Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Katarina Villner

  • “And of scurvy the teeth fall out of them”

    Katarina Villner Stockholm, Sweden And of scurvy the teeth fall out of them; for scurvy and throat diseases I have used lemons as long I had any left, for as soon as I came down I bought 200 lemons from a Dutch ship and he had no more.1   Henrik Fleming, a Swedish nobleman, wrote…