News tagged with infantile scurvy

Housewife Remedy for Scurvy Preceded Medical Discovery

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 100-page handwritten book by Mrs. Ebot Mitchell written in 1707 on household remedies contains among other things a recipe to treat scurvy. The recipe containing extracts from plants, orange ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

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