Scurvy, Past and Present

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The book contains numerous spelling inconsistencies. No change has been made to those representing archaic spellings (e.g. somethimes, urin, feavers, joynts) and those occurring in quotations. Spelling variants occurring with similar frequency have been left in their original form (e.g. RÖntgen/Roentgen, rachitic/rhachitic, albumen/albumin – the correct spellings is used for egg albumen but both are used randomly for serum/urine albumin). Most other spelling inconsistencies have been changed to the more-frequent or more-accurate form (e.g. twofold→two-fold, guinea pig→guinea-pig, oedema→edema, neuroedema→neuredema, gm.→g., Luborsch→Lubarsch, Bauman→Baumann, McCluggage→McClugage, Eijkmann→Eijkman). Although the spelling of 'fÆces' and its adjective 'fecal' is not consistent, the two spellings are used consistently throughout the book and therefore have not been altered. Similarly 'hemorrhage' and 'hemoglobin' are consistently spelt thus, while other words pertaining to blood consistently use the Æ ligature, e.g. 'hÆmatemesis', 'hÆmatoma', 'hÆmaturia', 'leukÆmia', 'hyperÆmia'.

Wrong or missing French accents and typos have been corrected where necessary. German expressions in the bibliography contain various apparent inconsistencies that have not been changed because of my unfamiliarity with the language and what was perhaps legitimate at the time of writing (e.g. Moeller-Barlow'sche Krankheit, Moeller-Barlow'scher Krankheit, Moeller-Barlowscher Krankheit and Barlow'schen Krankheit; Muench. med. Woch., Muenchn. med. Woch. and Muenschner med. Woch.; BeitrÄge z., Beitraege zur, Beitrag zur). The term Gernest-mark on p. 108 should probably be geruestmark (or perhaps gerÜstmark) as used elsewhere in the book (pp. 96, 107, 108 and 128).

The book also contains numerous hyphenation inconsistencies. Some of these have been altered to conform with the most common usage in the text, but most have not been changed because hyphenation is notoriously variable and subject to fashion.

Subheading use is somewhat inconsistent; for example, under the subheading Alimentary Tract in chapter IV, there appear various non-alimentary items, and in the same chapter Microscopic Pathology appears as a stand-alone subheading whilst its equivalent Gross Pathology is relegated to an in-line paragraph introduction.

The bibliography contains two very similar references attributed to Gee. The second appears to be a duplicate of the first, but it is probable that the title is incorrect because the publication details (1889, XXV, 85) relate to a different paper by Gee entitled ‘Bloody Urine the Only Sign of Infantile Scurvy’, and although there are several comments in the book about scurvy and haematuria (blood in the urine), e.g. p. 204, none cite Gee's paper.

The second entry for Morse, J. L. in the bibliography should be numbered as (2) and the source should be Boston Med. and Surg. Journal, 1914, CLXX, 504. (not Jour. Am. Med. Assn.)

Inconsistent punctuation in the bibliography list has been corrected (e.g. semicolon→colon).

SCURVY
PAST AND PRESENT

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