Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1905 — An Old Cu[?] for Scurvy. [ARTICLE]

An Old Cu[?] for Scurvy.

Scurvy used td be regularly treated when it was possible by burying the patients up to -tlieir necks in fresh earth, a practice officially recommended in the British navy' less than a century ago. Twenty of the crew of the frigate Blonde were so treated on the shore of Donna Maria Bay. Santo Domingo,. IlOies were dug in the softest soil on the beach. Into each of these a man was put and buried to ids chin; while a,detachment of their shipmates was told off to keep the Hies from tlieir faces. They were kept in this position for twtf hours, and the treatment was so effective tha t four days later all the sufferers were able to rejoin the-frigate.