Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Swedish nobleman

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

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