Potato Scurvy
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This is the designation given b}7 Surgeon-Major R. Davis to a disease that he has found prevalent amongst the prisoners in the Rangoon Central Jail. The name is not meant to imply that the disease is caused by the eating of potatoes. On the contra"/ it applies to a peculiar form of scurvy that is amenable to the action of potatoes, "whereas it proves intractable to the influence of other antiscorbutics such as ordinary green vegetables, tamarind, and lime juice. No mention, however, is made of the use of onions, or of that
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