It is highly satisfactory when one has to treat such a painful and pitiful disease as scurvy, to know that recovery is usually assured by the simple act of changing the diet, and putting the patient on plenty of fresh, soft, succulent vegetables, and from four to eight ounces of lime or lemon juice daily. Potatoes and cabbages are the best vegetables. Yams, onions, carrots, turnips, oranges, pears, and apples are also valuable. In extreme weakness, beef-tea and milk must be given in considerable quantities until the patient is able to take solid food. When he is able to chew, meat should be given. Under this dietary the symptoms rapidly improve; the swelling and bleeding of the gums disappear, the teeth become firmer and less tender, the purple patches grow paler and less painful, the tendency to faintness decreases, and the patient gains strength.

Scurvy can be prevented on long sea journeys, by each person eating daily at least eight ounces of preserved potatoes, three ounces of other preserved vegetables - carrots, onions, turnips, celery, mint and pickles, and drinking three ounces of lime juice. Among recommendations issued by the Board of Trade to shipowners is the following. Each man should have at least two ounces of lime or lemon juice twice a week, to be increased to an ounce daily, if any symptoms of scurvy manifest themselves. By following these simple dietetic instructions scurvy has been banished from our ships; and when it occurs, as in the Nares Polar expedition, it is due to direct neglect of obvious and well-known precautions.