Excerpt from The British Medical Journal, Vol. 1: Being the Journal of the British Medical Association; January to June, 1865 Henry Norris, aged 50, by occupation a commercial traveller, temperate in his habits, had venereal disease twenty years ago. Up to April of this year, 1864, his health was perfectly good; at that date he suffered from what he calls scurvy - purpura of the legs (which were all the colours Of the rainbow, especially purple), profuse epistaxis, and bleeding from the mouth, throat, and gums, which were very tender the gums, he says, came entirely away from the teeth. In this condition he entered one of our Metropolitan hospitals, and was under treatment for five weeks, when he left free from all his symptoms. His doctors attributed them to want of vegetable food, and the man himself thinks that want of nourishment, and general privation, may have had a great deal to do with producing them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.