Description of Scurvy Symptoms by Francis Glisson (1651)

Francis Glisson. A treatise of the rickets. London, 1651. This is the section describing symptoms of scurvy on pages 249-250. The scurvy complicated with this affect hath these signs: 1. They that labor under this affect do impatiently endure Purgations ; but they who are only affected with the Rachites do easily tolerate the same. 2. They are much offended with violent exercises, neither can they at all endure them. But although in this affect alone, ther be a kind of slothfulness and aversation from exercise, yet exercise doth not so manifestly, at least not altogether so manifestly hurt them, as when the Scurvy is conjoyned with the Rachites. 3. Upon any concitated and vehement motion they draw not breath without much difficulty, they are vexed with divers pains running through their Joynts, and these they give warning of by their crying, the motion of the Puls is frequent and unequal, and somtimes they are troubled with a Palpitation of the Heart, or threatned with a Lypothymie, which Affects ar for the most part soon mitigated, or altogether apeased by laying them down to the rest. 4. Tumors do very commonly appear in the Gums. 5. The urin upon the absence of the accustomed Feaver is much more intens and encreased. This text is extracted from https://archive.org/details/b30335693/page/248/mode/2up See the originals on the following pages. Other sources for the book: https://archive.org/details/b30327246 https://archive.org/details/b30329589 https://archive.org/details/bim_early-english-books-1641-1700_a-treatise-of-the-ricke_glisson-francis_1668 https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qn24bpgf https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A86032.0001.001 https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2412688W/A_treatise_of_the_rickets