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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… (1706)] while the other was said to be 'the best Cure for Scurvy of the Gums that ever was invented' [Newspapers …
Survey of London
… The greatest scourge was the 'Scorbutick Distemper [scurvy] which few escape, some dieing a lingering miserable …
Diary of Thomas Burton esq
… does not amount to a challenge. It is a coarse business; scurvy language; a thing in itself less ingenuous than a …
Old and New London
… mayor took six of the twelve fowls, called the purveyor a scurvy knave, and threatened him with the biggest pair of …
The Manuscripts of Rye and Hereford Corporations, etc.
… respect for you and your family than myself. Nothing but a scurvy state of health could have hindred me from the …
Old and New London
… infinite annoyance, had let out the same to various other scurvy fellows, who insisted on enclosing the arable land, …
A History of the County of Lancaster
… salt. This water . . . is of great use in the stone and scurvy.' The other springs noticed were at Burnley and …
Trinity House of Deptford Transactions, 1609-35
… early 18th century physician advocated its use to combat scurvy (J. J. Keevil, Medicine and the navy, ii (1963), 266) …
The Barrington Papers
… of it on the Sick, more especially those aflicted with the Scurvy, and report to them at the end of every cruize their …