{133} CHAP. VI. _Of the Scurvy._ This Disease is known by the Ulcers of the Mouth, which are very stinking; as also by excessive Salivation, great Pains in the Head, Dizziness, frequent Epilepsies, Apoplexies, and Palsies. The Face, being of a pale red, and dark Colour, is sometimes puff'd up or bloated, inflam'd, and beset with Pustules: The Teeth are loose and ake, the Gums are swell'd, itch, putrifie, exulcerate, and are eaten with the Canker; and the Jaw is almost unmoveable: The Members are bow'd, and cannot be extended: The Patients become stupid and drowsie, so that they fetch their Breath with difficulty, are obnoxious to Palpitations of the Heart and Coughs, and fall into Swoons: The Ulcers sometimes are so malignant, that their Cheeks are entirely eaten up, and their Teeth seen: They are also much inclin'd to Vomitting, Looseness, and Gripes; and their Entrails are swell'd: They have red and livid Pustules on their Belly and Privy-parts, which sometimes break out into Ulcers; their whole Body being dry'd, _&c._ This Disease may be easily cur'd in the beginning; but when it is grown inveterate, and invades the Bowels, it becomes incurable; as well as when it is the Epidemical Disease of {134} the Country, or the Persons afflicted with it, are old, or well advanc'd in Years. In undertaking the Cure, it is requisite to begin with a good Diet, and to sweeten the Blood, let the Patient take the Broth of boil'd Fowl; eating Pullets and Eggs; in the Broth may also be put divers sorts of Antiscorbutick Herbs; _viz._ Cresses, Spinage, Parsly-Roots, Sparagus, Smallage, _Scorzonera_, Scurvy-Grass, _&c._ Let him eat nothing that is high season'd, nor acid or sharp; let him drink pure Claret, without any adulterate Mixture; let him use moderate Exercise and Rest; Lastly, let him keep his Mind sedate, and free from all manner of violent Passion. The following Remedies taken inwardly are very good for the Scurvy, _viz._ the Tincture of Flints from ten Grains to thirty; Diaphoretick Antimony, from six Grains to thirty; sweet Sublimate, from six Grains to thirty; _Mars Diaphoreteus_, from ten Grains to twenty; _Crocus Martis Aperitivus_, from ten Grains to two Scruples; prepar'd Coral, from ten Grains to one Dram; Volatile Spirit of _Sal Ammoniack_, from six Drops to twenty; Water of Cresses, from fifteen Drops to one Dram; Spirit of Scurvy-grass, from ten Drops to one Dram; Tincture of Antimony, from four Drops to twenty; Oily Volatile _Sal Ammoniack_, from four Grains to fifteen; Spirit of _Guyacum_, from half a Dram to a Dram and a half; Vitrioliz'd _Tartar_, from ten Grains to thirty; the Volatile Salt of _Tartar_, Urine, Vipers, and Hart's-Horn, of each from six Grains to fifteen; the Spirit of Gum _Ammoniack_, from eight Drops to sixteen; White {135} _Mercury_ Precipitate, from four to ten Grains; _Mercurial Panacæa_, from six Grains to two Scruples. We shall shew the manner of compounding 'em in our Treatise of Venereal Diseases.