Scorbutic ulcers broke out on Flinders' feet, so that he was no longer able to station himself at his customary observation-point, the mast-head.
In such cases, vegetable diet, with vegetable acids, would remove the scorbutic condition without curing the hospital gangrene.
A scorbutic condition of the system appeared to favor the origin of foul ulcers, which frequently took on true hospital gangrene.
Such aliment would have been not only highly nutritious, but it would also have acted as an efficient remedial agent for the removal of the scorbutic condition.
I observed also numerous cases of hospital gangrene, and of spreading scorbutic ulcers, which had supervened upon slight injuries.
So commonly have those two diseases been combined in their origin and action, that the description of scorbutic ulcers, by many authors, evidently includes also many of the prominent characteristics of hospital gangrene.
Many ulcers which originated from the scorbutic condition of the system appeared to become truly gangrenous, assuming all the characteristics of hospital gangrene.
Those afflicted with the gravel ought to avoid every thing astringent; and the scorbutic of every description, salted or smoked provisions.
It makes a rich and salutary cordial, and its virtues are much relied on in consumptive and scorbutic cases.
The juice expressed from the stem and leaves of goose-grass, taken to the amount of four ounces, night and morning for several weeks, is very efficacious in scorbutic complaints, and other cutaneous eruptions.
There is always great difficulty in preserving the good qualities of fresh meat in hot climes, and, on the other hand, the use of salt meat in the same regions is apt to engender scorbutic disorders.
They required the treatment, practised with success in India, for those fluxes which are marked by a scorbutic state of the system--potatoes and lime juice.
The prevailing diarrhoea and scorbutic condition were the results of the want of food and the combined influences of the bad air and water, and not the primary causes of the feebleness and death.
The scorbutic ulcers presented a dark purple fungoid, elevated surface, with livid swollen edges, exuded a thin, fetid sanious fluid, instead of pus.
We had both been vaccinated and had great scorbutic ulcers in our arms, but he, poor fellow, had gangrene which soon ate away his life.
I observed also numerous cases of hospital gangrene and of spreading scorbutic ulcers, which had supervened upon slight injuries.
Amputation of a limb was not a cure for these cases; new scorbutic ulcers appeared, again gangrene supervened, and death was the almost inevitable result.
In thousands of cases of scurvy where scorbutic ulcers had broken out, gangrene supervened and the poor prisoner soon found surcease of pain, and misery, and starvation, in the grave.
A scorbutic condition of the system appeared to favor the origin of foul ulcers which frequently took on true hospital gangrene.
Rouse, and myself of my company, and Sergeant Roselle Hull of Company B, were alike afflicted with dysentery and scurvy, and each had a large scorbutic ulcer on his arm.
A scorbutic epidemic was already fast emptying the dungeons.
One of the arteries, beginning at the joints of the hand, began to pain him, extending to other parts of his body; and then turned into a scorbutic sore.
Scorbutic patients are an exception, they often crave for sweetmeats and jams.
Of course he was greatly indebted to the experienced botanists on board, who were able to discover any anti-scorbutic plants grown on the shores they visited.
Notwithstanding the length of time the crew had been at sea previous to their arrival at the Marquesas, yet, owing to the abundant supply of anti-scorbutic food, and the watchful care of the surgeon, there was not a man seriously ill on board.
Throughout his journals notices constantly occur which show that whenever anti-scorbutic vegetables, or herbs of any sort, were required, he did not entrust the search to others, but went himself to look for them.
Captain Cook had, in his former voyage, paid great attention to the means best adapted for preserving the health of his crew, and he had seen the importance of having an ample supply of provisions of an anti-scorbutic character.
When we arrived, all our people began to look pale and meagre; many had the scurvy to a great degree, and upon others there were manifest signs of its approach; yet in a fortnight there was not a scorbutic person in either of the ships.
Change in the Teeth of the Guinea-pig Produced by a Scorbutic Diet, Proceed.
The Influence of the Scorbutic Diet on Adrenal Gland, Indian Jour.
We have met with eight cases of eczema in infantile scurvy, which, in almost every instance, have yielded promptly to an antiscorbutic, thus proving their scorbutic nature.
There is almost nothing in the realm of therapy which is so striking as a scorbutic patient's prompt reaction to antiscorbutic treatment.
The question has been raised whether this rarification is to be considered entirely of scorbutic origin.
Even a short extension of the period of extra-uterine dieting on milk from scorbutic mothers, and later on oats and water, is sufficient to change the latent scurvy into a highly-pronounced case.
It was stated at that time that a general scorbutic taint pervaded the troops--a mere euphemism for the widespread existence of subacute or latent scurvy.
The scorbutic changes in the skeleton are greatest in the earlier embryonic stages.
This loss is due partly to the scorbutic condition, but to a greater extent to starvation occasioned by a marked lack of appetite.
In all other respects scurvy in the monkey resembles that in the guinea-pig, even to the extent of the scorbutic rosary of the lower true ribs.
The situation which Enright describes in Cairo among the Turkish prisoners suffering from war edema, where there was "evidently a scorbutic factor involved," probably held true for many other parts of the world.
It should be realized that, at the present time, it is not possible to distinguish between local symptoms which are truly nutritional or scorbutic in nature, and those which are bacterial and of secondary origin.
This fruit was common to all the isles; but apples we got only at Otaheite, and found them of infinite use to the scorbutic people.
By this means, they had been mostly on a fresh diet for the three preceding months; and at this time, we had neither a sick nor scorbutic man on board.
Some cyder which he happened to have, and which he gave to the scorbutic people, contributed not a little to this happy change.
Saloup and rob of lemons and oranges were for the sick and scorbutic only, and wholly under the surgeon's care.
All this had naturally thrown him into a most scorbutic habit, for which last summer he went to Scarborough, but stayed there only a month, which would not have cleansed a scorbutic kitten.
When we arrived in this bay, we had just twelve men in each watch, and half that number, from scorbutic contractions in their limbs, were not able to go aloft.
There was a good deal of sickness in the French camp, and one regiment was said to have suffered as much from scorbutic diseases as any of our own, and to have ceased to exist, like the 63rd Regiment.
The same may be said of Chapter XXII, in which the author speaks of scorbutic affections and of their treatment.
In cases of scorbutic stomatitis, Bunon advises, and very rightly, the complete removal of tartar from the teeth before having recourse to any other local treatment.
In certain cases its cause is unknown, in others it depends on an affection of the gums, either of a scorbutic nature or consequent on an accumulation of tartar.
A gentleman who is subject to a scorbutic eruption in his face, for which he has used a variety of remedies with no very beneficial effect, has lately applied the fumes of chalk and oil of vitriol to the parts affected.
Many scorbutic cases, however, lack this so-called pathognomonic feature.
It is therefore most probable that the cases entered upon the sick reports of both armies as typhus fever were in almost every case, if not in all, cases of typhoid fever occurring in scorbutic subjects.
The Swelling of the Feet and Ancles seemed at first Sight rather gouty or rheumatic, than of the scorbutic Kind; but from the Man's Way of Life, and the Disorder being so frequent, we discovered it to be the Scurvy.
I saw him well the last Week in May; and he told me, he had had no scorbutic Symptom since he left the Hospital.
By these Means, in a Fortnight's Time, his Gums became firmer, and his scorbutic Symptoms decreased.
In February and March, seven or eight more scorbutic Patients were sent to the Hospital I attended, who were all treated in the same Manner; and all did well.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scorbutic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
