent me I find it the most scurvy thing that ever was imposed on any body. Richard Hoare …
A History of the County of Sussex
… immediately west of New Shoreham town. 21 It was called Scurvy Bank and at times had an offshoot upstream called …
Old and New London
… Nor in each operation doth fail to please. Doth the foul scurvy fierce your gums assault? In this he also rectifies …
The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent
… near Greenwich. Cochlearia Britannica, or common English scurvy-grass, or spoonwort; on the banks of the river Thames. …