Dedication

pp iii-iv

PREFACE

pp v-xii

Contents

pp xiii-xvi

PART I

CHAP. I - A Critical history of the different accounts of this disease

pp 1-40

CHAP. II - Of its Several divisions, viz. into Scurvies cold and hot, acid and alcaline, &c

pp 41-61

CHAP. III - Of the distinction commonly made into a land and sea scurvy

pp 61-77

CHAP. IV - Of the Scurvy being connate, hereditary, and infectious

pp 78-82

PART II

CHAP. I - THE true causes of the disease, from observations made upon it, both at sea and land

pp 83-147

CHAP. II - The diagnostics, or signs

pp 147-175

CHAP. III - The prognostics

pp 175-179

CHAP. IV - The prophylaxis, or means of preventing this disease, especially at sea

pp 180-239

CHAP. V - The cure of the disease, and its symptoms

pp 240-272

CHAP. VI - The theory

pp 272-310

CHAP. VII - Dissections

pp 310-317

CHAP. VIII - The nature of the symptoms, explained and deduced from the foregoing theory and dissections

pp 317-340

PART III

CHAP. I - Passages in ancient authors, supposed to refer to this disease; together with the first accounts of it

pp 341-355

CHAP. II - Bibliotheca fcorbutica: or, A chronological view of what has hitherto been published on the scurvy

pp 355-444

APPENDIX

pp 445-447

A CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX

pp 448-451

An Alphabetical Index

pp 452-456